Piedmont Historic Homes

526 N. Bridge Street, Eden, Rockingham County
The Russell and Annie Smith House
Listing withdrawn July 23, 2025; relisted August 21, 2025
Sale pending September 24 to October 6, 2025
Listing withdrawn November 21, 2025

• $119,900 (originally $159,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,384 square feet, 0.41 acre
• Price/square foot: $50
• Built in 1947
• Listed April 22, 2025
• Last sale: $1,650, July 1947
• Neighborhood: Leaksville
• Note: The unusual block used on the exterior appears to be form of decorative concrete block. Originally conceived as a lower-cost and more plentiful alternative to stone, the blocks most often were given a rock-like texture, but decorative styles were produced as well. They were used mostly from around 1900 into the 1930s. I haven’t been able to find other examples of this particular block, but the history of the material is well documented (OldHouseGuy.com, The History of Rusticated Concrete Blocks, Historic Rock-Face Block in America).
  • The property was bought in 1947 by Russell L. Smith (1914-1997) and Bethel Clodfelter “Annie” Smith (1914-2004). They operated the Smith & Hawkins furniture and appliance store and a service station, which were located across the street at 313 N. Bridge (the home’s original address was 316 N. Bridge). The home’s current owner inherited it from Annie.

704 S. Main Street, Reidsville, Rockingham County
Listing withdrawn December 1, 2024; relisted April 9, 2025
Sale pending August 12 to November 9, 2025
Listing withdrawn November 9, 2025

• $299,900 (originally $375,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,114 square feet, 0.63 acre
• Price/square foot: $96
• Built in 1905
• Listed August 16, 2024
• Last sales: $155,000, September 2018; $81,500, August 1991
• Neighborhood: Old Post Road Historic District (local), Reidsville Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property includes a greenhouse and two sheds.
• District NR nomination: “Although moderately altered by the application of asbestos siding and the enclosure of a portion of the front porch, this early 20th century Colonial Revival frame house retains much of the original character which makes it a contributing element in the district. Its salient features include the three-bay facade with triple windows flanking the sidelighted entrance, the double-pile, central-hall plan, one-story porch supported by unfluted Ionic columns, and the low hip roof of standing seam tin with a central hipped dormer.”

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112 Gloria Avenue, Winston-Salem
The G.F. Keehln House
Listing withdrawn November 7, 2025

• $359,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,433 square feet, 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $251
• Built in 1910
• Listed September 3, 2025
• Last sale: $210,000, July 2019
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: Owned by an LLC
• District NR nomination: “L-shaped gable-roofed vernacular frame house; hipped-roof porch supported by turned posts and sawn brackets. Steep stone steps from sidewalk have been washed with a Portland cement stucco. Similar to #106 Gloria next door. According to local tradition, this house and #106 were built in 1906 for sisters. Keehln (wife Claudia) was a printer and later a presser at Crist and Keehln.”

420 McAdoo Avenue, Greensboro
The Margaret Murray Thornton House
Blog post (2021) — New Listing: 420 McAdoo Avenue, A 1905 Bungalow Long Owned by One of Southside’s Earliest Families
Listing withdrawn November 5, 2025

• $475,000 (originally $499,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,071 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $229
• Built in 1905
• Listed March 27, 2021
• Last sales: $310,000, April 2021; $156,600, November 2014 (foreclosure)
• Neighborhood: Southside
• Note: Solar panels on roof
  • Older homes in Southside rarely come up for sale.
  • “In 1996, the Greensboro City Council approved a bond package that included funding for the redevelopment of a blighted neighborhood on the southern edge of the downtown. An intensive community planning process followed.
  • “The result was the Southside Plan — an innovative blueprint that breaks ranks with previous redevelopment plans in Greensboro. The Southside Plan follows the principles of ‘new urbanism’ —  existing historic houses being renovated for owner-occupied residences.
  • “New housing features homes that are closely spaced and oriented toward the street with wide front porches. Sidewalks, period street lights, and other amenities add to the ambiance.” (City of Greensboro)
  • The house sits at the corner of McAdoo and Murray streets. Originally part of the Murray family’s large estate, the property was bought in 1901 by Margaret Murray Thornton (1872-1926) from her mother, four siblings and other relatives. After her death, her husband, Charles Dilk Thornton (1872-1947) owned the house until 1943. He was born in Gloucestershire, England, and worked as a dispatcher for Southern Railway.
  • The Greensboro Redevelopment Commission bought the house in 1997 as part of Southside’s redevelopment.

500 Cascade Avenue, Winston-Salem
The Andrew and Jessie Stroup House
Listing withdrawn November 3, 2025

• $350,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,780 square feet, 0.14 acre
• Price/square foot: $197
• Built circa 1930
• Listed August 5, 2025
• Last sale: $215,000, June 2022
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: For sale by owner
  • County records give a 1920 date to the house, but the address doesn’t appear in the city directory until 1930.
• District NR nomination: “Frame gable-sided Colonial Revival style house, three bays wide with brick exterior end chimney. Central entrance beneath hipped roof hood supported by modillions; front door with four-light sidelights and classical half-columns; 8/8 sash; one-story rear gable ell over garage bay.
  • “House is in wooded area with Washington Park across Cascade Street and to the east across Park Blvd.
  • “Stroup (wife Jessie) was general agent with Occidental Life Insurance Company.”
  • But he was so much more than the nomination gives him credit for. Andrew Benjamin Stroup (1872-1936) had a distinguished career as a prohibitionist. Born in Illinois, his family moved to Kansas when he was 10 because “his father was such an ardent prohibitionist that he found he could not dispose of his farm products in Illinois except to brewery interests and found solace for his conscience by moving to Kansas, which was a dry state.”
  • Andrew was a school administrator in New Mexico for several years before becoming a lawyer and going to work for the Anti-Saloon League. In the 1920s he served as prohibition control director in a number of states, including North Carolina.
  • After the scourge of liquor was again visited upon the land, he moved to Winston-Salem. “He was instrumental in having the Occidental Life Insurance Company locate in North Carolina” and worked for the company for several years, The Sentinel reported in his obituary.
  • Jessie McMillan Stroup (1878-1967) was a librarian. She served as the public library’s reference librarian from 1927 to 1947. She also was a charter member of the Human Betterment League of North Carolina, a pro-eugenics group. By 1940 she had moved.
  • Andrew and Jessie built in the house in 1928, soon after buying the property from John Gilmer and Emma Gilmer. The deed says it was part of a Gilmer property called Briarwood. Emma Rison Jones Gilmer (1877-1959) “was prominently identified with the social and cultural life of Winston-Salem,” the Winston-Salem Journal said. She was a founder of the Twin City Garden Club and one of the first presidents of the Women’s Club.
  • Her husband, John Lash Gilmer (1872-1947), and his brother Powell were “pioneers in the development of Winston-Salem’s West Fourth Street retail district,” the Winston-Salem Journal said. They also developed other commercial properties and several neighborhoods. They opened the city’s first Buick dealership in 1907 and founded Camel City Coach Lines, which became part of Greyhound. John and Emma’s mansion, designated a Forsyth County landmark, stands nearby at 605 Cascade Avenue.

429 N. Asheboro Street, Liberty, Randolph County
The John Burley Cole House
Listing withdrawn April 15, 2025; relisted April 25, 2025
Listing withdrawn October 1, 2025; relisted October 2, 2025
Listing withdrawn November 1, 2025

• $328,800 (originally $378,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,028 square feet, 0.79 acre
• Price/square foot: $162
• Built in 1920 (per county)
• Listed November 27, 2024
• Last sale: $27,000, May 2019
• Neighborhood: Liberty Historic District (NR)
• Note: The National Register nomination dates the house to circa 1905.
• District NR nomination: “The J.B. Cole house is a one-story, frame, weatherboard clad residence, with a pyramidal roof. A hipped-roof porch partially wraps the south elevation and is supported by square, boxed, wood porch piers. A centered, hipped dormer is located just above the eave-line of the roof. Roof sheathing is modern v-crimp metal and the porch rail is a recent addition.”
  • Although the nomination identifies this as the John Burley Cole House, there’s no deed available online showing him as an owner of the property (it’s possible he rented it at some point). The oldest clearly identifiable deed for the property is dated 1918 and shows Samuel Roscoe Miller (1884-1941) and Mammie Jane Elkins Miller (1888-1973) selling the house to C.R. Curtis and Lolah Curtis. S.R. Miller’s name is found as grantee on three earlier deeds, but none show Cole as the grantor.
  • Cornelius R. Curtis (1866-1934) and Effie Lola Coble Curtis (1878-1950) bought the property in 1918. Cornelius was a school teacher in Randolph, Guilford and Alamance counties before becoming a store owner. He served on the Liberty school board.
  • Effie sold the house in 1938 to Cyrus Shoffner (1889-1972) and Julia Smith Shoffner (1886-1973). Cyrus was president of Liberty Machinery Company. He served as mayor of Liberty and chairman of the Liberty School Board.
  • In 1956, they sold the house to their son Jack Preyor Shoffner (1919-1973). Like his father, Jack operated the Liberty Machinery Company and served as mayor of Liberty and on the Liberty school board. Jack and his wife, Katherine Smith Shoffner (1921-1997), sold the house in 1965.

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1358 Tellowee Road, Eden, Rockingham County
The Charles and Josephine Whisenant House
Sale pending September 12-26, 2025
Sale pending October 23-31, 2025
Listing withdrawn October 31, 2025

• $367,000 (originally $377,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,740 square feet, 1.62 acres (per county; see note)
• Price/square foot: $211
• Built in 1972
• Listed August 26, 2025
• Last sale: 1971, before the house was built.
• Neighborhood: Sauratown Estates, off N.C. 14 south of Eden near the Carter’s Grove community.
• Note: No two sources give the same size for the lot: County property records show 1.62 acres, the deed has 1.33 and the listing says 1.98.
  • Charles Augustus Whisenant Jr. and Josephine Lingerfelt Whisenant (1932-2020) bought the property in 1971. Charles is now selling it. He was the first plant manager for Spray Textured Yarns in 1970 and also had worked for Burkyarns in Valdese. Jo was a long time member and past president of the Eden Garden Club.

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6325 U.S. Highway 21, Jonesville, Yadkin County
The Pardue-Hinton House
Listing withdrawn October 31, 2025

• $262,000
• 6 bedrooms, 1 bathroom (per county), 2,148 square feet, 0.96 acre
• Price/square foot: $122
• Built in 1936
• Listed October 15, 2025
• Last sale: $242,000, February 2024
• Note: Online listings claim there are 2 bathrooms.
  • The house is a Cape Cod-style variation on a Cotswold Cottage. The stone exterior and arched entry porch are characteristic of Tudor Revival, of which Cotswold Cottage is a subset. The symmetrical roofline with dormers are typical of Cape Cod, a particularly popular post-war home style.
  • It was bought in 1938 by William Freel Pardue (1892-1986) and Mamie Sue Burchette Pardue (1895-1974). It remained in their family for 86 years. William worked for Chatham Manufacturing. Ownership passed to daughter Violet Pardue Mackie (1914-2004). Violet also worked for Chatham Manufacturing.
  • In 2002, Violet passed the house to her sister Betty Jean Pardue Hinson (1928-2019) and the remarkable Gilmer Watson Hinton (1927-2020). They lived in the house for the rest of their lives. They were married for 67 years.
  • After serving in the Navy, Gilmer took an entry-level job with Lowe’s Home Improvement, where he worked for 40 years. He bought Lowe’s stock through the years, eventually owning 75,000 shares. Shortly before his death, he donated $10 million in Lowe’s stock to seven organizations, $1.4 million each, including the Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital Foundation, Surry Community College, a Bible college, two churches and two local foundations.
  • Gilmer and Bettie had put the house into two trusts, which sold it in 2024.

