Elegant Executive 1927 Home - Exquisitely Renovated - FOR SALE

11/15/2024: Editor's Update! New Price:  $574,000

After two and a half years of renovating - the restoration is finally completed! 

Welcome to 300 West Thomas Street in the prestigious West Square Historic District of Salisbury, North Carolina.  

This stately all-brick American Foursquare had suffered 40 years of neglect and was slated for demolition. Not only saved from the wrecking ball, the current owner preserved, stabilized, restored, and renovated this vintage gem in one of Salisbury's more prestigious neighborhoods: The Historic West Square.  The results are outstanding!  Let Greg Rapp with Salisbury Real Estate LLC show you luxury modern living with history and class in this spotless timeless home!

Step inside 300 W. Thomas Street to discover a labor of love, where every room whispers tales of carefully curated renovations. Constructed in 1927, this 3,364-square-foot home wears its history with grace while bringing its new owners all the modern conveniences. 

The House

This elegant circa 1927 home has been thoroughly renovated with careful attention to detail and sensitive updates that offer modern conveniences while respecting the historic nature of this grand home. Stepping through the front door with its beveled glass windows, the cozy entry opens to a surprisingly large great room with plenty of room for seating areas and that 8-ft sofa you love and all of the accompaniments, ensuring you can live and entertain with elegance. Here, the home's original fireplace (non-functioning) boasts its original Arts & Crafts style brick surround and mantel. Window arrays, with a unique 9-over-one pane pattern original to the house, flood the great room with natural light.  Through beautiful French doors, you will find more of these wonderful light-filled windows in the spacious formal dining room. 

You will immediately note the luxurious, luminous light floors! These are the home's original oak floors, and while many homes of this era feature darkly stained wood flooring - here, this uplifting neutral aesthetic was achieved by a bleaching process, sealed with a satin polyurethane to a soft glow. The effect is so calming and uplifting!

Wait until you see the incredible top-to-bottom newly installed kitchen! This custom kitchen sparkles with a white tile backsplash, a plethora of new custom cabinetry,  unique quartz countertops, and elegantly appointed with a dual-fuel stove, wine fridge, and separate beverage fridge, and beautiful farmhouse sink. Above the sink, as pair of handsome leaded, beveled antique glass windows have been added to the lower sashes of each window.  The tile backsplash above the stove features our favorite thing EVER . . a built-in pot filler! YES! A pretty bleached pine floor continues here, but laid on the diagonal to set it apart from the living/dining rooms.

But wait, there is more!

When the original rear abutment was removed, it was replaced with a much larger addition that offered the space for the first-floor half-bath, beyond which you will find the main-floor owners' suite in the newly constructed rear 3-story wing, overlooking the backyard. The suite includes a new laundry room, a huge walk-in closet, and a gorgeous new designer bath, elegantly appointed with Carrera marble flooring, marble wall tiles, and marble vanity. WOW!

Upstairs, you'll find three (3) more beautiful bedrooms. The rear bedroom includes a wonderful sleeping porch that overlooks the backyard and could be utilized as a dressing room, playroom, sunroom, or office. The full bath here features the original classic 1920’s black and white tile - in perfect condition despite 40 years of neglect. A good power wash brought it back to its original beauty.  The new, black, 30” marble-topped vanity perfectly complements the white tile and the original DEEP white bathtub. 

So. . . you might think that now you have seen the entire house.  But another surprise awaits!  Downstairs, an astounding new basement-level expanded living area turns this house from ordinary to extraordinary! Over 970 square feet with three freshly fully-finished basement rooms expand your heated/cooled living!  

A cozy media room at the bottom of the stairs steps up through a geometrically arched doorway to an intermediate bonus room . . . storage? more living area? . . . you decide!

  

This room opens to a HUGE walk-out recreation room where windows on three sides stream with natural daylight. 

Each of the lower-level rooms offers glistening epoxy floors. An additional unfinished room houses the home's mechanicals. This fully rebuilt and expanded rear 3-story addition features a metal roof and is supported by an array of new helical piers.  

