Preservation North Carolina

10/10/2026

FOR SALE! The W. I. Monday House. a c. 1920 Craftsman bungalow in Mount Airy’s National Register-listed Lebanon Hill Historic District, less than a mile walk from downtown.

This beautifully restored home offers 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and 9 total rooms in approximately 2,251 heated square feet on a half-acre lot. The main level features a formal dining room, den, living room, and kitchen, with two gas stoves framed by classic wood mantels in the den and living room. Classic bungalow features include original hardwood floors and generous room proportions. This charmer sits in a neighborhood less than a mile’s walk to downtown Mount Airy, home of the new Balladeer Hotel, an upcoming steakhouse, conference center, and event venue. Priced below its certified appraised value of $383,000. This is an excellent opportunity for a preservation-minded buyer or investor in a walkable historic district with significant nearby development.

📍1023 N. Main Street, Mount Airy, NC
🗝 $349,000
🏠 2,251 square feet
🌳 .52 acres
📩 Chris Wilson LRB Real Estate | [email protected] | 336-287-3330
or
Donald Carrol LRB Real Estate | [email protected] | 336- 287-8122

10/09/2026

Update from President and CEO Benjamin Briggs on the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026

Update from President Benjamin Briggs on the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 as it relates to Section 106 Review.

10/08/2026

For our October 250 Across NC Series, we explore our state's vernacular architecture. Vernacular architecture is the architecture style informed by a building’s native land and culture. For North Carolina, that looks like to***co barns, textile mills, and mid-century suburbs. These buildings and places provide insights into our state’s cultural, racial, and economic landscape.

Eastern North Carolina’s earliest architecture was most influenced by Virginia settlers like those of the Chesapeake and Tidewater region. These settlers participated in the slave economy by cultivating plantations that sold naval stores and cash crops through seaports to larger markets in major colonial cities and the Caribbean. Architectural traditions reflected early English-inspired house forms and styles such as Georgian and Federal styles and relied on timber frame traditions coupled with use of locally sourced brick. Swipe to see some examples all of which are Preservation North Carolina Protected Properties.

10/08/2026

Vernacular architecture is the architecture style informed by a building’s native land and culture. For NC, that looks like to***co barns, textile mills, and mid-century suburbs. These buildings and places provide insights into our state’s cultural, racial, and economic landscape. Our early architecture reveals a rich history of technical building traditions in addition to a variety of local materials, regional climatic influences, and cultural practices that provide us with ways to examine and learn about those who came before us.

10/07/2026

FOR SALE: A c. 1920 Craftsman bungalow in Mount Airy’s National Register-listed Lebanon Hill Historic District, less than a mile walk from downtown.

A 1920 Craftsman bungalow in Mount Airy's National Register-listed Lebanon Hill Historic District, less than a mile's walk from downtown!

10/05/2026

Price reduced! An amazing historic property that has been lovingly and meticulously restored, the Burt-Woodruff-Cooper House maintains the character of its age.

An amazing property that has been lovingly and meticulously restored, the Burt-Woodruff-Cooper House maintains the character of its age.

10/05/2026

✨PNC Honor Awards Spotlight ✨

Get to know this year's DeWayne H. Anderson Sr. Award for Housing Award: The Lofts at Osage Mill in Bessemer City, a massive historic adaptive reuse project that transformed a dilapidated 1895 textile mill into 139 affordable residential housing units.

Spearheaded by WinnDevelopment, a company with more than 50 years of experience with large-scale adaptive reuse projects across the U.S., the project team included noted North Carolina preservation leaders Tise-Kiester Architects and Rehab Builders. The $50 million project has made a significant three-fold impact in Gaston County: a historic community landmark was preserved; that landmark now provides affordable housing options for the community; and it sparked a renewed energy in Bessemer City’s downtown. Swipe for before shots!

The DeWayne H. Anderson Sr. Award for Housing is the highest honor given by Preservation North Carolina for the creation or preservation of housing in historic buildings. This award recognizes the innovative use of historic buildings to create new or updated housing, including affordable or downtown housing solutions. First presented in 2023, the award is made possible by the family of the late DeWayne H. Anderson, Sr., of Winston-Salem, whose career and leadership resulted in thousands of units of new housing in historic schools, mills, and hospitals across the South.

A big congrats to the teams involved in this project and we look forward to presenting this award in person at our annual conference in High Point in just a few weeks!

10/02/2026

Charming Gordon-Brandon back in the day. Located in the small town of Milton near Country Line Creek on a secluded wooded lot through masonry gates, it's still on the market awaiting its next steward.

Gordon-Brandon is a unique-to-Milton house type of the antebellum period which is a modest raised cottage consisting of a brick story with an upper frame story containing the main entrance. Only 4 examples of this style of home are left, including this one. These homes were built for local merchants from the 1840s to 1860s when Milton was a commercial boomtown with thriving factories and warehouses, taverns, hotels, a state bank, and, of course, the woodworking shop of master craftsman Thomas Day.

Gordon-Brandon is a spacious two-story home with nearly 2,000 square feet of original character waiting to be revitalized. The front façade is dominated by a two-story, three-bay-wide porch supported by four large beaded posts on the lower level, and more delicate chamfered posts on the upper level dressed with molded caps, decorative brackets, and turned balustrade. Gorgeous large upper-level windows consisting of 8-over-12 sash with wide architraves and delicate molding catch the eye. While some rehabilitation has been started on the Gordon-Brandon House, its next owner will need to take it all the way to completion. The property is located in the Milton National Register Historic District and is eligible for rehabilitation tax credits. See stories or visit presnc.org to learn more

10/01/2026

As Preservation North Carolina works to find the next steward for the Gordon-Brandon House in the town of Milton, we’re revisiting some of our other protected historic properties in this special part of the state.

Visit Milton NC
Visit Caswell County, North Carolina
Thomas Day State Historic Site
Town Of Milton NC

Anchor photo by Jim Lamb with Capital City Camera Club-Raleigh

Rrevisiting some of Preservation North Carolina's Protected Properties in the speical historic town of Milton