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1024 Franklin Street, Winston-Salem
Listing withdrawn October 28, 2025

• $145,000 (originally $160,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,978 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $73
• Built in 1915
• Listed August 20, 2025
• Last sales: $83,000, August 2025; $72,000, July 2004
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NR)
• Note: The listing includes only one photo.
• District NR nomination: “I-house. Two story; hip roof; hip-roof porch with upper hip-roof balcony; metal posts; two-over-two, double-hung sash; weatherboard; single-light entry.”
  • The address first appears in the city directory in 1915 with Rufus Augusta Myers (1865-1965) and Flora Hasultine Thomas Myers (1869-1920) as residents. Rufus was a blacksmith with the Winston Vehicle Company.

808 Northridge Street, Greensboro
The Albert and Mamie Fordham House
Dailey Renewal Retreat Bed & Breakfast
Listing removed October 27, 2025

• $559,000 (originally $569,900)
• 6 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 3,248 square feet, 0.57 acre
• Price/square foot: $172
• Built in 1914
• Listed August 21, 2025
• Last sale: $175,000, October 2002
• Neighborhood: Lindley Park
• Note: The house has been a B&B for 15 years.
  • “Its simple Queen Anne/Colonial Revival-style finish includes a cross-gable-and-hip roof, a stepped-back form and cutaway bay, and a square-columned wraparound porch.” (Greensboro: An Architectural Record)
  • The original residents were Albert Eugene Fordham (1865-1939) and Mamie A. Ball Fordham (1864-1916). Albert operated a shoe store on McAdoo Avenue and later on West Market Street. By 1918, the city directory identified him as a farmer.
  • Mamie “had been prominently identified with the religious and social life of the community during her 12 years she has made this city her home,” the Greensboro Daily News said.
  • The original ownership of the house is unusual. Mamie and her sisters Geneva Caroline Ball (1855-1941) and Leonora A. “Nora” Ball (1858-1944) bought the property in 1914. The three sisters and Albert were listed on Oak Avenue, the original name of Northridge Street, in the 1915-16 city directory, the first year the street was listed.
  • Geneva and Nora became the sole owners in 1921. By 1922 Albert was no longer listed as living in Greensboro, and by 1925 the sisters were gone from the city directory as well. They apparently rented the house out before selling it in 1928.
  • Clyde S. Harward (1883-1936) and Bessie Sampson Harward (1891-1954) bought the house from the Ball sisters. Bessie sold the house in 1937. Clyde was a machinist at Greensboro Lumber Manufacturing Company and later a cabinet-maker with Oettinger Lumber Company. Greensboro: An Architectural History mistakenly shows him as the first identifiable owner of the house.
  • In 1954, Jack Newman (1916-2006) and Lois Fullington Newman (1915-1990) bought the house. Jack owned it for 39 years. He was a veteran of World War II. He worked for Western Auto Supply and later Richardson Vick. Lois was a nurse.

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410 Beaumont Street, Winston-Salem
Sale pending September 18 to October 21, 2025
Listing withdrawn October 21, 2025

• $279,500 (originally $328,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,627 square feet, 0.07 acre
• Price/square foot: $172
• Built in 1920 (per county, but probably a few years later; see note)
• Listed May 30, 2025
• Last sales: $184,000, January 2025; $165,000, January 2025 (the same day); $200,000, March 2022
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NR)
• Note: Flipped house. Caveat emptor.
  • Since a foreclosure in 2011, the house has been owned by a succession of financial institutions and LLCs. It’s now owned by an LLC in Fuquay-Varina.
  • The property’s original address was 560 Beaumont.
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One and a half story; side gable; asbestos shingle siding; front-gable dormer; four (vertical)-over-one, double-hung sash; gable-roof porch; battered posts on brick piers; exposed rafter tails; knee braces.”
  • The address doesn’t appear in the city directory until 1924, with James Walker Bowles (1862-1930) and Minnie Lee Messick Bowles (1878-1932) as residents. James was a carpenter. Minnie was his his second wife; his first wife, Amanda Huie Bowles, died in 1900. He fathered a total of 12 children with them between 1891 and 1921 (the last was born when he was 59), five with Amanda and seven with Minnie. The family had moved, probably to a bigger house, by 1926.

190 Broad Street, Milton, Caswell County
Listing withdrawn October 6, 2025

• $360,000 (originally $400,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,543 square feet, 0.29 acre
• Price/square foot: $142
• Built in 1850
• Listed April 10, 2025
• Last sale: $25,000, March 2021
• Neighborhood: Milton Historic District (NR)
• Note: The house is now a short-term rental.
  • Listing: “Interior boasts late Federal trim attributed to the renowned Thomas Day workshop. … This home is held under protective covenants held by Preservation North Carolina with Historic Preservation Agreement in place.”
  • Restored by the current owners: “When the couple closed on the house in March 2021, it was a total disaster. Years of neglect and abandonment resulted in gaping holes in the roof and walls, allowing rainwater to flow in, steadily eroding the structural integrity of the home. …
  • “The Jones House required drastic renovation not just to repair the obvious damage, but careful historic restoration with oversight from Preservation North Carolina to ensure that the home was returned to a state as historically accurate as possible.
  • “‘It’s actually kind of frustrating that people are going to come through this house and not realize that it has been totally renovated, because all they’re going to see is original woodwork moldings and just think it’s always looked like this when, in actuality, so much of it had to be carefully put back together,’ [owner Nancy Keeler] said.” (Hyco Lake Magazine, March 2022)
• An Inventory of Historic Architecture: Caswell County, North Carolina, p. 219: “Jones House, 1st half of 19th century. 2-story frame house with exterior end brick chimneys, of late Federal or Greek Revival vintage but considerably remodeled by the addition of bracketed eaves and an ornate Queen Anne style front porch, with an unusually fine cross-gable bargeboard.”

164 Johnson Ridge Road, Elkin, Surry County
The Janet Graham House
Listing withdrawn May 6, 2025; relisted May 13, 2025
Sale pending August 20, 2025 to September 6, 2025
Listing withdrawn October 5, 2025

• $299,000 (originally $379,000)
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 1,420 square feet (per county), 0.65 acre
• Price/square foot: $211
• Built in 1978
• Listed April 23, 2024
• Last sales: $172,000, May 2024; $61,000, October 2014
• Note: An unusual octagonal house with an open floor plan upstairs and the lone bedroom downstairs.
  • Flipped house with a markup of more than 100 percent (and the house didn’t appear to be in bad shape when they bought it — photos here); caveat emptor.
  • The listing shows 1,594 square feet, 12 percent more than county records.
  • The house was built by Dr. Janet Hamilton Graham (1946-2006), who bought the property in 1978. She lived in Florida and may have used the home as a summer residence. She was minister of music and organist at Memorial Presbyterian Church in St. Augustine, Florida, and conductor of the St. Augustine Community Choir. She left the house to her brother; he sold it in 2014.

314 W. Pine Street, Mount Airy, Surry County
The W. W. and Lucy Burke House
Bee’s B&B
Listing withdrawn October 1, 2025

• $650,000
• 6 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,226 square feet (per county), 0.41 acre
• Price/square foot: $201
• Built in 1890
• Listed April 20, 2025
• Last sale: $63,000, April 1997
• Neighborhood: Mount Airy Historic District (NR)
• Note: Now a B&B
  • The house has two full laundry rooms, one on each floor, and two water heaters.
  • “Sold furnished (with a few exclusions) … Proof of funds or prequalification required.”
  • The earliest known residents were William Walter Burke (1872-1935) and Lucy Belle Taylor Burke (1881-1943). “Mr. Burke had been prominently connected with business affairs in Mt. Airy for over a quarter of a century,” the Winston-Salem Journal reported in his obituary. W.W. operated a dry goods store on Main Street. He later opened a real estate office and served as vice president of the First National Bank.
• District NR nomination: “Late 19th century two-story L-shaped frame Italianate style house similar to others in town with overhanging eaves, classically inspired decorative frieze, tall corbelled chimneys (now stuccoed), prominent paneled corner posts and awning-like wooden window hood molds.
  • “Hip roof front porch carried by tapered box posts and paneled skirt. The paneled skirt is repeated on the side (east) two-tier porch with an enclosed sleeping porch above.
  • “Update: The house has undergone a few changes since it was originally surveyed but its overall character and important features like the fringed window hoods remain intact. The front porch has turned posts and a sawn balustrade, historic elements from another house, inserted in place of the Craftsman tapered posts and low paneled railing that were earlier replacements formerly on the porch.
  • “Windows have been replaced, the historic siding covered or replaced with novelty vinyl siding, and a large deck has been added to the rear, reached by an elevated walkway on the left end of the house. Stained glass has been installed in the second-story window over the entrance. The lower level of the side porch was enclosed in 2019.”

