The West End Association is excited to host the Holiday Homes Tour on Sunday, December 8th, 2024. The tour will present five West End historic residences and three historic homes now occupied by businesses.
The WEA Holiday Homes Tour, which began in 1976, is a community-developed event that provides access inside historical homes and buildings through the West End neighborhood. Taking place every other year in December, the Holiday Homes Tour also exposes attendees to seasonal decor throughout the neighborhood.
This event provides the public with the unique opportunity to visit beautifully preserved buildings that maintain architectural styles original to Winston-Salem and date as far back as the 1880s. The WEA is proud to run this event which is known for attracting attendees from across the state of North Carolina.
The Holiday Homes Tour provides financial support to the WEA (via ticket sales and sponsorship opportunities) that are integral to the association’s operations in maintaining the health and well-being of the neighborhood. As a non-profit neighborhood association, public attendance goes a long way in helping the WEA to support the West End and its businesses.
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2024 Tour Stops
Tour Stop #1
Dr. Arthur DeTalma Valk House,
652 Summit St., ca. 1920
The Valk House is an unusual, two-story stuccoed dwelling designed by Richmond architect Charles H. Robinson and constructed by Fogle Brothers. It has clipped gables, gable end chimneys flanked by lunette windows, and a southeast side shed room balanced by a northwest side sunroom(originally an open porch) with Tuscan columns. The front entrance is sheltered by a Classical porch with Tuscan columns and a pedimented entablature. The rear of the house, which faces Jersey Avenue, has a sleeping porch and a ground level arcade. In the 1940s, the main level bedroom and bathroom were added.
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Tour Stop #2
Adams-Hines House ,
631 Summit St., ca. 1911
The Adams-Hines House is a simple, two-story frame, Colonial Revival dwelling. Colonial Revival homes use structural elements from Georgian and Federal architecture as well as Dutch Colonial and post-medieval English styles. Several of these elements are seen in the Adams-Hines house: the pedimented gable, hipped roof, double hung windows with shutters, and plain balustrade. The house is nearly identical to 623 Summit Street, a “twin home” with which it shares a driveway.
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Tour Stop # 3
William G. Tennille House
619 Summit St.
1923
This two-story, weatherboarded frame, Colonial Revival house is one of several in the West End to use the gambrel roof form. In addition, it has a shed dormer across the facade, a pent eave between stories, and a front entrance with a fanlight transom and a gabled hood instead of a porch. The Sanborn Maps suggest that there was originally an engaged porch on the northwest corner of the house, but this has been sensitively enclosed. The house was first owned, and occupied for more than fifteen years, by William G. and Hallie Tennille. Prior to WWII he was manager of the Robert E. Lee Hotel, a 10-story hotel in downtown Winston that operated from 1912-1971.
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Tour Stop #4
Jacob Lott Ludlow House
434 Summit St.
1887
This historic West End home is back by popular demand for the 2024 Tour. Renovations had not yet been completed when the house was presented in 2022. Listed individually on the National Register, the Ludlow House is one of the best-preserved examples of late nineteenth century, Queen Anne style-influenced domestic architecture in Winston-Salem.
The two-story weatherboarded frame house features irregular massing, a decorative wrap-around porch and center bay balcony, stained glass windows, and a well-preserved interior with a variety of handsome late Victorian details. Original stained glass is a prominent feature of the house. Nearly all of the upper sashes are bordered by square and rectangular panes of multi-colored glass, while the lower sashes of the stairway windows are completely infilled with small squares of brightly colored glass.
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Tour Stop #5
Rosenbacher House
848 W. Fifth St.
1909
Standing atop a terraced lawn overlooking Fifth Street, the Rosenbacher House is one of the grandest of the Neo-Classical Revival dwellings in Winston-Salem. The large weatherboarded house is dominated by a monumental two-story central portico with Corinthian columns and a full pedimented entablature. Enhancing the Classical design of the facade are one-story curved porches with Ionic columns, turned balustrades, and modillioned cornices.
At second story height, a cornice with modillions encircles the house beneath the truncated hip roof. The central entrance boasts double-leaf doors, leaded and beveled glass sidelights and a fanlight transom.
