This Week’s Best: A Grand Tudor and a Couple Craftsman Gems

It was a quiet week, more of a back-to-school week than a let’s-sell-the-house week.

The best new listing is in High Point’s Emerywood neighborhood. If there’s a more attention-getting house for sale in High Point than 427 Woodbrook Drive, I’d love to see it. The Alex and Adele Rankin House is a grand Tudor Revival on a big lot, white with yellowish-brown half-timbers, shutters and trim. It’s for sale at $950,000; at 3,753 square feet, the price is $253/square foot, relatively reasonable for a house like this these days. Built in 1924, it has a grand vaulted Tudor living room and period color tile in the bathrooms.

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4 Historic Homes, for Sale for Years, that Just Haven’t Sold

Here are four historic homes that have been for sale for a conspicuously long time. They include a very historic 1798 National Register property in Forsyth County, an 1870 house in historic Milton, an intriguing 1898 mansion in Troy and a 1925 mansion in Greensboro’s Irving Park.

There are a variety of reasons why thy haven’t sold. Some are obvious — $600 per square foot is awfully high for any house, and Milton and Troy are a little remote from the hotter real-estate markets in the state. But the Greensboro house is a mystery. Click on the links for the complete listings.

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