502 W. Allenton Street, Mount Gilead, Montgomery County (previous Preservation North Carolina listing)
The Scarborough House
Listing withdrawn September 14, 2024; relisted March 25, 2025
Listing withdrawn October 1, 2025

• $350,000 (originally $385,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,840 square feet (per county), 3.77 acres
• Price/square foot: $123
• Built in 1892
• Listed March 6, 2024
• Last sales: $60,000, November 2021; $45,000, November 2020
• Note: The owner is an LLC based in Charlotte, which has done a massive restoration job on it. From the 2020 listing: “The Scarborough House needs structural repairs to the rear hall floor and ceiling caused by a roof leak (recently dried-in), and porch repairs, removal of old ceiling tiles and carpeting, plus updates to the kitchen, baths, and mechanical systems.”
  • The house, outbuildings and the 3.77-acre lot are subject to preservation covenants held by the Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina.
  • From the 2020 listing: The property includes five outbuildings — well house, smokehouse, barn, corn crib and 1920s garage (Frankie Scarborough was one of the first car owners in Mount Gilead). Another barn burned in 1902.
  • The original owners may have been Henry Griffin Scarborough (1853-1931) and Frances Jane Scubbins Scarborough (1855-1931). Henry was a farmer and served as a county commissioner. They were listed in the 1910 census as living on West Road, which could be West Allenton Street, Mount Gilead’s main east-west street. In 1894, Frances was the subject of an alarming report in The Charlotte Democrat:

• Frances apparently recovered from her derangement; her 12th child was born three years later. Frank Leslie Scarborough (1897-1966) was the youngest of their children, nine of whom lived to adulthood.
• The last two for-sale listings for the house report that Frankie was one of the earliest car owners in town. He attended Trinity College (probably graduating in 1919, five years before it became Duke University). Frankie was an electrical engineer. In the 1940s and ’50s, he worked in Chattanooga for the Tennessee Valley Authority. He was living in Troy when he died.
  • The house was owned by the Scarborough family until 2020, when the Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina bought it for $35,000.
  • How the house looked in 2021:

329 Pender Street, Mount Airy, Surry County
The Stephen and Emma Hale House
Listing withdrawn March 11, 2024; relisted July 18, 2024
Listing withdrawn November 16, 2024; relisted May 19, 2025
Listing withdrawn October 1, 2025

• $215,000 (originally $329,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,689 square feet, 0.97 acre
• Price/square foot: $58
• Built in 1901
• Listed October 13, 2023
• Last sale: $27,000, October 1984
• Notes: The seller seems to think it’s a selling point that the house isn’t eligible for historic-preservation tax credits (“In historical books but not listed in the historical registry!”).
  • County property record card: “UPSTAIRS IN NEED OF COMPL RENV. CENT AIR IN PART OF HSE ONLY”
  • In its earliest days, the house was home to a string of prominent local business owners. The earliest documented owners were Stephen Mason Hale (1862-1942) and Emma Waugh Cooper Hale (1861-1928), who were listed at 132 Pender Street in 1913. Stephen was the owner of S.M. Hale General Merchandise, later Hale’s Department Store. Born in Grayson County, Virginia, he operated a store in Ennice in Alleghany County for 11 years before moving to Mount Airy in 1899. He retired in 1939, spending his later years tending his cattle and peach farm 10 miles outside town.
  • The next known owners were Cecil Forrest Hennis Sr. (1886-1953) and Pearl Campbell Hennis (1896-1968). Cecil was an early auto dealer, proprietor of Hennis Motor Company, the local Chrysler-Plymouth dealer, for 30 years.
  • “No man enjoyed a wider circle of friends and a greater esteem of his countrymen than Mr. Hennis, who could always be found enlisted with the forces for the betterment of the community in which he lived,” his obituary said.
  • In 1925, Hennis sold the house to the remarkably named Bausley Beasley (1876-1955) and Della Jennie Davis Beasley (1877-1934). Bausley was the owner of Beasley Lumber & Milling Company. He served several terms as a city commissioner in Mount Airy.
  • By 1949, the house had been divided into four apartments. It is now a single-family home again.

207 Summit Street, Walnut Cove, Stokes County
Frank and Eva Petree House
Listing withdrawn October 1, 2025

• $185,999 (originally $200,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,667 square feet (per county), 0.27 acre
• Price/square foot: $112
• Built in 1920 (per county; see note)
• Listed March 27, 2025
• Last sale: $28,500, October 1984
• Note: The seller says the house was built in 1890, but the listing provides no documentation.
  • “Pre listing inspection available upon request. … Previous water leaks and foundational issue noted. Foundation issues quoted by structural repair company and can be provided upon request.”
  • County property records have the street name misspelled (“Summitt”) and give the acreage as zero.
  • The State Historic Preservation Office identifies it as the Frank J. Petree House, most likely for Francis Jacob Petree (1886-1975), who bought the house in 1923. He was married to Eva Maude Vaughn Petree (1893-1980). Frank was a plumbing contractor. The house was sold by their daughter to the current owners in 1984.

1025 West End Boulevard, Winston-Salem
The Frank and Fannie Benbow House
Listing withdrawn September 30, 2025

• $785,000 (originally $809,800)
• Single-family home divided into five apartments, bedrooms and bathrooms not specified, 3,628 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $216
• Built in 1920 (per county, but probably a few years earlier; see note)
• Listed March 20, 2025
• Last sale: $14,000, March 1983
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The listing says there are five apartments, but photos show six mailboxes and six electric meters.
  • District NR nomination: “The Benbow House is a large, two-story frame, Colonial Revival dwelling. It has a gabled roof with cornice returns, gabled dormers, a left front projecting bay, a central entrance with sidelights and transom, and a front porch with Tuscan columns, a full entablature, and a pedimented entrance bay.
    “The south bay of the porch has been enclosed, a second story has been added to the original one-story rear wing, and the house has been sheathed with asbestos shingles — probably all during mid century. These changes, however, have not destroyed the positive contribution the house makes to the overall character of the neighborhood.
  • “Attorney Frank A. Benbow [a typo in the National Register nomination — actually Frank B. Benbow] acquired the property in 1915, and the following year he and his wife, Fannie, were listed at this location in the city directory. The Benbow family owned and occupied the house until 1939.” Frank and Fannie were both from Yadkin County. Fannie Mae Martin Benbow was a graduate of Salem College. Before coming to Winston-Salem in 1914, Franklin Byron Benbow (1968-1945) served in the N.C. House of Representatives from Yadkin County. He practiced law in Winston-Salem until his death.
  • The city directory shows five apartments in the house beginning in 1956.

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102 W. Main Street, Yanceyville, Caswell County
Listing withdrawn September 25, 2025

• $83,900
• 4 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,064 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $79
• Building date unknown (see note)
• Listed September 4, 2024
• Last sale: $12,000, June 1981
• Neighborhood: Yanceyville Historic District (NR)
• Note: County records give the date as 1945, but the style of the house makes that doubtful.
  • Before the 1981 sale, the house was owned for decades by Herman Lafayette Gunn (1912-1991) and Ruth Roach Gunn (1909-1977). Herman owned Gunn Appliances of Yanceyville.

801 W. McGee Street, Unit 15, Greensboro
Listing withdrawn September 18, 2025

• $175,000
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 773 square feet
• Price/square foot: $226
• Built in 1905
• Listed June 16, 2025
• Last sale: $144,000, August 2021
• HOA: $238/month
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: Rental unit with an active lease through February 2027.

421 Vine Street, Eden, Rockingham County
Listing withdrawn December 9, 2024; relisted March 21, 2025
Listing withdrawn September 9, 2025

• $325,000 (originally $450,000)
• 16 or 17 bedrooms (see note), 13 bathrooms, 5,834 square feet (per county), 0.60 acre
• Price/square foot: $56
• Built in 1920
• Listed May 20, 2020
• Last sales: $50 (50 dollars), September 2024; $54,000, September 1987
• Note: Once known as the Carolina Inn or Carolina Home, identified variously as a boarding house or nursing home.
  • The current listing shows 16 bedrooms; the previous one said 17.
  • Previous listing: “Tons of income potential with light TLC. … 6 rooms have private kitchenettes & baths.”
  • Listed agent is an online realty firm that promises to get properties listed with MLS and online listing sites.
  • The postcard above is from the intriguing Welcome to Leaksville, North Carolina site.

609 Joyner Street, Greensboro
The Paul M. Johnson House
Listing withdrawn February 8, 2025; relisted February 12, 2025
Listing withdrawn September 7, 2025

• $444,500 (originally $525,000)
• 4 bedrooms (per county), 2 bathrooms (per county), 2,040 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $218
• Built in 1922
• Listed February 2, 2025
• Last sale: $46,000, December 1982
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: For sale by owner
• District NR nomination: “Sweeping gable roofs punctuated with large triangular knee-braces top this dwelling and its full-facade front porch, which is supported by tapered brick posts.”
  • The original owners were Paul Marcus Johnson (1891-1975) and Ora Jane Knight Johnson (1896-1964). Paul was an engineer on the Atlantic & Yadkin Railway. They bought the property in 1924 and lived there the rest of their lives.
  • The Johnsons’ sons sold the house in 1976 to the Rev. Joseph Wilson Flora Jr. (1925-1998) and Mary Watson McAlister Flora (1931-2016). Rev. Flora was the Presbyterian campus minister at UNCG. The house was occupied by their son, Stewart, a student. They sold the house to the current owners in 1982.

130 Main Street, Eden, Rockingham County
Listing withdrawn August 2, 2023; relisted February 24, 2025
Listing withdrawn September 2, 2025

• $399,900 (originally $540,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 6,552 square feet, 1.1 acres
• Price/square foot: $61
• Built in 1948
• Listed January 30, 2023
• Last sale: April 2022, price not recorded on deed
• Neighborhood: Way over there in Draper
• Note: Originally Draper Methodist Church, later First Methodist Church of Draper, First United Methodist Church of Draper and finally First United Methodist Church of Eden
  • The church sold the property in November 2021 for $55,000.
  • “In 1948 the present building was erected, a handsome, large brick building in the Gothic style, seating some 500 worshippers in the sanctuary. …
  • “The red brick walls of this gable-front church are laid in a running bond. A trio of main entrances features double raised panel doors on each, set in rounded arches with keystones. Stained glass fills the long and narrow Roman arched windows, with larger stained glass windows on the aide elevations. Plain four-over-four windows are found oat the basement level. A circular stained glass window is centered in the main elevation. The main elevation is bracketed by pilaster buttresses with painted concrete caps.” (A Tale of Three Cities: Eden’s Heritage, p. 192)

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407 Summit Street, Winston-Salem
The Dixon House
Listing withdrawn September 1, 2025

• $774,900 (originally $799,900)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 full bathroom and two half-bathrooms, 3,234 square feet, 0.10 acre
• Price/square foot: $240
• Built in 1918
• Listed February 20, 2025
• Last sale: $214,000, April 2001
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: Law office since 2001
  • Listing: “Currently set up with office space on the main floor and living quarters upstairs with a separate entrance”
  • The listing shows 3,631 square feet.
• District NR nomination: “The Dixon House is a well-preserved, two-story frame, Craftsman-Colonial Revival style dwelling with strong Classical detailing. The house has weatherboard siding, a low hip roof with pedimented cross gables and front dormer, widely overhanging eaves, eight-over-one sash windows, and a central entrance with sidelights and transom.
  • “The dominant feature of the house is the Classical front porch with Roman Doric columns and pilasters, a projecting entrance bay, and a dentiled cornice.
  • “Irene B. Dixon purchased the property in 1914, and by 1916 she and her husband, Edward W., who was manager of the Imperial Tobacco Co., were living here. The house remained in the Dixon family until 1946.”

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302 Louise Avenue, High Point
The John and Grace Swiggett House
Listing withdrawn September 1, 2025

• $260,000
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,167 square feet, 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot: $120
• Built in 1915
• Listed June 6, 2025
• Last sales: $110,000, October 2022; $56,000, March 1999
• Neighborhood:
• Note: Yet another renovation being abandoned part way through. Owned by a company in Charlotte.
  • The address didn’t appear in the city directory until the 1921-22 edition. The original owners were John Washington Swiggett (1884-1969) and Grace Gertrude Shaver Swiggett (1896-1982). They lived in the house for the rest of their lives. John was a foreman at Kearns Furniture Company. He worked at the company for 40 years and served as superintendent for 25 years. Their son sold the house in 1985.

