Piedmont Historic Homes

5008rural

5008 Rural Hall Road, Winston-Salem
Listing withdrawn April 1, 2026

• $330,000 (originally $350,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,314 square feet, 0.84 acre
• Price/square foot: $143
• Built in 1910
• Listed October 10, 2025
• Last sale: $85,000, August 2021
• Neighborhood: Montview-Ogburn Station
• Note: The house is set much farther back from the street than its neighbors.
  • It’s traditional to paint the ceiling of the front porch blue to evoke the sky. On this front porch, it’s the floor of the front porch that distinctively evokes the sky.
  • Southern Colonial style, combining Colonial Revival and Greek Revival. The symmetrical façade is Colonial Revival; the two-story portico with classical columns and small triangular front gable with a pediment are Greek Revival features. The simple trim and minimal ornamentation are more modest than those of 19th-century Greek Revival structures.

• In 1918 Charles Rober Ferguson (1887-1958) and Carrie Pearl Ogburn Ferguson (1884-1958) bought the property, then more than 6 acres, and owned it until their deaths in 1958. Pearl worked as secretary-treasurer of the Book & Stamp Company. She led the Pearl Ogburn Class at Oak Summit M.E. Church and was active in the Oak Summit Home Demonstration Club. Her connection to the name of the Montview-Ogburn Station neighborhood, if any, is unknown.
• Charles was born in Stokes County; he was one of 13 children in the family (Cora Mildred, Otelia, Lottie May, Roger, Walter, William, Martha Medlia, Nannie Lelia, Husie Pauline, Mattie Mahalia and Mary), 10 of whom survived infancy. Charles worked for Norfolk & Western Railroad until 1927. He was a prominent duck-pin bowler and operated a bowling alley until he retired in 1941. Around 1947, he constructed a building on the property and opened a store, Early American Furniture Company (the building no longer exists).
• Charles was reported to have long suffered from what the Winston-Salem Journal called “a nervous condition.” On February 7, 1958, he killed Carrie and then himself.

401nmendenhall

401 N. Mendenhall Street, Greensboro
The Hugh and Ann Wolfe House
Sale pending July 13-30, 2018
Listing withdrawn July 30, 2018; relisted October 27, 2025
Listing withdrawn March 25, 2026
Blog post (2018) — Classic House of the Week: A Fine Example of 1920s Westerwood Elegance, $339,500

• $679,000 (originally $339,500, later $719,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,337 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $291
• Built in 1926 (per county, but probably a few years earlier; see note)
• Listed May 8, 2018
• Last sale: $295,000, June 2006
• Neighborhood: Westerwood
• Note: The price is now twice as expensive as it was when it failed to sell in 2018.
  • This is the fourth time since 2011 that the owners have tried to sell the house, which is odd in Westerwood, an especially popular neighborhood. A construction dumpster has been sitting behind the house for quite a while, so it may have received some significant attention inside.
  • Not owner occupied, longtime rental property.
  • The pictures with the new listing are of unusually poor quality. This blog post has photos from the 2018 listing, which were conspicuously poor, too.
  • The property was bought in 1920 by Dr. Hugh C. Wolfe (1892-1957). He and Ann Elizabeth Bagley Wolfe (1890-1980) were listed at the address in the 1921 city directory. Ann sold the house in 1961. Hugh served as a Navy medical officer during World War I. He was a prominent eye, ear, nose and throat specialist in Greensboro for more than 40 years. He was also an officer in the Junior Order, a prominent national fraternal organization with a strongly anti-Catholic, anti-immigration history.
  • Although the Wolfes owned the house for more than 40 years, by 1940 they had moved to the newer Starmount Forest neighborhood. They converted the house into apartments, identified in the city directory as the Wolfe Apartments. The house remained divided into apartments for more than 40 years.

912spring

912 Spring Garden Street, Greensboro
Listing withdrawn April 26, 2025; relisted May 25, 2025
Listing withdrawn March 15, 2026

• $320,000 (originally $385,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,386 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $134
• Built in 1905 (per county, but probably about 12 years later; see note)
• Listed November 1, 2024
• Last sales: $257,500, March 2021; $185,000, May 2014; $170,000, June 2010
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: Rental property. The house has been a rental for much of its history.
  • The seller is suggesting a zoning violation: “this property is currently leased by four tenants, with potential to increase cash flow by converting an existing space into a 5th bedroom.” Greensboro zoning doesn’t allow more than four unrelated persons to occupy a single-family residence, like this one. The house is one block from UNCG.
  • The house has been sold in 2010, 2014 and 2021.
  • No central air conditioning.
  • The early history of the house is complicated. City directories and property records show the original address was 910 Spring Garden. The property was bought by Annie Zilphia Wolfe Pearce (1870-1953) in 1915. 910 Spring Garden first appeared in the directory in 1917, with H.B. Pearce as the resident. His relationship to Annie is unknown. Annie and her husband, Oscar Fitzallen Pearce (1856-1948), lived across town on Percy Street in the Summit Avenue neighborhood. City directories listed other residents in 1920 and 1921.
  • Railroad engineer Willoughby Moulton Avery (1876-1934) bought the house in 1921 and continued to rent it out. Emma Cloud Sharpe Avery, his widow, sold the house in 1941.
  • From 1941 to 2010 the house was owned by Sam Bradshaw Foushee (1889-1973) and Verna Watson Foushee (1894-1989) and their descendants. Sam and Verna were the first owners to live in the house and possibly the last. Sam was a conductor on the Yadkin & Atlantic Railway.

