Piedmont Historic Homes

1365 Reynolda Road, Winston-Salem
Listing withdrawn January 28, 2026

• $699,900 (originally $789,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,341 square feet (per county), 0.63 acre
• Price/square foot: $299
• Built in 1940
• Listed August 8, 2025
• Last sale: $352,000, April 2025
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista
• Note: Flip job with a very quick turnover and a wildly higher price. On a price per square foot basis, this was the most expensive historic house in Winston-Salem now for sale, as of its listing date.
  • The listing goes on and on about the high-end renovation, but for this kind of money a buyer should expect restored windows, not cheap replacements. Caveat emptor.
  • The original owner was Jane Van Hoy Nading Fleenor (1917-1986). She received the property in 1940 from her parents, Henry Arthur Nading Sr. (1873-1955) and M. Louise Montgomery Nading (1893-1982), and built the house soon after. Jane was a graduate of Salem College and taught in the Forsyth County schools. Her husband, Wiley O’Dell Fleenor (1910-1992) was secretary of the YMCA and administrator at Camp Hanes. He later worked in the insurance business. Their children sold the house in 1990.

224wbanner

224 W. Banner Avenue, Winston-Salem
The Jonathan and Flora Davis House
Listing withdrawn January 22, 2026

• $455,000 (originally $475,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,511 square feet, 0.44 acre
• Price/square foot: $301
• Built in 1904
• Listed November 19, 2025
• Last sales: $423,000, June 2025; $83,500, June 1998
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property includes two lots with the empty lot to the left of the house.
  • The house is next door to a grand Gothic Revival church, built in 1916, now known as Redemption Hill Church.
• District NR nomination: “L-shaped frame house with gable roof; hipped-roof porch supported by turned posts with sawn brackets; turned balustrade; two interior chimneys. Shingled gable ends and weatherboarded. Davis (wife Flora) was a chair maker, he moved from E. 5th Street.”

209wbessemer

209 W. Bessemer Avenue, Greensboro
The Edward and Elizabeth Wills House
Listing withdrawn December 1, 2025; relisted December 5, 2025
Sale pending December 17, 2025, to January 21, 2026
Listing withdrawn January 21, 2026

• $795,000 (originally $875,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,412 square feet, 0.30 acre
• Price/square foot: $233
• Built in 1924
• Listed August 29, 2025
• Last sales: $ $679,900, June 2021; $230,000, July 1996
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The property includes an in-ground pool, an amenity rarely found in historic districts (the 2021 listing said it was a saltwater pool), also a freshwater spa and a koi pond.
  • The listing calls Fisher Park “Greensboro’s oldest neighborhood.” It’s not. College Hill is the city’s oldest neighborhood. It’s always a good idea to deal with real-estate agents who actually know what they’re talking about.
• District NR nomination: “Col Rev foursquare, 1920-25, E.S. Wills, Pres., Wills Book Stationary Co; VP, Gboro Real Estate Bd, Sec/trs, Matheson-Wills Real Estate Co”
  • Edward Swain Wills (1874-1947) and Elizabeth Crawford Wills (1888-1978) were listed at the address in 1924, the first year it appeared in the city directory. They lost the house to foreclosure in 1934 but were able to buy a house in Westerwood just a few months later. When Edward died, they were living at 309 McIver Street, a location that is now part of the Sullivan Science Building at UNC Greensboro.
  • Edward started Wills Book & Stationery downtown in 1904 after working for the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railroad. It survived well into the ’90s, then located at Four Seasons mall. The company also had at least one store out of town for many years, in Raleigh at the North Hills Shopping Center. He operated his real estate business from 1917 to 1943, in partnership with Junius Matheson, former professor of education at the N.C. College for Women, until Matheson’s death in 1929.
  • Edward was a charter member of Grace Methodist Church and served as choir director for 30 years. He was a 27-year member of the local Red Cross board.

307e5th

307 E. 5th Street, Burlington, Alamance County
The John D. Robertson House
Listing withdrawn January 12, 2026

• $335,000
• 6 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,459 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $136
• Built in 1922
• Listed December 6, 2025
• Last sales: $278,000, February 2022; $123,000, November 2018
• Neighborhood: South Broad-East Fifth Streets Historic District (NR)
• Note: For sale by out-of-town owner. Rental property.
  • The property includes a one-car garage built with the same stone as the house.
• District NR nomination: “Intact 1 1/2 story side-gabled bungalow of random ashlar stone, with engaged porch supported on ashlar piers.
  • “Other features include a gabled front dormer, decorative brackets, exposed rafter tails, 1/1 sash windows, and gables stuccoed to simulate wood shakes.
  • “Early owners of the house include John Robertson, a city employee; Guy E. Fitzgerald, owner of Alamance Vending Co., and R.E. Barnett, a pharmacist.”