505 W. Decatur Street, Madison, Rockingham County
Sale pending August 13 to September 1, 2025
Listing withdrawn September 1, 2025

• $189,900
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,127 square feet, 0.54 acre
• Price/square foot: $169
• Built in 1930 (possibly 1885; see note)
• Listed July 20, 2025
• Last sales: $170,000, Jun 2024; $99,000, February 2018
• Neighborhood: Decatur-Hunter Historic District (local)
• Note: A hand-painted plaque on the house reads, “Byerly 1885,” but no definitive documentation is available online to support an 1885 date for the house. It’s not mentioned in the 2003 architectural survey of Rockingham County. County records give a 1930 date.
  • James Allen Byerly (1864-1939) and Jennie Scales Smith Byerly (1869-1908) sold a property on Decatur Street in 1889; the deed’s description of the property is too vague to be sure it’s this one (the online county deeds directory doesn’t even show a deed for their purchase of the property). James and Jennie were born in Forsyth County. James was a graduate of Oak Ridge Military Academy. He served as a town commissioner in Madison and, during a politically tumultuous time for the local post office, as postmaster. They had returned to Winston-Salem by 1902 and lived there for the rest of their lives.

421 W. Main Street, Danville, Virginia
The James and Nell Hamlin House
Listing withdrawn August 30, 2025

• $299,900 (originally $400,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 full bathrooms and 2 half-bathrooms, 2,995 square feet, 0.20 acre
• Price/square foot: $100
• Built circa 1929 (see note)
• Listed January 24, 2025
• Last sale: May 1963, price unavailable
• Note: Property records don’t give a date for construction of the house, which is unusual. The address appeared in the city directory by 1929.
  • The driveway comes out around the corner on College Avenue; this house is one property away from the corner.
  • No central air conditioning. The house still has its radiators and gas furnace.
  • The original owners were James Turner Hamlin Jr. (1894-1974) and Ellen Chester “Nell” Davis Hamlin (1900-1984). They lived in the house from around 1929 until around 1947.
  • James was a veteran of both world wars, retiring with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He and his father operated Hamlin & Hamlin, a wholesale confectionary business. Senior lived next door at 419. Nell was a graduate of Greensboro College. She was a member of the Wednesday Club and the Shakespeare Study Club.
  • Junior was also president of the Herb Juice Penol Company, which sold patent-medicine laxatives called Hamlin’s Pow-O-Lin and Miller’s Herb Juice. In addition to whatever herbs they might have contained, they were 11 percent alcohol. The American Medical Association’s Bureau of Investigations tested them and described them as “essentially a water-alcohol solution of plant extractives flavored with licorice.” They weren’t surprised that people felt better after drinking the stuff.

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101 W. 5th Avenue, Lexington, Davidson County
The Charles and Elizabeth Wall House
Listing withdrawn December 16, 2023; relisted January 9, 2023
Listing withdrawn June 15, 2024; relisted August 29, 2024
Listing withdrawn late January/early February 2025 (exact date not recorded)
Relisted April 26, 2025
Listing withdrawn August 25, 2025

• $470,000 (originally $850,000, later $395,000)
• 2 buildings, total of 10 bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, 6,006 square feet, 1.39 acres
• Price/square foot: $78
• Built in 1900 and 1951
• Listed July 5, 2023
• Last sale: $130,000, September 2021
• Neighborhood: Lexington Residential Historic District (NR)
• Note: Renovation being abandoned part-way through. The historic character of the interior has been almost completely wiped out.
  • Previous listing: “Engineering plans already done for four 2 Bedroom, 2 Bath apartments. … Second building has two 1 Bedroom, 1 Bath apartments that have already been updated and rehabbed.”
• District NR nomination: “Two-story weatherboarded Queen Anne with a blue 5-V crimp hip roof, projecting pedimented bays on the north and east elevations and hip-roofed entry porches supported by square posts; 1/1 sash, sidelights flanking front door, gabled and pyramidal-hip-roofed dormers with vents, brick interior chimney with tall corbelled stack. The house appears on the 1913 Sanborn map. Mr. Wall was the co-owner of C.M. Wall and Son, a lumber company.”
• What it looked like in December 2022:

209 Orchard Street, Mount Airy, Surry County
The Haymore House
Listing withdrawn September 23, 2024; relisted May 15, 2025
Listing withdrawn August 25, 2025

• $379,900 (originally $420,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,898 square feet, 0.63 acre
• Price/square foot: $131
• Built in 1910
• Listed August 26, 2024
• Last sale: $135,000, April 2017
• Neighborhood: Lebanon Hills Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Story-and-a-half Craftsman bungalow of aluminum-sided frame construction with a composite-shingled side-gable roof. The roof has a shed dormer on the front and engages a front porch with tapered wood posts on brick pedestals.
  • “There are two parged chimneys with corbeled tops, one interior and the other exterior on the east end. The exterior chimney has a single stepped shoulder and a stepped base. The house wall inside the porch steps back on the east side and is sheathed with what appears to be vertical aluminum siding.
  • “The Craftsman wood sash windows are varied: six-over-one on the front, four-over-one on the sides, and three-pane in the dormer. Other features include a parged foundation, a replacement front door, and a shallow bump-out on the east side (apparent on the 1922 Sanborn map) with an interior parged flue. 1929 Sanborn map address: 178.”
• James Oliver Haymore (1850-1928) and Millie Jetta Banner Haymore (1841-1934) bought the property in 1898 from the Granite City Land & Improvement Company. James was a mechanic who owned a number of properties in Surry County. In 1915, they passed ownership to their son James Chapman Haymore (1883-1958) and daughter-in-law Minnie Green Martin Haymore (1882-1964).

336 S. Hamilton Street, Eden, Rockingham County
Listing withdrawn August 23, 2025

• $319,900 (originally $324,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,632 square feet, 0.6 acre
• Price/square foot: $196
• Built in 1918
• Listed June 13, 2025
• Last sales: $250,000, April 2022; $125,000, October 2021
• Neighborhood: Leaksville
• False advertising: The listing says the house is “located in the heart of Eden’s Historic District!” It’s not in the historic district at all (so it’s not eligible for historic-preservation tax credits).

8201 Stokesdale Street, Stokesdale, Guilford County
Listing withdrawn May 1, 2025; relisted July 8, 2025
Sale pending July 30 to August 22, 2025
Listing withdrawn August 22, 2025

• $119,000 (originally $175,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,260 square feet, 0.65 acre
• Price/square foot: $53
• Built in 1888
• Listed August 26, 2024
• Last sales: $52,500, December 2023; $76,250, October 2023
• Note: For sale by owner
  • The owner was advertising this house for rent the same month it was put up for sale.

351 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Greensboro
Foreclosure sale canceled

• Auction held Tuesday, August 12, 2025
  • Seven days after the auction, the law firm handling the sale said the foreclosure had been canceled.
• 4,005 square feet, 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $53
• Built in 1875 (per county)
• Last sale: $360,000, September 2005
• Neighborhood: Southside, South Greensboro Historic District (NR)
• Note: County property records show the house as office space.
  • The house is on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive where the street passes over Murrow Boulevard.
  • The historic district nomination gives the date as circa 1875 to 1896.
• District NR nomination: “The late nineteenth-century house of Southern Railroad trainmaster T. Bernard at 351 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive [#238] is one of the best examples of the Italianate style in the city.
  • “An L-plan house at heart, it features flattened segmental-arches; a bracketed and panelled one-story bay at the projecting leg of its L; a second-story window above the bay with a sawn, fringed hood; and applied woodwork and brackets at its friezeboards and cornice returns.
  • “Bernard is the first known resident of the house, although it was probably not built by him; the property passed through the hands of numerous large landowners during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and which one may have built it is not known.”
  • The house, originally known as 351 Asheboro Street, appears to have been a rental initially. Thomas Bernard (1849-1929) and Virginia Hunter Spotswood Bernard (1850-1930) were the residents in 1896, the earliest year the city directory (or those available online, at least) includes the address. There’s no deed available online that shows them buying or selling the house. Thomas worked for the Southern Railway for 60 years. He and Virginia were natives of Petersburg, Virginia.
  • By 1901, David Richard Harry (1859-1931) and Frances Amanda Isabella Neely Harry (1857-1918) were living in the house. David was secretary-treasurer of Harry-Belk Brothers, “dry goods, notions, shoes & clothing.” There are no deeds online showing them owning the house, either. By 1912, Mary Frances Hunter Hodgin (1845-1920) was living in the house, which had been left to her by her husband. Her stay was relatively brief; in 1913 she was listed back across the street at 336 Asheboro.
  • James Addison Hodgin (1846-1909) is the first identifiable owner of the property. It was one of dozens he bought between 1878 and 1909. He lived across the street in the grand Neoclassical Revival house at 336 Asheboro (which was torn down in 2023). J. Addison was manager of the savings department of Greensboro Loan & Trust Company and an active buyer and seller of real estate.
  • By 1922 the house had two tenants, then three in 1923. By 1928, it had been divided into four apartments. It was later returned to single-family. By the 1980s, it housed a retail business.

1523 W. 1st Street, Winston-Salem
Listing withdrawn November 7, 2023; relisted November 10, 2023
Listing withdrawn March 27, 2024; relisted May 10, 2024
Listing withdrawn October 1, 2024
Relisted May 2, 2025
Listing withdrawn August 14, 2025

• $484,900 (originally $599,500)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,188 square feet, 0.32 acre
• Price/square foot: $152
• Built in 1923
• Listed October 6, 2023
• Last sale: $246,000, May 2023
• Neighborhood: West Highlands
• Note: Caveat emptor — quick and cheap (judging from the cheap vinyl floors) flip job and a major money-grab (bought for $246,000).
  • The house was sold three times on May 15, 2023. The buyers were a corporation and two LLCs. The prices, in order, were $210,000, $230,000 and $246,000.
  • The house was first listed in the city directory in 1924 under its original address, 1523 Shallowford Road. The residents were Karan Mock Yokeley (1894-1972) and Frances Newby Yokeley (1895-1983). Karan was a dentist.
  • From 1925 to 1937, the residents were Robert Lee Hopper (1868-1954) and Emma Florence McKeel Hopper (1874-1959). Robert was a tobacco auctioneer at Planters Warehouse.
  • How it looked before the last sale:

523 W. 1st Street, Winston-Salem
The Clyde and Annie Rich House
Listing withdrawn August 14, 2025

• $430,000 (originally $450,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms and 2 half-baths, 2,298 square feet
• Price/square foot: $187
• Built in 1923
• Listed April 17, 2025
• Last sales: $421,000, February 2022; $235,000, November 2014
• Neighborhood: Holly Avenue Historic District (NR)
• District NRHP nomination: “The Rich House is a 1 1/2-story, side-gable, frame bungalow with a large gabled dormer and exposed raftertails. Gables on the house are shingled and have knee braces. The attached, gable front porch has battered posts on brick piers and stone steps. Windows are multi-light-over-one. Rich was a traveling salesman.”