History

300 W. Thomas Street is the first of a row of five almost identical houses built in 1927 by Walter F. McCanless, a son of prominent Salisbury businessman Napoleon Bonaparte McCanless, who purchased the land along the north side of W. Thomas Street and built these dwellings as investment houses. This house was sold to prosperous lumber dealer E.A. Goodman in 1934. Goodman used it as a rental house before selling it to Victor H. Yost in 1937. Yost, assistant manager and later vice-president of the Belk-Harry Store, occupied the house until his death and his widow occupied it for many years after his passing. The home is listed in the National Register of Historic Places under the Salisbury Historic District Extension. 

In recent years, the home had fallen into disrepair...most remarkably, the original 3-story rear abutment was in imminent danger of falling off the house. This abutment was removed, and a new and expanded addition was built that provides the space for the amazing basement rooms, the 1st-floor owners' suite, and the pretty 2nd-floor sunroom. 

Details

This brick home features the typical rectangular shape and hipped roof of the American Foursquare style with a central dormer so popular in this part of the district. The main roof is covered in its original terra cotta ceramic tile. The front porch with its metal roof, supported by impressive wooden piers, stretches across the facade to form a porte cochère over the circular drive. The newly erected addition at the rear, supported below grade with new 40' helical piers, sports a metal roof.  The home has undergone an entirely new whole-house rewire, new plumbing, and new HVAC systems. The terra cotta tile roof on the main portion of the home is original.

Location

This lovely historic home has been fully renovated, blending restored original details with amazing updates. But should you choose to make exterior changes, this property is supported by the City of Salisbury's Historic Preservation Grants, an annual grant program that provides fiscal assistance to preserving and maintaining homes and structures within the locally designated historic districts. The city's Historic Preservation Commission oversees major exterior changes through a COA (Certificate of Appropriateness) application program.

A timeless tale of love is felt throughout this graceful historic American Foursquare with remarkable detailing. 300 W. Thomas Street is a fully updated executive-level home in a prime location, just blocks from the city of Salisbury's vibrant downtown with restaurants, unique shopping, a microbrewery, community theatre, and a $3M publicly funded central park. The West Square Historic District is known for its walkability, its tree-lined sidewalks, and its inventory of beautiful historic homes dating from the 1820s through the 1930s. Salisbury is within an hour's drive of the larger metro areas of Charlotte, Winston-Salem, and Greensboro, but without the traffic and high costs!

Your New Home

This exquisitely renovated circa 1927 home is a must-see! Call Greg Rapp with Salisbury Real Estate LLC to picture yourself in your new home at 300 W. Thomas Street in Salisbury, North Carolina. Your personal tour with the area's premier real estate agent specializing in historic properties is waiting: 704.213.6846.

300 W Thomas Street

Salisbury, North Carolina 28144 

MLS#4178179 

$615,000

$574,000

Greg Rapp 
Salisbury Real Estate LLC 
704 213 6846 Mobile 
GregRappRealtor@gmail.com 
www.realestatesalisbury.net 

CALL TO ACTION | Contact our State Representatives for the Empire Hotel

The Empire Hotel in downtown Salisbury, North Carolina is an iconic structure in the center of the city with a legacy stemming from the year 1855.

In 1855, Attorney Nathanial Boyden began construction on the 3-story building that would become the Boyden House. Construction lasted until December 1855 and the hotel formally opened in May 17, 1859. Over the years the building transferred owners to become the Davis House, the Central Hotel and lastly the Empire Hotel. The Empire Hotel closed for good in 1963, leaving its rooms empty for almost 40 years.



Salisbury, NC, with a population 33,524, is a central location on the I-85 Corridor between such populous cities as Charlotte, Greensboro, and Winston-Salem. These cities boast a population of approximately 3.2 million total. Founded in 1753, Salisbury’s downtown is nationally recognized as a model for preservation and downtown development, benefiting from $130 million in investment, $60 million of which has been in the last 10 years.

In 2017, Black Point Investments, LLC signed a purchase and sale agreement with plans to develop the property into market-rate apartments. Initial plans also provide for the development of retail storefronts along South Main St., including the retail space in the large former Montgomery Ward main floor, mezzanine and basement. Combined, the project will allow for approximately 29,000 square feet of retail space.

There have been many attempts at rehabilitating the hotel over the years. The Empire Hotel has a rich legacy, and its current efforts for rehabilitation require your help.

Gov. Roy Cooper’s proposed state budget included the Empire Hotel restoration as one of 68 local projects statewide that would receive grant money. The governor’s proposed grant would invest $26.4 million to 68 projects to spur economic development in rural areas. Communities would provide at least $1 for every $4 of state funds invested in the project.

