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6 Historic Houses, All Still For Sale After 6 Months or More

July 7, 2024

Even though interest rates have chilled the housing market, there are still historic homes that sell as soon as they’re put up for sale, sometimes at irrational prices (like this one and this one — great houses, quick sales, wild prices). And, then, there are those that don’t. Here are six historic homes that have been listed for more than six months, all unsold.

In some cases, it’s easy to see why. Some of these are mansions — houses 4,000 square feet and up. They typically take longer to sell than more reasonably sized homes, although a few here and there sell quite quickly (especially in Winston-Salem). Sometimes price is an obvious reason, even in these days of $350 or $400 per square foot for bungalows. In other cases, it’s impossible to tell from the listings what the problem is. And with old houses, there’s no end to the possibilities.

Click on the links for more information about each house.

The Five Most Interesting historic Homes sold in March in the Triad

April 3, 2024

February’s most interesting houses date from 1850 to 1919. Four represent some of the finer homes in the Triad’s smaller communities of Coleridge, Mount Airy, Mount Gilead and Mocksville. Their earliest known owners include a dentist, a mechanical engineer, a physician-turned-mill-owner and a register of deeds, Two of the houses were listed in February; their sales closed in less than a month. Two were listed last summer, and one wasn’t listed publicly.

The 5 Most Interesting Historic Homes Sold in January

February 1, 2024

A Mid-Century gem, a house most likely designed by Willard Northup and a Glencoe Mill Village house are among the most notable historic homes sold in the Piedmont Triad and nearby areas in January.

A Prominent Millwright’s 1880’s Home in Gibsonville, $400,000

January 12, 2024

Berry Davidson had a remarkable career as a 19th-century millwright and mill owner, and we know all about it because he had the rare impulse to write it all down. Davidson’s house in Gibsonville is for sale for $400,000. It’s an impressive structure with a wrap-around porch and widow’s walk, built in 1881 or 1887 (accounts differ). The house stayed in the Davison family until 1975, when the current owner bought it from Berry’s descendants.

Think Small: The 12 Most Intriguing Bungalows and Cottages Sold in 2023

January 2, 2024

Historic mansions and other big houses tend to draw out-sized attention, overshadowing smaller but still remarkable bungalows and cottages. Here are 12 smaller, and sometimes even affordable, historic homes sold in the Piedmont Triad this year.

Their histories are often less well documented than the typical historic mansion; so, too, are the lives of their owners. But they are long on charm and elegant design. Details on each house are below; click on the address links for more information.

221 Spring Street, Thomasville, $259,000

More of the Best of 2023: 12 Remarkable 20th-Century Houses Sold in 2023

January 1, 2024

The most notable 20th-century historic homes sold in the Piedmont Triad this year are a diverse lot. They range from a 1905 Queen Anne in Troy to Mid-Century classics in Graham, Winston-Salem and, again, Troy. Oddly, the newest of the group is in Old Salem, a masterful 2010 reproduction of a lost house from the 1840s. The year’s only other historic house sale in Old Salem that I found was another reconstruction.

Other standouts include one of the oldest houses in Sedgefield, the party house of one of Gibsonville’s most colorful families and a monumental Neoclassical mansion no longer used as a residence in Winston-Salem. Details on each house are below; click on the address links for more information.

Best of 2023: 14 Notable 19th-Century Houses Sold in 2023

December 31, 2023

*400 W. Pine Street in Mount Airy, built in 1896, sold for $615,000*

Two National Register houses and six antebellum homes are among 14 remarkable 19th-century houses sold in the Piedmont Triad this year. The homes are well scattered round the Piedmont’s small towns and rural areas — two each in Alamance, Guilford, Montgomery, Stokes and Surry counties; one each in Caswell, Forsyth, Moore and Rockingham (and, curiously, none in Greensboro or Winston-Salem). Details on each house are below; click on the address links for more information.

‘A Rare Survivor’: A Circa 1800 Log House In Rockingham County, $69,000

May 20, 2023

From Preservation North Carolina, here’s the King House, an “early and important” property that’s been on their list for a while. It’s a great opportunity to give a historic structure a total restoration. Here’s how PNC describes it:

“Early log house with large stone chimneys, exposed beaded ceiling joists, wide wall planks, hand-forged door hardware, and a rear wing, once an early separate kitchen. All situated on a scenic ridge between Wentworth and Reidsville.

Greensboro Modernism, Past and Present: A Benefit House Tour, Saturday, June 17

April 10, 2023

Update: The tour has been canceled, which is a shame.

A Modernist House Tour
Saturday, June 17, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

From NCModernist:

North Carolina’s brilliant mid-century Modernist houses are frequently endangered and often torn down, largely because buyers, sellers and realtors often do not realize the importance of how to identify, preserve and protect these livable works of art. You can’t save something if you don’t know where it is and why it is important.

This tour supports NCModernist, an award-winning nonprofit digital archive for owners, students, journalists, researchers, real estate agents, historians, preservationists, architects and architecture fans to protect and preserve the state’s Modernist houses. With documentation on over 5,000 houses, NCModernist is an unrivalled resource for Modernist research and preservation.

The Best Example of Tudor Revival in Eden’s Central Leaksville Historic District, $245,000

March 1, 2022

In the first half of the 20th century, James W. Hopper was the man to see about designing just about any kind of building in Leaksville, Spray or Draper. In 1923, he designed his own Tudor Revival home at 817 Washington Street in Leaksville. It’s been for sale for a long time (on and off for eight years) at a conspicuously low price, now $245,000 ($62/square foot). It’s now under contract.

There are some visible reasons for that price. The listing’s photos don’t make the house look like an all-out restoration project, but it could use quite a bit of updating (to use the language of the internet, your jaw will not drop when you see the kitchen and bathrooms). It’s right on the edge of the neighborhood, facing a busy thoroughfare. The air conditioning is unusual.

It’s an outstanding house, though, “the best example of the Tudor Revival style“ in the fine Central Leaksville Historic District, the district’s National Register nomination says.

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