6447 Beulah Church Road, Southeast Guilford County
Listing withdrawn August 13, 2025

• $499,000 (originally $525,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,974 square feet, 5.69 acres
• Price/square foot: $253
• Built in 1917
• Listed May 23, 2025
• Last sales: $490,000, May 2024; $315,000, May 2021; $135,500, June 2016
• Note: The property has a Liberty mailing address but is in Guilford County, about 8 miles north of Liberty.
  • Three acres of the property are fenced.

310 W. Bessemer Avenue, Greensboro
Listing withdrawn April 2023; relisted May 10, 2023
Listing withdrawn July 10, 2023; relisted July 22, 2024
Listing withdrawn August 17, 2024; relisted September 17, 2024
Listing withdrawn yet again May 10, 2025
Relisted May 30, 2025
Listing withdrawn August 8, 2025

• $639,900 (originally $650,000, later down to $619,900 and then up to $699,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,532 square feet, 0.28 acre
• Price/square foot: $253
• Built in 1915
• Listed March 22, 2023
• Last sale: $430,000, May 2022
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The property includes a detached two-car garage.
• District NRHP nomination: “Colonial Revival. Gambrel-roof; stone-veneered first floor, shingled above; projecting front porch with trellis, supported by stone piers; shed dormer across front.”
  • The original owners were Jesse Graham Bradshaw (1883-1928) and Pattie Clendenin Bradshaw (1884-1932), who bought the property in 1919 from the James E. Latham Company, the area’s developer. The address first appeared in the city directory in 1920. Bradshaw was in real estate. The Bradshaws sold the house in 1922. They bought and operated the Moore’s Spring Resort in Stokes County. Unfortunately, the hotel burned in 1925. Jesse’s cause of death in 1928 was listed as “cerebral apoplexy,” presumably a stroke.
  • David N. Gilbert and Connie H. Gilbert bought the house from the Bradshaws. David was co-proprietor of Mullen & Gilbert, cotton brokers. They owned the house until 1944.

303 McReynolds Street, Carthage, Moore County
The Addison Spencer House
Sale pending February 24 to April 7, 2025
Listing withdrawn August 8, 2025

• $430,900 (originally $462,900)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,930 square feet (per county), 0.56 acre
• Price/square foot: $147
• Built in 1916
• Listed June 12, 2024
• Last sale: July 1946, price unknown
• Neighborhood: Carthage Historic District (NR)
• Note: “The Addison Spencer House exhibits details from the Craftsman style, combined with modest references to Colonial Revival and is a proud testament to Carthage’s rich architectural heritage.”
  • The listing shows 3,609 square feet.
• District NR nomination: “gable-roofed, double-pile frame Craftsman bungalow with broad shed dormer above three-bay-facade: recessed porch with paired slender tapered posts on brick piers; double-leaf french doors below transom; six-over-one windows; shingled dormer; triangular knee braces and exposed rafter ends; interior chimneys; gabled rear wing; hipped bay on west elevation; Craftsman interior details; terraced rear yard; built for lumberman Addison.”
  • Robert Thomas Cagle (1906-1977) and Mary Rebecca Hyman Cagle (1910-2002) bought the property in 1946. They passed the property to their daughter, Hilda Cagle Morris (1938-2017). Hilda was a graduate of Peace College and Oglethorpe University and earned a master’s degree from West Virginia University. She was a school teacher for 25 years. The house is now being sold by her husband.
  • McReynolds Street was originally named Elm Street. Before it was a city street, it was part of the Fayetteville and Western Plank Road, running from Fayetteville northwest to Salem. The section in Carthage was built in 1851.

122 Crafton Street, Winston-Salem
The Neely-Reavis House
Listing withdrawn August 4, 2025

• $439,000 (originally $485,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,039 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $215
• Built in 1922
• Listed February 27, 2-025
• Last sales: $350,000, March 2022; $44,500, November 1981
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• District NR nomination: “The Neely-Reavis House is characteristic of many of the simple Craftsman-influenced houses built in the 1910s and 1920s.
  • “The two-story frame dwelling has a low hip roof with widely overhanging enclosed eaves, a hipped dormer with battered sides, grouped six-over-one and ten-over-one sash windows, a south side one-story wing, and an entrance with a pedimented, braced hood.
  • “Although the house was sheathed with vinyl siding in recent years, this has not significantly altered its overall character.”
  • Julius Dobson Neely (1896-1961) bought the property in 1921. In 1922 he and Loretta Algine Foy Neely (1896-1982) were listed at this address in the city directory. Neely was a clerk at R.J. Reynolds. He sold the house in 1929.
  • In 1943 Thomas Jefferson Reavis Sr. (1877-1960) and Addie Pegram Reavis (1893-1962) bought the house for their residence. Thomas was a police officer. They lived in the house for the rest of their lives.

512 Patrick Street, Eden, Rockingham County
The Barker-Fulp House
Listing withdrawn August 4, 2025

• $270,000 (originally $282,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,951 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $138
• Built in 1925 (or more than 25 years earlier; see note)
• Listed March 4, 2025
• Last sales: $215,000, March 2022; $150,000, January 2021
• Neighborhood: Central Leaksville Historic District (NRHP)
• Caveat emptor: “Beautiful bamboo trees in the backyard!” Bamboo is incredibly invasive and can be an absolute curse for both homeowners and their unfortunate neighbors.
• Note: The date of the house is given as 1925 in county records, as ca. 1910-1920 in the district’s National Register nomination, and as “before the turn of the century” in A Tale of Three Cities: A Pictorial History of Leaksville, Spray and Draper.
• District NRHP nomination: “A group of three exceptionally well-preserved one-and-one-half story frame bungalows, constructed between 1910 and 1920 and ornamented with a variety of decorative elements, is located at 510, 512 and 514 Patrick Street …”
  • From A Tale of Three Cities: “… a one-and-one-half story L-shaped cottage with a shed-roofed dormer and a projecting shed-roofed bay window [which appears to have been removed]. The house has an interior brick chimney and a shady bungalow style front porch carried by square paired posts set atop clapboard-covered plinths. The multi-panel windows are the most striking feature of this well-kept house. The bay window has [had, apparently] a pair of thirty-five light casement windows with a twenty-eight light window above [still there], and the dormer is lit by paired fifteen-light windows [also still there].”
  • “The home was one of the earliest bungalows to be erected in Leaksville …”

812 Gales Avenue, Winston-Salem
The Bessie and Phillip Kolodny House
Sale pending July 27-29, 2025
Listing withdrawn August 2, 2025

• $435,000 (originally $450,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,382 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $315
• Built in 1930
• Listed June 6, 2025
• Last sales: $415,000, September 2023; $317,500, April 2021; $261,000, April 2019
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property includes a detached two-car garage.
  • Since 2011, the house has been sold five times and foreclosed upon once.
  • The house was built as a rental property by David George Tutterow (1886-1942) and Ida Belle Bowles Tutterow (1891-1978), who bought the lot in 1927. George owned the Southern Furnace Company, heating and sheet metal contractors. By 1929 the house was listed in the city directory. The Tutterows lost it to foreclosure in 1931. The Prudential Insurance Company owned it until 1939.
  • The first owners to occupy the house were Bessie Winakur Kolodny (1891-1961) and Philip Kolodny (1884-1970), who bought it in 1939 (with only Bessie’s name on the deed. They lived in the house for the rest of their lives). Bessie and Phillip were born in Russia. Philip was a salesman and later owned Star Jobbing Company.
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One story; front gable; brick; six-over-six, double-hung sash; side-gable, wrap around porch; square posts and turned posts. replacements; stuccoed gable ends.”

154 Redland Road, Redland, Davie County
The Henry and Inza Smith House
Listing withdrawn August 12, 2024; relisted April 6, 2025
Listing withdrawn August 1, 2025

• $199,900 (originally $249,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,978 square feet, 1.2 acres
• Price/square foot: $101
• Built in the late 19th century (see note)
• Listed July 10, 2024
• Last sale: $70,000, May 2022
• Neighborhood: Located in the Redland community, just off U.S. 158, about 6.2 miles northwest of Advance and 2.6 miles from Interstate 40, Exit 180. The property has an Advance mailing address.
• Note: County records give the date as 1940, but the style of the house clearly indicates an older date. The Historic Architecture of Davie County (p. 125) suggests a late 19th century date, which appears more likely.
  • The Historic Architecture of Davie County: “According to local tradition, this large T-shaped two-story dwelling was built by Henry Harrison Smith (1860-1939) sometime in the late nineteenth century. The weatherboarded frame house features a small front porch and a pair of one-story gable-roofed ells. Smith was a brother of Wesley J. Smith, who built to the southwest of here.
  • “Henry Smith is said to have operated a sawmill, among other pursuits. He and his wife Inza G. (Harley) Smith (1868-1950) lived here for many years and later sold the house to George and Elle (Cook) Smith. George Smith was distantly related to Henry Smith.
  • “The George Smiths lived her for some years and then sold it to George Hartman, who later passed it to C. Duke Smith (who occupied the Wesley Smith House). Smith’s daughters own but do not occupy the house [as of the book’s publishing date, 1986].” The last surviving daughter, Frances Smith Temple (1914-2005), donated the house to the Bethlehem United Methodist Church in 1999. The church sold it later that year.
  • “The form of the house is accented by the wide cornices, the gable end returns, and the simple blocks which imitate brackets. On the front (west) elevation, a two-story, gable-roofed ell projects from the north bay and abuts the porch, which carries across the two bays to the south. the wing extends to the rear, where a smaller ell is attached to it. A shed-roofed porch connects this to a second one-story gable-roofed ell. The house has two interior chimneys with corbelled caps.”

938 W. 5th Street, Winston-Salem
The J. Kent Sheppard House
Listing withdrawn August 10, 2022; relisted March 27, 2025
Listing withdrawn late July/early August 2025

• $552,900 (originally $775,000, later $534,900)
• Converted to offices (no bedrooms), 2 half-bathrooms, 3,077 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $180
• Built in 1913 (per county)
• Listed February 18, 2022
• Last sale: $219,000, August 2002
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Previous listing: “Currently is used for separate offices, but the zoning fits multiple uses including residential and residential duplex. This property will require a substantial amount of renovation for residential purposes.”
  • The house is being marketed as a commercial property (brochure). It is listed on Circa.com as a residential property but isn’t listed with MLS (as of June 23).
  • The house has two kitchenettes.
  • District NRHP nomination: “This large Craftsman bungalow is a one-and-a-half-story house with a pebbledash first story and an aluminum-sided upper story. (The siding does not significantly diminish the integrity of the house.)
  • “It has a broad gable roof interrupted by front and rear shed dormers, an engaged front porch with heavy pebbledash columns and balustrade, and an extension of the south side of the porch which forms a terrace.
  • “The house is prominently situated on a terraced corner lot.
  • “From ca. 1914 to ca. 1956 this was the residence of the J. Kent Sheppard family. The secretary-manager of the Sheppard Veneer Co., he was the son of Benjamin J. Sheppard, who lived immediately behind at 420 Summit St.”