The interior of the house is as exceptional as the exterior. The large front hall is separated from the rear stair hall by a grandiose Ionic arcade. Segmental-arched sliding pocket doors serve as openings between the major rooms. One of the most impressive rooms in the house is the dining room, characterized by a handsome Colonial Revival paneled mantel and overmantel. It has a high paneled wainscot topped by a plate rail, a boxed beam ceiling, and what appear to be original wallpaper borders.
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Tour Stop #6
P. Huber Hanes House
1200 Glade St.
ca. 1915
Erected ca. 1915, the house was originally the residence of P. Huber and Evelyn Hanes from 1916 until they moved to a new home on Georgia Avenue in 1930. The large two-story stuccoed house is an adaptation of the Tudor Revival style and is characterized by a steep truncated hip roof with front and side bracketed gables, grouped nine-over-one sash windows, a string course between floors, tall exterior chimneys, and a one-story porte-cochere at the front entrance.
Exterior changes include the enclosure of the northeast side porch and the addition on the southwest side of a one-story gable-fronted chapel. These changes occurred when the house was converted to a funeral home in the 1950s. The generously proportioned interior features a center hall plan with consistently designed Colonial Revival details, including a stair with a spiral newel, paneled doors, molded chair rails, a paneled wainscot in the large parlor, dedicated mantels, and arched corner niches.
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Tour Stop #7
Apartment Building (FY 1729)
600-602 West End Blvd. and 1420 Brookstown Ave
ca. late 1920s
This simple Colonial Revival apartment building was probably built in the late 1920s. It is a two-story brick veneer building with a low hip roof, six-over-one sash windows, and front and side entrance porches with slender Tuscan posts, a full entablature, and a balustraded deck. A three-car garage on the south side of the building is an original structure.
Open for the Holiday Home Tour are two of the apartments which are furnished and available for short term rental. The bold color choices of each apartment are inspired by a 1930’s dinnerware line designed by Russel Wright called American Modern. You will visit the coral and the teal unit, and if you look, you will notice the vintage pottery in each unit. The “owners’ unit” has 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, and a fireplace. The owners will be moving into this unit soon and are excited to be part of the neighborhood again. The other three apartments are 1 bedroom, 1 bath with spacious living, dining and kitchens areas. Each apartment is uniquely laid out and each one feels like a perfect little home in itself. Each of the apartments has the original hardwood flooring, doors, windows, and hardware.
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Tour Stop #8
Parrish-McDermott House
1412 Brookstown Ave.
1916
The Parrish-McDermott House is a one-and-a-half-story weatherboarded frame bungalow with a narrow but deep configuration. It has a broad gable roof with deep cornice returns, an engaged front porch with Craftsman-detailed square posts and a Craftsman door, and a rear sleeping porch. Unusual features include the chimney with exposed face on the front porch and the wood shingled front wall dormer with a shingled parapet roof. Fred M. and Inez H. Parrish purchased the property in 1916 and built their house immediately thereafter. The Parrishes sold the house in 1928. In 1944, Margaret McDermott, a teacher at nearby R. J. Reynolds High School, bought the house.
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Special Tour Opportunity – Art & Architecture Tour at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH is providing an Art & Architecture Tour during the West End Holiday Homes Tour on December 8, 2024, starting at 2:00 pm. Tour guests interested in a docent-led tour may come to the church doors on 520 Summit Street until 3:30 pm. The tour includes the main church, the chapel, and the beautiful and inspiring Roger Nelson fresco. St. Paul’s was built in the Neo-Gothic style in 1928 on the highest point in Winston-Salem as a house of prayer for all people. It has been one of the most frequent tour sites open during the history of the West End Holiday Tours.
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NOTE: House descriptions are taken with modifications from the National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form for the West End Historic District filed in 1986. www.cityofws.org/DocumentCenter/View/34958/West-End-Historic-Overlay-District-Report-PDF
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Triad Trolley Route
The Lady Katherine Trolley will provide free Hop-On/Hop-Off shuttle service from Noon until 4:45PM during the tour. The shuttle route is CLOCKWISE around the loop shown in the map.
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THANK YOU TO OUR 2024 TOUR SPONSORS!
