The Lydia and James Cartland House is one of the earliest in Lindley Park. Built in 1905 across the street from its present location, the house crossed the street sometime in its first 20 years. Today, it’s nicely restored and a beautiful example of its time period and its neighborhood.
The Cartland House has four bedrooms and two baths. It’s unusually large for Lindley Park, 3,142 square feet. The price, too, is outsized for the neighborhood at $369,900; by my count, only five pre-WWII Lindley Park houses have sold in the $300,000’s in the past two and a half years, out of 43 total. But the price works out to a modest $117 per square foot, way at the low end of the range for the neighborhood. The lot also is larger than average, 0.36 acre.
“The two-story frame house is typical of Greensboro residences of the first decade of the twentieth century,” Benjamin Briggs of Preservation Greensboro writes. “Simply detailed, the Late Victorian form is characterized by a hipped roofline and a projecting hipped wing. This wing, with exterior access, might have served as an office. Decorative features are staid, including a deep cornice with boxed eaves, nine over nine windows, and a half-width front porch. Interior details curiously hint at an early construction date, such as capped door and window trim, a square stair newel post, and six-panel doors.”
Scott Avenue is a quiet side street, but the house is just a couple blocks from the Walker and Elam intersection, home of Bestway grocery and various restaurants, bars and other contributors to Greensboro’s quality of life.
Greensboro Historic Homes For Sale 