424esprague

424 E. Sprague Street, Winston-Salem
Listing withdrawn March 11, 2026

• $425,000 (originally $450,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,628 square feet, 0.42 acre
• Price/square foot: $161
• Built in 1919
• Listed February 3, 2026
• Last sale: $423,000, October 2022
• Neighborhood: Sunnyside-Central Terrace Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Two-story gambrel-roof Dutch Colonial Revival with six-over-one paired, replacement windows; sidelights; porch with roof balustrade and fluted columns; shed-roof dormer, enclosed side porch; weatherboard; modillions.”
  • Zachary Taylor Bynum Jr. (1887-1969) and Katherine Doré Spach Bynum (1895-1984) were listed at the address in 1922, the first time it appeared in the city directory. Taylor was a co-owner of Southside Roller Mills and the Southside Wholesale Grocery Company. He also worked as chief clerk of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad in Winston-Salem. Katherine was a 1914 graduate of Salem College. She lived on East Sprague Street for the first 86 years of her life.

593cedar

539 Cedar Creek Road, Biscoe, Montgomery County
Listing withdrawn March 1, 2026

• $490,000 (originally $450,000)
• bedrooms, bathrooms, 1,878 square feet, 2.79 acres
• Price/square foot: $261
• Built in 1899
• Listed February 19, 2025
• Last sales: $95,000, May 2024; July 1937, no price recorded on deed
• Neighborhood: In the Uwharrie National Forest, about 2 1/2 miles southwest of Biscoe and 7 miles southeast of Troy.
• Note: Flipped house, caveat emptor. The renovation has stripped away the historic character of the house, inside and out.
  • The property includes a shop building with drive-through bays and office space. It’s considerably bigger than the house (2,908 square feet). Other outbuildings include a barn, garden shed and metal storage building.

210country

210 Country Club Drive, Greensboro
Listing withdrawn March 2026

• $1.25 million
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,287 square feet (per county), 0.28 acre
• Price/square foot: $380
• Built in 1927
• Listed February 4, 2026
• Last sales: $860,000, March 2022; $580,000, April 2012
• Neighborhood: Irving Park
• Note: The property includes a detached two-car garage with an office.
  • The initial asking price is 45 percent higher than the selling price in 2022. At $380/square foot, it’s pushing the top of the market, even for posh neighborhoods like Irving Park.
  • A Colonial Revival-style house with Cape Cod and regional Southern (the full-width front porch) features.
  • The address first appears in the city directory in 1928. It was a rental until 1937, owned by Southern Real Estate Company and then by attorney Julius C. Smith.
  • The first owner-occupants were Sidney E. Pruden (1898-1944) and his wife, Helen (later Helen Ferree Pruden Hall, 1900-1993). They bought the house in 1937. Sidney died of a heart attack in 1944; Helen sold the house in 1946 and later moved to Reidsville. Sidney was the proprietor of the Greensboro Small Loan Company and was serving as the clerk of the Greensboro War Price and Rationing Board when he died.

927apple

927 Apple Street SW, Winston-Salem
The Charles and Martha Hanes House
Listing withdrawn May 25, 2022; relisted July 27, 2023
Listing withdrawn September 21, 2023; relisted February 21, 2024
Sale pending April 26 to May 14, 2024
Listing withdrawn May 14, 2024; relisted September 3, 2025
Listing withdrawn February 24, 2026

• $310,000 (originally $229,500, later as low as $210,000 and as high as $345,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 2,130 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $146
• Built in 1885
• Listed April 7, 2022
• Last sale: $142,500, February 2021
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NRHP)
• Note: Vinyl siding, replacement windows
  • Now either apartments or a boarding house (listing isn’t clear).
  • The house was sold in 2000, 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2021. The current out-of-state owner listed it for sale again 14 months after buying it.
  • The house was next-door to the 1-acre-plus Apple Green City Farm (now a large empty lot) and is just around the corner from Carolina University (formerly Piedmont Bible Institute, 1946-2012, and Piedmont International University, 2012-20).
  • Homes on Apple Street first appear in the city directory in 1894, but without house numbers. Charles L. Hanes (1868-1900) was listed on Apple Street that year (no occupation listed). His widow, Martha Alice Binkley Hanes (1865-1948), was listed at 927 Apple in 1902, and she apparently lived there the rest of her life. Her obituary in 1948 showed her address as 927 Apple.
• District NRHP nomination: “I-house. Two story; side gable; single pile; rear ell; one-over-one replacement windows; vinyl siding; hip-roof porch; turned posts; sawn brackets.”