904wharton

904 Wharton Street, Greensboro
The Lorenzo and Albinia Winslow House
Listing withdrawn January 5, 2026

• $325,000 (originally $375,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,142 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $285
• Built in 1928 (per county, but probably a few years earlier; see note)
• Listed August 22, 2025
• Last sales: $285,000, April 2023; $205,000, June 2021
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property is in the National Register historic district but outside the local Fisher Park Historic District.
• District NR nomination: “Shingled bungalow with stone porch piers and chimney”
  • The original owners were Lorenzo S. Winslow (1892-1976) and Albinia Daggett Fish Winslow (1889-1969), who bought the property in 1923, the first year the address appeared in the city directory. Lorenzo was one of Greensboro’s most significant architects. He had come to Greensboro to work for Harry Barton and by 1923 was designing homes for A.K. Moore Realty. He may well have designed this house for himself.
  • Lorenzo went into practice on his own in 1927. Among his local works are the Winburn Court Apartments on Tate Street, the Irving Park Apartments on North Elm Street, the Mary and Hugh Preddy House at 303 W. Greenway Drive North and the R.L. Holloway House at 2100 W. Market Street.
  • In 1932 he moved to Washington to work for the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks. North Carolina Architects & Builders: He became the White House architect after he won a competition to design a heated swimming pool for President Franklin Roosevelt’s therapy for polio (photo from National Archives). Between 1948 and 1952 he directed the removal and reconstruction of the entire interior of the White House.

• $119,900 (originally $249,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,442 square feet, 0.42 acre
• Price/square foot: $35
• Built in 1915
• Listed January 16, 2025
• Last sale: $80,000, February 2022
• Neighborhood: Old Post Road Historic District (local), Reidsville Historic District (NR)
• Note: The house has been divided into four 1-bedroom, 1-bathroom apartments, possibly since the late 1960s.
  • Next door to a former Primitive Baptist church, since 2009 the Christian non-denominational Ramah Restoration Outreach Center.
  • The address originally was 79 Lindsey.
• District NR nomination: “Built in 1909 for J.W. [James William] Millner, a tobacco factory foreman, this two-frame Colonial Revival house sits well back from the street on a well-shaded lot.
  • “Now converted into apartments, the house is by a high hipped roof with hip dormers on the facade and east and west side elevations. One-story semi-hexagonal bays are located on the east elevation and in the east bay of the three-bay facade, which is spanned by a one-story porch with classical columns and turned balustrade, extending to the west elevation.
  • “Corbeled-cap brick chimneys jut through the roof’s east and west slopes, and a one-story wing extends across the rear. Since the 1978 survey, a second floor recessed balcony in the northwest corner of the house has been enclosed.”
  • James later moved to Florida. On a return visit in 1927, he died of a heart attack. Obituaries said he died at the home of his sisters on Lindsey Street. Sisters Hattie Lee Millner (1868-1961), Annie Eldridge Millner (1871-1964) and Jane Watt Millner (1870-1964, also known as Jennie), were listed at the residence from the late 1920s to 1950s. They were interior decorators.
  • By 1932, their brother William M. Millner and sister-in-law Margaret Millner (dates unknown for both) were living in the house as well, apparently for a relatively brief time. William was secretary-treasurer of Reidsville Motor Company, the local Chevrolet dealership. Their brother Wallace B. Millner was president.
  • Annie, Hattie and Jennie were still listed at the house as late as 1959. Annie lived to be 92 years old; Hattie and Jennie lived to be 93.
  • The house was sold by a nephew in 1967. It was sold again in 1968 to an owner with many properties in Rockingham County, who owned it until 2014.

319 N. Washington Avenue, Reidsville, Rockingham County
Listing withdrawn January 1, 2026

• $27,000 (originally $89,900)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 900 square feet, 0.26 acre
• Price/square foot: $30
• Built in 1924
• Listed January 13, 2025
• Last sales: $24,000, April 2023; $17,000, July 2018