The grant would mean $1 million for the Empire Hotel project if approved. However, the same Empire Hotel funding is not included in the state House’s budget. And Sen. Carl Ford, R-33, said it is unlikely the project will be added to the Senate budget. Ford is expecting the Senate budget to be unveiled later this month.

Please consider emailing or calling our local representatives in support of these redevelopment efforts. While Gov. Roy Cooper has outlined financial support of the rehabilitation project of the Empire Hotel, local representation is likely not going to support the project.

The restoration of the Empire Hotel means that history will live on, and a pivotal structure in the center of Salisbury's downtown again contributes to the town center's vitality. Support of the restoration project means increased food options, more retail, a more business friendly and professional downtown for Salisbury.

Contacts for our NC representatives can be found here: https://www.ncleg.gov/Members/CountyRepresentation/Rowan

To call Rep. Ford or Warren:

FORD - (919) 733-5665

WARREN - (919) 733-5784

Thank you in advance for your consideration in contacting our elected officials to support Main Street USA.

Greg Rapp Realtor®
Wallace Realty Co. 
301 S. Main Street 
Salisbury NC 28144 
704.213.6846 
GregRappRealtor@gmail.com
www.RealEstateSalisbury.net

Circa 1923 McCubbins House - A Restoration Project - SOLD by Realtor Greg Rapp

Do you drive around wishing you could fix up every fixer-upper you see, restore every bygone-looking home, and salvage every old door, mantel and garden?  Realtor Greg Rapp feels your pain!

Welcome to 1013 N. Main Street, Salisbury, North Carolina. This huge, 2000+ square foot historic home had seen better days, but it had never seen a better price. This fire-damaged, restoration-ready, 2-story weatherboard Four-Square needs more than a coat of paint to bring it back to grandeur.

This 1923 home was built by the McCubbins family and was part of the early 1900s "Steelworth" neighborhood that had been carved out of the plantation property known as 'Lombardy' owned by John Steele. While the Four-Square style house was influenced by the area’s bungalows, it is predominantly Colonial Revival in style and appearance, and is just waiting to be brought back to its former glory.

When this previously beautiful and stately home sadly sustained a fire in 2016, the owner donated the home to the Historic Salisbury Foundation whose teams of restoration craftsmen have been diligently working to stabilize it.

The structure was gutted, teams rebuilt the front veranda, and added a new porch roof. All of the wood windows have been restored.

Fortunately, this well-built home is structurally sound and is ready to rock a full restoration.

This home, in its present condition, is a blank slate, and ready for upfits. Luckily, Realtor Greg Rapp, specialist in historic homes and historic preservation, found a buyer with the vision and sweat equity to grasp this fantastic opportunity to renovate one of the most imposing homes in Salisbury's North Main Historic District!

It will be exciting to see this prestigious home being returned to its former splendor!

Do you have a vintage home that you are considering selling?  Greg Rapp is your agent! If he can sell a home like this... that needs EVERYTHING...think what he can do with yours!  Call 704.213.6846 to make it happen!

1013 N. Main Street
Salisbury, NC 28144
SOLD / Greg Rapp Realtor
Wallace Realty Co.








Greg Rapp 
Wallace Realty Co. 
704 213 6846 Mobile 
704 636 2021 Office 
www.realestatesalisbury.net 



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History Salisbury Foundation Preservation Awards

Tonight is the Historic Salisbury Foundation 32nd Annual Preservation Awards Reception at the historic Salisbury Depot!  

Each year, the Foundation accepts nominations in recognizing and saluting preservation leaders in our community.