225 E. Monmouth Street, Winston-Salem
Listing withdrawn February 10, 2026

• $150,000 (originally $165,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,144 square feet, 0.11 acre
• Price/square foot: $131
• Built in 1927 (per county, but probably a year earlier; see note)
• Listed February 11, 2025
• Last sale: $123,000, March 2006
• Neighborhood: Sunnyside-Central Terrace Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Two-story hip-roof Foursquare with hip-roof dormer; vinyl siding; replacement one-over one windows; hip-roof porch with replacement posts and brackets.”
  • The address was first listed in the city directory in 1926 with Robert Ollie Denny (1892-1939) and Minnie Kiger Denny (1897-1987) as residents. Robert was a plant supervisor for N.C. Public Service Company. They were listed at another address in 1934.

418acadia

418 Acadia Avenue, Winston-Salem
The Charles and Emma Crews House
Listing withdrawn February 7, 2026

• $495,000 (originally $550,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,657 square feet, 0.37 acre
• Price/square foot: $186
• Built in 1900
• Listed September 11, 2025
• Last sale: $40,000, April 2019
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: In 2018, the house was donated to Preservation Forsyth, which sold it to the current owners. The house is protected by a preservation easement held by Preservation Forsyth.
• District NR nomination: “Large frame house with projecting semi-octagonal bay and modified turret roof; interior chimneys with corbelling and caps. One-story hipped-roof wrap porch supported by classical columns. 1/1 sash, metal shingle roofs. Asbestos siding [now replaced].
  • “City directories show Crews [Charles Anderson Crews, 1868-1952], a tile manufacturer and farmer, and wife Emma L. [Emma Louisa “Lula” Hall Crews, 1866-1941] here by 1921 … Crews was in the concrete pipe business, had a pipe plant on his land which extended to Freeman Street near W. Sprague, and made concrete pipes for storm sewers.
  • “Behind his house was a large barn which he built out of cement bricks, and big draft horses used to deliver the pipes when city was laying and paving streets.” The business went bankrupt during the Depression. By 1932 he was identified in the city directory as a farmer.
  • “His daughter Florence [Florence Summers Crews Miller, 1901-1998] and her husband Paul Miller lived in the house (they had also lived in #416). The barn burned in the 1940s or 1950s.” Paul Felix Miller (1898-1982) was in the sand and gravel business. One of their daughters donated the house to Preservation Forsyth in 2018.
  • “Interestingly, several architects lived in Washington Park. Hall Crews [Dennis Hall Crews, 1894-1966] grew up at 418 Acadia Avenue, studied architecture at Columbia University and joined a New York firm. He later worked for a while in [Willard] Northup’s firm, was licensed in 1923 and practiced from the house at 418 Acadia for many years.
  • “Crews designed Augsburg Lutheran Church in the West End neighborhood in 1926, and the Modern Chevrolet building in the International style in 1947. He is said to have designed Schlatter Memorial Church, a Gothic Revival style brick building completed at 236 Banner Avenue in 1920; however, this should be confirmed as Crews did not become a registered architect until 1923.”
  • Crews later moved his office to the Reynolds Building, the “Little Empire State Building.” His design for Ardmore Elementary School won an AIA North Carolina Award in 1931. He also designed homes in styles including Mid-Century Modern. Some of his work:

5530 Linch Road, Whisett, Guilford County
Listing withdrawn January 12, 2025; relisted July 15, 2025
Listing withdrawn February 2, 2026

• $2.5 million (originally $2.975 million)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3,538 square feet, 89.65 acres
• Price/square foot: $707
• Built in 1900
• Listed February 13, 2024
• Last sale: $350,000, February 2005
• Neighborhood: Although it has a Whitsett mailing address, it’s well to the southeast, about midway between Forest Oaks and Piedmont Dragway, “the DoorSlammer Capitol of the World.”
• Note: Previously listed without a sale at far lower prices in 2012 ($1.4 million) and 2013 ($1 million).
  • Oddly for such an expensive property with a large, well cared-for house, there are no interior pictures of the house.
  • The property was sold in 1958 by the estate of Emma Phipps Lynch (1879-1955). Emma and her husband, George Haywood Lynch (1879-1952) bought dozens of properties and hundreds of acres of land in eastern Guilford County beginning in 1922. Only Emma’s name was on the vast majority of deeds. It’s unknown whether they lived on the property (digital records show their address as Route 1, Whitsett) and when they bought it.
  • Emma was a school teacher. George was a farmer. They were members of the Asheboro Street Friends Meeting.

315 N. Spruce Street, Apartment 307, Winston-Salem
Listing withdrawn February 1, 2026

• $229,000 (originally $249,000)
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 939 square feet
• Price/square foot: $244
• Built in 1924
• Listed June 30, 2025
• Last sale: $137,500, July 2019
• HOA: $317/month