Updated February 26, 2020
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A note to Realtors and prospective home buyers about buying properties in historic districts
Single-Family Homes

912 Spring Garden Street, Greensboro
The Wrenn-Foushee House
contract pending February 24, 2021
- $265,000 (originally $288,000)
- 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,386 square feet
- Price/square foot: $111
- Built in 1905
- Listed September 24, 2020
- Last sale: $185,000, May 2014
- Note: Rental property
- According to the historic district’s NRHP nomination, the first owner was Owen Wrenn, a civil engineer.
- The house was owned by Sam and Verna Foushee and their descendants from 1941 to 2010. Sam was a conductor on the Yadkin & Atlantic Railway.
Multi-Unit Homes

704 Spring Garden Street
listing withdrawn December 14, 2020 (previously for sale in a package with two other properties)
relisted December 15, 2020
- $325,000
- 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,745 square feet (single-family home divided into three apartments)
- Price/square foot: $118
- Built in 1900
- Listed June 5, 2020
- Last sale: $150,000, July 2001
- Note: Originally a single-family home, the house was divided into three apartments decades ago.