Tonight, thirteen individuals and eight properties will be recognized:

• Leslie Black - Volunteer of the Year
• John Brindle - Digitizing Images and Land Records Dating Back to 1753
• Elysia Demers - Advocacy and Activism in Chestnut Hill Neighborhood
• Phil & Dodie King - Advocacy and Activism Efforts in Kesler Mill and Park Avenue Neighborhood
• C.J. Peters - Rehabilitation of Porch and Windows on Ovelle White-Burton House
• Tommy Stoner - Rehabilitation of 301 4th Street and Encouraging Neighborhood Revitilization
• Mark Wineka - Celebration of Historic Restorations and Structures in "The Salisbury Magazine"
• Al Wilson - Renovation of St. Luke's Episcopal Church building
• Chad Morgan - Interior Faux Finishes and Cornice Designs in Fulton-Mock-Blackmer House
• Barbara Perry - Community Appearance Efforts
• Lynn Raker - Advocacy for the City of Salisbury
• Carol Rathburn - Transcription of "Mary Cowan Hall Cookbook"

• Bernhardt Hardware Buildings
• Bostian Retirement Planning
• New Sarum Brewing Company
• Salisbury Fire Station #5
• Sedberry's Framing & Art Gallery
• The W. Goodson House (Jeff & Kelly Cannon)
• The Ovelle White-Burton House (Priscilla Clark)
• St. Luke's Episcopal Church

Greg Rapp, of Wallace Realty Company in historic downtown Salisbury North Carolina, has a passion for history and preservation, and was himself recognized with a Preservation Professional of the Year Award at a past Historic Salisbury Foundation awards night. 

More to the point, Greg Rapp's fingerprint is on many of these awards that come through the HSF recognition program:

In June of 2015, Greg Rapp brought Priscilla Clark from Alberta, Canada to Salisbury to purchase the circa 1915 Ovelle White-Burton bungalow in the Fulton Heights neighborhood in Salisbury. 

Priscilla wanted to live somewhere where historic preservation was important. Priscilla found Realtor® Greg Rapp through his website at www.RealEstateSalisbury.net, and has been recognized repeatedly for the work she has done in renovating the historic home.

Greg's concepts for the Bernhardt Hardware Buildings in the heart of downtown Salisbury were the catalyst in the building's purchase and renovation by Calm Holdings and Central Piedmont Builders.  Greg presented his concept for second story residential spaces with first floor retail to Bryan Wymbs and Chad Vriesema . . . and the rest is history.  

Calm Holdings purchased the circa 1882 building and has accomplished one of the most exciting historic reuse projects in the Salisbury.  Before construction was even completed, Greg Rapp had most of the residential units leased and the retail spaces filled!

Elysia and Tim Demers worked with Greg Rapp to purchase their circa 1900 Victorian home in the cusp neighborhood of Chestnut Hill...and the face of the neighborhood will never be the same! 

Historic Salisbury Foundation executed its option to buy the circa 1900 Victorian home at 820 South Jackson St. ~ and with the services of Greg Rapp, sold it with protective covenants to Elysia and Tim. The couple often expresses how invaluable Greg Rapp was in helping them work through the special processes a purchase of this sort involves.  Since moving into their historic home, Elysia has been a calalyst in neighborhood improvement, bringing the City of Salisbury's award winning BlockWork program to the community, and even installing a neighborhood park!

Elysia & Tim had this to say about working with Greg Rapp of Wallace Realty:

"All the multiple houses, calls, and emails.  We thank you so much for sticking with us all this time" and "Many thanks, Celebrity Greg!"  When the duo was looking for a real estate agent in the area . . .  and nearly everyone told the couple they should sign with Greg Rapp, they donned him a celebrity!

Since 1983, Historic Salisbury Foundation has celebrated local historic preservation successes by presenting Preservation Awards to individuals, companies, and projects demonstrating various areas of excellence in preservation. This event is typically held in May, which is National Preservation Month. Nominations are accepted from the public throughout the year and reviewed by a committee of preservation leaders in Rowan County. Projects completed within the past three years in Rowan County are eligible to receive an award. HSF's Preservation Awards are made from bricks salvaged from the 1896 Grimes Mill, a roller mill which was lost to fire in January 2013.

The Salisbury-Rowan community embraces historic preservation and is proud of the Preservation Award Winners each year!  And behind the scenes, real estate agent Greg Rapp will continue to make his mark bringing preservation minded buyers and old-house enthusiasts to the area!  

You can reach Greg at (704) 213-6846 . . . maybe your name will be on the 2017 list of Preservation Award Winners!

Greg Rapp 
Wallace Realty Co. 
704 213 6846 Mobile 
704 636 2021 Office 
www.realestatesalisbury.net 

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas ~ Thanks to You!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas ~ thanks to you and the Historic Salisbury Foundation!