220 W. Market Street, Unit 307, Greensboro
Listing withdrawn July 18, 2025

• $189,000 (originally $209,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 754 square feet (per county)
• Price/square foot: $251
• Built in 1926
• Listed April 7, 2025
• HOA: $285/month
• Last sale: $147,200, April 2007
• Note: Longtime rental unit. The owner’s address of record is in New Jersey.

709 Irving Avenue, Eden, Rockingham County
Listing withdrawn July 9, 2025

• $208,000 (originally $210,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,950 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $107
• Built in 1937
• Listed May 19, 2025
• Last sale: $98,500, July 2007
• Neighborhood: Leaksville

335 Fairfax Drive, Winston-Salem
Listing withdrawn July 8, 2025

• $1.175 million (originally $1.4 million)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 4,025 square feet, 0.67 acre
• Price/square foot: $292
• Built in 1941
• Listed October 18, 2024
• Last sale: $705,000, May 2006
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista
• Note: The property includes a detached garage/guest house.
  • Attorney Archibald Craige bought the property in 1941. The house was either had been built already or was built very soon thereafter. In any case, it didn’t appear in the city directory until 1945, while Archibald was in the Army. He served as a captain in China, Burma and India. He was listed at the address only in 1946.
  • He sold the house in 1946 to Joseph Reid Fletcher Jr. (1915-1987) and Cleve S. Wharton Fletcher (1915-1994). Joseph was manager of Fletcher Brothers Inc., which manufactured work clothes. He later became president of the company until it was sold.
  • The Fletchers sold the house in 1968 to Dr. John Moossy (1925-2012) and Yvonne Reese Moossy (1927-2002). John was a professor of pathology and neurology at Bowman Gray School of Medicine. He was also a sculpture and wood carver who exhibited his work locally. Yvonne earned a bachelors degree in nursing at Louisiana State University and a masters in library and information science from the University of Pittsburgh. She was a librarian in college and medical libraries. They sold the house in 1972.

701 Summit Street, Winston-Salem
The McNair House
Listing withdrawn June 24, 2025

• $665,000 (originally $695,000)
• Originally a single-family house, now divided into four apartments; bedrooms and bathrooms not specified, 3,440 square feet, 0.30 acre
• Price/square foot: $193
• Built in 1912
• Listed March 26, 2025
• Last sale: $235,000, December 2015
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: “Currently in use as a Quadplex but can be restored back to single family home.”
• District NR nomination: “The McNair House is a large two-story frame house with a typical combination of Colonial Revival and Craftsman style influences. It has a steep hip roof with widely overhanging eaves, two unusual polygonal dormers on the front, and a wrap-around porch with square Tuscan posts and a plain balustrade. The typical one-over-one sash windows retain their wood louvered shutters. The narrow aluminum (or vinyl) siding which has been added in recent years detracts little from the overall integrity of the house.
  • “Lou McNair, widow of Murphy C. McNair, purchased the property in 1911, and she and her large family were listed at this location in the 1912 city directory. The McNairs retained ownership until 1971.”
  • Some members of the family spelled their name “McNair”; others used “MacNair.” Murphy’s name is MacNair on his gravestone, but he is identified as McNair elsewhere.
  • Lou and Murphy had 10 children. Murphy died in 1905 after a series of strokes at age 48. News accounts gave his age variously as about 49 or 60 years old. He had been a prominent Winston-Salem merchant. Lou MacNeill MacNair (1863-1924) was born in Louisiana. Her parents died when she was about three years old, and she was brought to North Carolina, where she was raised by an uncle and aunt.

• $169,000 (originally $189,900)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,403 square feet
• Price/square foot: $120
• Built in 1925
• Listed October 11, 2023
• Last sale: $189,900, September 2022
• HOA: $25/month
• Neighborhood: Downtown

• $327,600 (originally $324,900)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,919 square feet (see note)
• Price/square foot: $171
• Built in 1923
• Listed January 10, 2023
• Last sales: $270,000, April 2022
• HOA: $255/month
• Note: Fourth-floor, two-level condo includes storage unit across the hall and an assigned interior parking space.
  • County tax records show two square-foot figures — 1,919 and 2,461. The listing shows 1,651 with an additional 584 square feet unheated.

2404 Sink Street, Winston-Salem
Listing withdrawn June 23, 2025

• $99,000 (originally $105,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,275 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $78
• Built in 1927
• Listed April 24, 2025
• Last sales: $15,000, February 2025; $48,500, August 2012
• Neighborhood: Waughtown-Belview Historic District (NR)
• Note: The listing actually calls this house “charming.”
  • The owner’s address of record is in Las Vegas.
• District NR nomination: “Minimal Traditional. One story; front gable; flush eaves; asbestos shingle siding; one-over-one replacement windows; side-gable wing; gable-roof entry porch; picture window with sidelights; two-over-two, horizontal-light windows; stone retaining wall.”

902 S. Main Street, Reidsville, Rockingham County
Listing withdrawn June 21, 2025

• $270,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,357 square feet, 0.6 acre
• Price/square foot: $115
• Built in 1941
• Listed March 25, 2021
• Last sale: $139,000, May 2021
• Note: The original owner was Clara Batteux Scott (1870-1962), a widow. She lived in the house until her death at age 92.
  • In 1982 the house was bought by Pencie Clark Trent Sutton (1940-2021) and William Thomas “Tommy” Sutton (1938-2021). Pencie was a clerk for a doctors’ office. Tommy worked for Sears for 39 years. They died within six weeks of each other at ages 80 and 82, respectively, in March and April 2021. The house was sold by their estate.

724 Summit Street, Walnut Cove, Stokes County
The George and Kate Neal House
Listing withdrawn June 16, 2025

• $439,900 (originally $449,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,930 square feet, 1.36 acres
• Price/square foot: $150
• Built in 1918
• Listed January 11, 2025
• Last sale: $70,000, November 2010
• Note: The property includes a brick garden shed and other storage buildings; apple, peach, pecan and walnut trees; grapevines; and a stream.
  • The original owners were George W. Neal (1877-1961) and Kate Griffin Neal (1878-1972). They bought the property in 1917, and it remained in their family for 93 years. George was the proprietor of Neal Hardware & Furniture in Walnut Cove; he worked until suffering a stroke two days before his death at age 84. He had been postmaster and a storekeeper in the Meadows community of Stokes County before moving to Walnut Cove. He also served as county treasurer from 1910 to 1912.
  • Kate attended the State Normal and Industrial College in Greensboro. She was the first student from Stokes County to receive a scholarship to attend the school. At her death she was the oldest member of the Walnut Cove Primitive Baptist Church.
  • Ownership passed to the Neals’ daughters, Annie Kate Neal (1910-2005) and Erna E. Neal (1919-2009). Erna’s estate sold the house in 2010.

108 Oakwood Street, High Point
The Thomas J. Gold House
Listing withdrawn October 6, 2022; relisted April 3, 2023
Sale pending June 8-30, 2023
Listing withdrawn July 27, 2023; relisted June 12, 2024
Listing withdrawn June 13. 2025

• $750,000 (originally $325,000, later $319,000, then $410,000)
  • John McEnroe would like a word.
• 13 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 4,224 square feet, 0.48 acre
• Price/square foot: $178
• Built in 1910
• Listed September 8, 2022
• Last sale: $110,000, November 2016
• Neighborhood: Oakwood Historic District (NRHP)
• Note: The previous and current listings contain no photos of the interior. The photos above are from Google Street View.
• Previous listing: “Huge home being used as a 13 room rooming house but can easily be used as a 11-12 room single family home”
• District NRHP nomination: “prominent frame house influenced by the Colonial Revival style in its massing and symmetrical fenestration and by the Craftsman mode in the supports of its impressive wrap front porch; tall side gable originally with wooden shingle accents on second story and weatherboards at first; now covered in vinyl.”
• Thomas Jackson Gold Sr. (1879-1961) was born in Shelby. He was a High Point city judge, state legislator and attorney. His wife, Nina Josephine Wheeler Gold (1887-1964), was born in High Point. Thomas was a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill and Wake Forest law school. He was elected to the state House and Senate in the 1930s. He also served as president of the first Red Cross chapter organized in High Point and as president of the Kiwanis.

476 Bringle Ferry Road, Denton, Davidson County
The Snider House
Listing withdrawn June 13, 2025

• $354,900 (originally $360,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,000 square feet (per county), 1.23 acres
• Price/square foot: $177
• Built in 1900
• Listed May 1, 2025
• Last sales: $320,000, December 2021; $164,000, December 2013
• Neighborhood: Healing Springs, about 4 1/2 miles southeast of Denton.
• Note: The property includes a barn/shed.
  • The State Historic Preservation Office identifies it as the Snider House.
  • Albert Monroe Snider (1891-1959) bought the house and its then 43-acre property in 1948. His wife, Rena Butler Snider (1898-1995), and other family members sold it in 1992. Albert graduated from the Liberty-Piedmont Institute in Wallburg, attended Wake Forest College and earned undergraduate and masters degrees from the University of North Carolina. He was a veteran of World War I and a longtime school teacher. Rena was a graduate of the Woman’s College. She, too, was a school teacher.

• $399,000 (originally $450,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,604 square feet, 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot: $249
• Built in 1919 (per county, but probably a bit later; see note)
• Listed May 23, 2024
• Last sales: $265,000, March 2024; $9,500, June 1978
• Neighborhood: Westerwood
• Note: The property had only four owners from 1919 to 2024, but it has been empty for many years. With its unusual design — it doesn’t have a conventional front side — distinctive masonry and wood-shingled roof, it has a striking presence on a prominent corner in one of Greensboro’s most notable historic neighborhoods.
  • The original owners were Ersell Freeman Neale (1890-1969) and William McCormick Neale Sr. (1885-1947). They bought the lot in 1919 and were listed in the city directory in 1921. Only Ersell’s name was on the deed, which is unusual for the time but not unique. A 1925 mortgage, though, was issued to “Ersell F. Neal etvir.” William was a consulting mechanical engineer. Ersell lived in the house until she died in 1970.
  • The house was sold in 1972, 1974 and then in 1976 to the owner who sold it in March after more than 46 years.
  • Preservation Greensboro: “The house was likely designed by Will Neale, for it originally had an eclectic appearance that blended several styles within a front-gabled roof house. Features include a steep pitched roof, colonial boxed eaves with returns, paired six-over-one windows, and masonry battered post-on-pier porch supports. The house is sheathed in ROWLOCK and SHINER brick bond and sports heavy granite windows sills. The 1924 photo [in Art Work of Piedmont Section of North Carolina, seen above] shows awnings on west-facing windows and a tile roof. Interior appointments include an unconventional and compact floor plan with ‘engineered’ built-in cabinets and closets.”
  • Photo 1 above courtesy of Preservation Greensboro

319 Cherry Street, Eden, Rockingham County
Listing withdrawn January 1, 2025; relisted February 4, 2025
Listing withdrawn May 30, 2025

• $169,900 (originally $179,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,932 square feet, 0.28 acre
• Price/square foot: $88
• Built in 1925
• Listed June 29, 2024
• Last sale: $10,000, September 1970
• Neighborhood: Leaksville
• Note: The house was owned from 1941 to 1970 by Joseph Swanson Warren (1896-1982) and Maybelle Washburn Warren (1897-1951). Joseph was a millwright and also worked for Fieldcrest Mills.
  • In 1970, Melvin Brooks (1925-2009) and Norma Brumbeloe Brooks (1935-2024) bought the house. It’s now being sold by their heirs. Melvin worked for Stoneville Furniture Company and for many years at Fuzzy’s BarBQ in Madison. Norma was an office clerk with Fieldcrest Mills.