Historic Salisbury Foundation (HSF) has never been afraid of a challenge when it comes to neighborhood revitalization.  HSF is increasing its commitment to support the North Main Street Neighborhood, focusing on several key properties in an effort to strengthen this gateway into Historic Salisbury, North Carolina.  The organization recently acquired two vacant and distressed houses in the North Main Neighborhood (NOMA) in the midst of the Historic District. And the work has steam-rolled into action!

Things are starting to look different at 1428 North Main Street. The windows have been rehabbed and missing or rotten siding is being replaced. The interior of 1428 N. Main has been cleaned! Window repair has started. Work has begun on repairing flashing at the chimneys.

This expansive two-story dwelling was probably constructed about 1900. Little information about the home known as the Myers-Morris House is available from city directories or other sources, but it was occupied by 1923 by D. R. Meyers, a rural postman. By 1928 it was occupied by Z. W. Morris, a Southern Railway clerk, as well as by Vincent Brown and E. T. Meyers, also Southern employees. Morris continued to occupy it, perhaps as owner, into the 1940s. Its hipped roof and projecting front and side gables are characteristically Victorian, as is its asymmetrical composition and the rear porch, which features handsome turned posts and bold sawn brackets. The front porch supported by tall, slender columns, may have replaced an original wrap around porch featuring turned posts and sawn brackets similar to the rear porch. 

HSF also just acquired the house one block away, at 1600 North Main ~ The ca.1912 Hunter-Mowery House. L.F. Hunter constructed this handsome working class cottage about 1912. Hunter, a Southern Railway machinist occupied the home until 1925 when he sold it to J.L. Mowery, a railway blacksmith. It is the best preserved working class Victorian cottage in the district with its high hipped roof with projecting front gable, accentuated with a colonial lunette, and its asymmetrical stuccoed facade with recessed side entrance. Although not as elaborate or eclectic as its larger contemporaries in the southern part of the district, it does possess a handsome porch with turned posts and an interesting sawn dentil-like gallery.

The North Main district's late Victorian character was interpreted in a more modest tradition in the small working class cottages closer to Spencer. These smaller dwellings feature the steeply pitched hipped roofs and projecting gables of their larger and more elaborate contemporaries, but lack the rich exterior ornamentation of those structures. Typical of this modest late Victorian motif are the adjacent dwellings located at 1600 and 1604 N. Main Street. These similar dwellings have steeply sloped hipped roofs with projecting gables and dormers, as well as asymmetrical facades featuring recessed entryways on one side; found on several of the district's houses. They are both defined by wrap-around porches with turned posts, yet only 1600 N. Main Street, where a gable lunette alludes to a Colonial Revival influence, possesses an interesting sawn gallery typical of the exuberant ornamentation on the more elaborate Victorian dwellings to the south. 

The North Main Neighborhood of Salisbury, North Carolina lies between Lafayette Street and 17th Street, and between N. Railroad Street and N. Jackson Street.  In the center of the neighborhood lies the North Main Historic District. The district built up during the heyday of the trolley system in Salisbury in the early 1900s. The trolley tracks traversed the center of Main Street to the Spencer Shops. Rumor has it that the tracks are still there under the pavement.

Both 1428 N. Main and 1600 N. Main Street are homes that the Historic Salisbury Foundation is working to stabilize for future restoration! These homes will be on the market for sale and further restoration soon!  And who do you call? . . .

Realtor® Greg Rapp is known for being a part of the preservation movement in Salisbury, North Carolina, and one of the premiere agents for historic home sales.  Greg has properties listed in the North Main Neighborhood worth seeing.  And Greg believes in the process of revitalization, understanding that there is definitely strength in numbers!  

Please consider supporting HSF's revolving fund and the impact it has on neighborhood revitalization. A donation is quick and will be used to stabilize 1428 & 1600 North Main and other historic houses for years to come. 
CLICK: http://www.gofundme.com/heq7tg 

Make an investment in this community's history and watch the progress with us.


 
HSF and NOMA are planning a volunteer work day for these revolving fund properties on Saturday, January 24th, so if you'd like to pitch in and help, mark your calendars now. And if you are interested in selling or buying a historic home in Salisbury/Rowan County, North Carolina ~ Greg Rapp is the one to call!  704.213.6846

 

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Greg Rapp 
Wallace Realty Co. 
704 213 6846 Mobile 
704 636 2021 Office 
www.realestatesalisbury.net