2511 Pineway Drive, Burlington, Alamance County
The Edgar and Margaret Dameron House
Listing withdrawn May 17, 2025

• $1.325 million (originally $1.485 million)
• 4 bedrooms, 4 full bathrooms, 3 half-bathrooms, 5,290 square feet, 0.97 acre
• Price/square foot: $250
• Built in 1966
• Listed February 21, 2025
• Last sale: $412,000, May 2020
• Neighborhood: Alamance Country Club
• Listing: “The partially finished basement features a wood burning fireplace, charcoal grill, a half bath, and a safe room.”
• Note: The house was built by Edgar Samuel Williamson Dameron Jr. (1920-2009) and Margaret Abbott Dameron (1927-2019), who bought the property in 1962. Edgar served as a combat engineer in North Africa, Italy and Sicily during World War II. He practiced law with his father before serving as district attorney in Alamance County. He also served as a member and as chairman of the Burlington city school board. He taught Sunday school for 63 years at Front Street United Methodist Church and was an accomplished woodworker and kite-maker.
  • Margaret designed the home’s basic floor plan; architect William Roy Wallace drew the working plans. “The architectural style is basically Georgian, having a central main portion with symmetrical wings. The facade is classical revival with Doric fluted columns and an entrance framed by Doric pilasters supported by a broken ogee pediment with a pineapple finial.
  • “The house is built around a central stair hall with a stair arch at the rear and major first floor rooms to the left and right.
  • “The stairway, featuring fluted ballisters and brackets with acanthus scrolls, is similar to that of Gunston Hall, Fairfax, County, Va.” (The Daily Times-News, December 7, 1975, by the longtime “Women’s Editor,” the wonderful Essie Norwood).

631 Highland Drive, Eden, Rockingham County
The Raney and Sallie Lee House
Listing withdrawn May 8, 2025

• $346,000 (originally $369,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,318 square feet, 1.14 acres
• Price/square foot: $149
• Built in 1960
• Listed July 8, 2024
• Last sale: $340,000, July 2023
• Neighborhood: Leaksville

1209 N. Main Street, Apartment A, High Point
Listing withdrawn May 8, 2025

• $98,000
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 470 square feet
• Price/square foot: $209
• Built in 1938
• Listed April 27, 2025
• Last sale: $54,900, July 2020
• HOA: $179/month
• Neighborhood: Emerywood, Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NR)
• Note: For sale by owner

• $299,000
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,123 square feet
• Price/square foot: $266
• Built in 1924
• Listed April 17, 2025
• Last sale: $115,500, July 2014
• HOA: $336/month

121 N. Main Street, Lexington
Blog post — A Huge Condo in a 1920 Building in Downtown Lexington, $535,000
Listing withdrawn May 1, 2025

• $535,000 (originally $600,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 4,088 square feet
• Price/square foot: $131
• Built in 1920
• Listed November 13, 2024
• Last sales: $175,000, December 2016; $264,000, January 2015
• Neighborhood: Uptown Lexington Historic District (NR)
• Note: Second floor of a building on North Main at East 2nd Street.
  • The condo has a street-level front entrance on Main Street and a gated, second-floor back entrance with a small deck off East 2nd Avenue.
  • The unit has a dedicated parking space; the listing doesn’t say where it is.

3101 Old Greensboro Road, Winston-Salem

• Auction canceled; it was scheduled for Wednesday April 30, 2025.
• 5 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,514 square feet (per county), 1.19 acre (per county)
• Built in 1927
• Last sales: $210,000, September 2020; $35,000, May 2019
• Note: The property has changed hands six times since 2004; this is the second foreclosure.
  • The interior photos above are from the 2020 listing.

401 Worth Street, Asheboro, Randolph County
Listing withdrawn April 29, 2025

• $335,000 (originally $339,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,154 square feet, 0.31 acre
• Price/square foot: $156
• Built in 1940
• Listed March 3, 2025
• Last sale: $130,000, March 2024
• Note: Included only because its living room is the worst room I’ve ever seen, even in a flipped house. I usually just ignore bad taste and bad renovations, but that one room is such a mess it has to be seen.

2037 Waughtown Street, Winston-Salem
Listing withdrawn September 27, 2023; relisted November 30, 2024
Sale pending February 8 to March 13, 2025
Listing withdrawn April 23, 2025

• $215,000 (originally $230,000, later $235,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,227 square feet, 0.42 acre
• Price/square foot: $97
• Built circa 1928
• Listed June 27, 2023
• Last sale: $45,000, August 2014
• Neighborhood: Waughtown-Belview Historic District (NR)
• Note: A previous listing noted that there are “two bonus rooms that can easily be converted to bedrooms with appropriate heating.”
  • County records give a 1930 date for the house, which appears a bit late (see below).
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One and a half story; side gable; shed-roof dormer; vinyl siding; hexagonal multi-light-over-one windows; battered columns and brick posts with ‘T’ capitals on brick piers; knee braces.
  • “This was the site of Smith and Phillips General Merchandise and Building Materials store in 1902.
  • “Appears on 1928 Sanborn map.”

130 Shiloh Road, Troy, Montgomery County
Sale pending January 8-27, 2025
Listing withdrawn March 31, 2025

• $279,000 (originally $279,000, later up to $310,000 and then down to $269,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,558 square feet, 1.52 acres
• Price/square foot: $179
• Built in 1920
• Listed March 19, 2024
• Last sale: $239,000, February 2024; $1,000, July 1975
• Note: The original owners were Andrew Jackson Burrow (1869-1945) and his wife, Nancy Angeline Baldwin Burrow (1864-1937), who bought the property in 1920. Andrew was a sheet metal worker. In 1945 ownership passed to their son Luther Gordon Burrow (1892-1972) and and daughter-in-law Ina Steed Burrow (1894-1961). Their heirs sold the house in 1975.
  • The home was owned from 1975 to 2024 by Brenda Morton Johnson (1943-2022). She was born in Montgomery County and graduated from Montgomery High School. She had degrees from Appalachian State and UNC Charlotte and worked as a special education teacher for 43 years.

220 W. Market Street, Unit 208, Greensboro
Listing withdrawn March 29, 2025

• $206,000
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 700 square feet (per county)
• Price/square foot: $294
• Built in 1926
• Listed March 28, 2025
• HOA: $285/month
• Last sales: $145,000, September 2021; $76,200, March 2021
• Note: Online listings don’t give a unit number; 208 is assumed based on past the last sale date (Unit 208 was sold on September 13, 2021, for $145,000, the date and price givenin the listing).

165 Virginia Street, Unit 10, Mount Airy
Listing withdrawn March 28, 2025

• $409,000 (originally $429,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,310 square feet
• Price/square foot: $177
• Built in 1923
• Listed September 27, 2024
• Last sales: $262,500, January 2019; $269,000, April 2018
• HOA: $255/month
• Note: Rental unit, owned by an LLC in Asheville

709 Forrest Street, High Point
The Thomas and Viola Moran House
Sale pending March 20, 2024, to March 13, 2025
Listing withdrawn March 13, 2025

• $320,000
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,543 square feet, 0.26 acre
• Price/square foot: $126
• Built in 1945 (per county; see note)
• Listed February 16, 2024
• Last sale: $210,000, April 2019
• Neighborhood: Park Place
• Note: The original owners appear to have been Thomas J. Moran (possibly J. Thomas Moran) and Viola Moran (dates unknown for both). They were listed at the address in 1940. Both worked in textile mills. Thomas later sold real estate. They sold the house in 1962.

1118 Glenwood Avenue, Greensboro
Listing withdrawn March 7, 2025

• $289,000 (originally $299,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,766 square feet, 0.35 acre
• Price/square foot: $104
• Built in 1905
• Listed June 28, 2024
• Last sale: $56,000, July 1992
• Neighborhood: Glenwood
• Note: No central air conditioning
  • The house has two kitchens.
  • The listing includes no photos of the interior.

• $575,000
• 4 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 3,026 square feet
• Price/square foot: $190
• Built in 1912 (per county, but probably earlier; see note)
• Listed April 17, 2023
• Last sale: $389,500, February 2023
• Note: The house was built at 705 N. Greene Street; it was moved to 701 N. Greene in February 2024. The Preservation Greensboro Development Fund, a local builder and First Presbyterian Church worked together and found a buyer to save it from demolition. It’s now at the corner of Greene Street and Fisher Avenue, facing Greene.
  • The home will be placed on a new foundation, and a one-bedroom basement apartment will be roughed in. The apartment will have nine-foot ceilings and be about 1,320 square feet.
  • The home will be part of a condo association with the four-unit apartment building at 208 Fisher Avenue, right behind the home’s new location.
• District NRHP nomination: “Colonial Revival Foursquare. Simply finished, hip-roofed house with front hipped dormers, plain cornerboards and friezeboards, and round-columned front porch.”
  • Ownership of the land can be traced back to Captain Basil Fisher, the original developer of Fisher Park. After his death it passed through several hands until it was sold to sisters Emma and Florence Monroe in 1912.
  • The house was built between 1914 and 1915. Emma Jane Monroe (1860-1950) lived to age 90 and had no formal occupation listed in city directories. Florence Estelle Monroe (1874-1968) lived to the age of 94. She was a stenographer and notary for area law firms, and she was active in the N.C. Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs. She served as local president in 1923 and as state vice president and historian. The house remained in their names until they died.

15366 Old Highway 16, Grassy Creek, Ashe County
The Walter Greer House
Listing withdrawn February 16, 2025

• $449,900
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,532 square feet, 0.96 acre
• Price/square foot: $127
• Built in 1893
• Listed August 15, 2024
• Last sale: 320,000, July 2022
• Neighborhood: Grassy Creek Historic District (NR)
• Note: A house is in a relatively rare rural historic district.
  • The Ashe County GIS website indicates Grassy Creek didn’t suffer damage from Hurricane Helene.
  • County records give a date of 1850.
• District NR nomination: “[T]he Walter Greer House has extensive scroll-sawn and turned ornament on the porches, gables and eaves. The two-story frame house is set on a brick foundation and faces northwest. It is essentially a square plan with projections at the east, west and south corners.
  • “The front porch carries from the west corner projection across the northwest front, wraps the north corner and continues down the northeast side. The porch is supported by pairs of turned posts which are connected by spindle friezes above the brackets. Additional brackets, set between the posts and perpendicular to the spindle friezes support the eaves of the roof, beneath which is a frieze with applied diamond-shaped sawn woodwork. No balustrade remains.
  • “Brackets also positioned above the windows and at the corners of the house are continued under the eaves and carried, with the diamond motif frieze, around the irregular outline. The gable ends are decorated with rows of shaped shingles, rake boards repeating the diamond motif from the frieze, and ornamental spandrels. The rear porch has been enclosed. The window surrounds are of plain unmolded boards with molded cornices projecting above. The entrance bay surround encloses the door with its sidelights and transom which have lost their scroll-sawn ornament. The Eastlake-style front door has a geometric arrangement of applied molding connected by bosses around the stained and etched glass panels …
  • “In the course of the nineteenth century a number of farm communities developed along the north and south forks of the New River, but the most prominent was along Grassy Creek, a tributary of the New River. … The most prominent among the farming families of the valley, the Greer family, came in the second decade of the nineteenth century. During four generations of ownership over the next hundred years, the Greers, who raised pure-bred Shorthorn cattle, became the largest landholders in the area and established six individual farms there. Sharing common boundaries and fences, the families also probably pooled resources and machinery.
  • “The farms have large two-story dwellings with decorated gables, eaves, and porches, each surrounded by a full complement of outbuildings. The Greers introduced dairying on a commercial basis in the early twentieth century and, with others, established a cheese factory in 1915. This operation folded by 1920 and the Greers left soon after removing their dairying operations to Maryland.”

938 Galloway Street, Eden, Rockingham County
The Sharpe House
Listing withdrawn February 13, 2025

• $100,000 (originally $125,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,053 square feet, 0.46 acre
• Price/square foot: $49
• Built in 1916
• Listed December 13, 2024
• Last sales: $20,000, June 2021; $18,000, June 2003; $47,000, August 2002 (foreclosure)
• Neighborhood: Leaksville
• Note: No central air conditioning
  • The house is probably named for John Calvin Sharp (1856-1917), who bought the property in 1893. His father also was named John Calvin Sharp. They didn’t use “senior” and “junior”; the son apparently went by his middle name.

213 Woodrow Avenue, High Point
The Sidney H. Tomlinson House
Listing withdrawn February 11, 2025

• $310,000 (originally $330,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,092 square feet, 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot: $100
• Built in 1907
• Listed August 11, 2024
• Last sales: $250,000, February 2022; $119,500, July 2000
• Neighborhood: Sherrod Park Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: From the 2022 listing, a drone video
  • The house bears a plaque stating that it’s listed on the National Register. It’s on the NRHP as part of the neighborhood, not as an individual building.
• District NRHP nomination: “The oldest house in Sherrod Park actually dates to 1907, and is a large frame Late Queen Anne style house. It was built at 700 N. Main Street for Sidney H. Tomlinson, owner of the Tomlinson Chair Factory in High Point.
  • “In 1924 Tomlinson moved to his new large Tudor Revival house on Hillcrest Drive in Emerywood. His old house was moved off N. Main Street, which was changing from the main residential avenue to a commercial boulevard, to its current location at 213 Woodrow Avenue in Sherrod Park” by 1931, according the the city directory.
  • “The weatherboard is now concealed by vinyl siding, but the Sidney H. Tomlinson House still contributes a unique Victorian accent to the 1920s and 1930s streetscape. The two-story frame house has a high hipped roof with dormer windows and a two-storied, cross-gabled side bay.”

432 Lockland Avenue, Winston-Salem
Listing withdrawn February 7, 2025

• $484,900 (originally $549,900)
• 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, 2,867 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $169
• Built in 1928
• Listed February 23, 2024
• Last sale: $262,000, November 2019
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Note: Most of the historic character of the interior has been eliminated. For a house this expensive, a buyer should expect better than cheap vinyl siding and replacement windows.
  • Owned by an out-of-state LLC
  • County property records classify it as a quadriplex.
• District NR nomination: “Bungalow. Unusual form. One and a half story with attic; side gable; brick and aluminum siding; shed-roof dormer; gable-roof dormer surmounts shed dormer; shingled gable ends; eight-over-eight and six-over-six, double-hung sash; engaged porch; brick piers; architrave and pilasters at entry; stone retaining wall.”
  • The original owners were Daniel Webster Messick (1888-1949) and Bertha Legrand Carpenter Brewer Messick (1890-1972). They were listed at the address in 1929, the first year it was included in the city directory. Webster had a grocery store on East 5th Street. By 1934, they had moved.
  • The house was owned by Thelma Scism Tucker (1907-1995) from 1950 until her death. There’s little information available about her online. In 1940, she was living in Asheboro with her husband, Herman Daniel Tucker. The 1950 census listed her at 432 Lockland with five borders. The city directory in 1951 and subsequent years showed her at the address as Mrs. Thelma S. Tucker, but with no occupation or husband listed. Her obituary said she had a son whose surname was Scism.

5710 Suttonwood Drive, Sedgefield, Guilford County
The Claude and Nelly Sutton House
Listing withdrawn February 6, 2025

• $2.25 million
• 4 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, 2 half-bathrooms, 6,017 square feet, 3.84 acres
• Price/square foot: $374
• Built in 1939
• Listed August 1, 2024
• Last sale: $600,000, April 2001
• Neighborhood: Sedgefield
• Is this a thing now: “Brazilian marble counters”
• Note: The property includes a saltwater pool, outdoor kitchen, pool house, a whisky/wine room and a five-car garage.
  • Suttonwood Drive is a two-block-long street running into Sedgefield from West Gate City Boulevard to Rockingham Road. This is the first house on the north side of the street after turning off Gate City. At the corner of Gate City and Suttonwood, a McDonald’s backs up to this property (see GIS map above).
  • The original owners were Claude Stanford Sutton (1901-1999) and Nelly Mabel Griffin Sutton (1906-1999). They bought the property in 1939; the street name then was Davidson Road. The property was sold by their estate in 2001. Claude and Nelly died 12 days apart in January and February 1999.
  • Claude founded Sutton Woodworking Machinery. He was a horseman and was active in the Sedgefield Hunt.
  • Nelly was a skilled gardener and carpenter. She bred roses, naming new varieties after her grandchildren. According to her obituary, she said if she had been born 50 years later, she would have chosen to be a carpenter.

101 W. 5th Avenue, Lexington, Davidson County
The Charles and Elizabeth Wall House
Listing withdrawn December 16, 2023; relisted January 9, 2023
Listing withdrawn June 15, 2024; relisted August 29, 2024
Listing withdrawn late January/early February 2025 (exact date not recorded)

• $400,000 (originally $850,000, later $395,000)
• 2 buildings, total of 10 bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, 6,006 square feet, 1.39 acres
• Price/square foot: $67
• Built in 1900 and 1951
• Listed July 5, 2023
• Last sale: $130,000, September 2021
• Neighborhood: Lexington Residential Historic District (NR)
• Note: Renovation being abandoned part-way through. The historic character of the interior has been almost completely wiped out.
  • Previous listing: “Engineering plans already done for four 2 Bedroom, 2 Bath apartments. … Second building has two 1 Bedroom, 1 Bath apartments that have already been updated and rehabbed.”
• District NR nomination: “Two-story weatherboarded Queen Anne with a blue 5-V crimp hip roof, projecting pedimented bays on the north and east elevations and hip-roofed entry porches supported by square posts; 1/1 sash, sidelights flanking front door, gabled and pyramidal-hip-roofed dormers with vents, brick interior chimney with tall corbelled stack. The house appears on the 1913 Sanborn map. Mr. Wall was the co-owner of C.M. Wall and Son, a lumber company.”
• What it looked like in December 2022:

358 W. Perry Road, Chatham County
Sale pending January 14-26, 2025
Listing withdrawn January 26, 2025

• $118,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,255 square feet, 10.52 acres
• Price/square foot: $52
• Built in 1900
• Listed January 13, 2025
• Last sale: 1955, price unknown
• Neighborhood: Located 7 1/2 miles north of Siler City and about 6 miles southeast of Liberty. It has a Siler City mailing address.
• Note: The owners are just giving up on this inherited house: “Home is sold As Is and all the belonings in the home and outbuildings go with the home. An agent MUST accompany all showings. Enter the home at your own risk.”
  • The house was acquired in 1955 by Paul Staley Perry (1917-1987) and Carlene Estelle Williams Perry (1824-2013) from Paul’s sister Juanita Lillian Perry Garrett (1909-1993). Online records suggest she had acquired it from their father, Atlas Cletus Perry (1889-1954). Atlas may have acquired it from another member of the Perry family in 1912.
  • Paul worked for the Liberty Chair Company. The house is being sold by Paul and Carlene’s grandchildren.

110 Hawkins Road, Orange County
Sale pending October 22 to November 2, 2024
Sale pending December 12, 2024, to January 24, 2025
Listing withdrawn January 24, 2025

• $225,000 (originally $250,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,774 square feet, 10.94 acres
• Price/square foot: $127
• Built in 1871
• Listed October 18, 2024
• Last sale: $75,000, August 2001
• Neighborhood: Just off N.C. Highway 86, 4.3 miles south of Prospect Hill and 3.6 miles northeast of Cedar Grove. The property has a Cedar Grove mailing address.
• Listing: “Very rustic”
  • Originally a two-room log cabin, the house received multiple additions of rooms and porches, “likely” in the 1920s.
  • The property includes a pond.

1400 Barnes Street, Reidsville, Rockingham County
Sale pending November 8 to December 30, 2024
Listing withdrawn January 14, 2025

• $185,000 (originally $185,000, later $150,000, then back to $185,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,582 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $117
• Built in 1925
• Listed September 29, 2024
• Last sales: $70,000, June 2024; $20,000, April 2012
• Note: Flipped house, very quick turnaround. Caveat emptor.

308 S. Carolina Avenue, Boonville, Yadkin County
Listing withdrawn January 12, 2025

• $289,900 (originally $344,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,030 square feet, 1.24 acres
• Price/square foot: $96
• Built in 1895
• Listed July 23, 2024
• Last sales: $42,000, May 1993; February 1904, price not recorded on deed
• Note: The earliest documented owners were Robert Byron Horn (1870-1918) and Pearl Barbour Horn (1871-1934). They sold the house in 1904 to banker Foard Woodruff Day (1868-1939) and Elizabeth Crouch Day (1868-1927). Foard was a graduate of Wake Forest College and taught at Stokes Academy before moving to Boonville. He was president of Boonville Bank and served on the school board. In 1993, a granddaughter sold the house to the current owners.

410 Beaumont Street, Winston-Salem
Sale pending November 9-21, 2024
Listing withdrawn January 6, 2025

• $220,500
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,627 square feet, 0.07 acre
• Price/square foot: $136
• Built in 1920
• Listed October 21, 2024
• Last sale: $200,000, March 2022
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One and a half story; side gable; asbestos shingle siding; front-gable dormer; four (vertical)-over-one, double-hung sash; gable-roof porch; battered posts on brick piers; exposed rafter tails; knee braces.”
  • The original residents were James Walker Bowles (1862-1930) and. Minnie Lee Messick Bowles (1878-1932). James was a carpenter.