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Are the bathrooms in this house cool or unnerving? Check them out in NC home for sale

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An elegant Colonial Revival-style bed-and-breakfast inn not only radiates southern charm, but it’s also on the real estate market in Greensboro, North Carolina, for $1.7 million.

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And while the six-bedroom, nine-bathroom place, known as Double Oaks, has a certain old-fashioned style in some rooms, the bathrooms stand out in a pretty intense way.

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Or, are they just simply cool upgrades in a historic home?

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Once called the Harden Thomas Martin House, the 6,700-square-foot property was built 1909 and accepted into the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, according to the listing on Zillow.com.

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The house is the only known residential design of G. Will Armfield, a Guilford County native who pursued a successful career as a dry goods merchant before taking up architecture in his late 50s,” the Double Oaks website said of the home’s history.

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“The home was built for Harden Thomas Martin, a native of Rockingham County who operated stores in Ayersville and Reidsville before moving to Greensboro in 1909, where he entered semi-retirement and engaged in small-scale real estate development.”

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The estate not only sports the interesting-looking bathrooms but also has other amenity highlights, according to the listing, including:

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  • Grand split-run staircase

  • The home’s original fireplaces

  • Porte-cochere

  • Two-story lonic portico

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But it’s the bathrooms that caught the eye of the Twitter account @TriangleWeird, which scouts out unique, and often odd, homes on the real estate market in North Carolina.

“Honestly these bathrooms are kinda intimidating,” one tweet in the thread said.

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Greensboro is about 92 miles northeast of Charlotte.

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This story was originally published March 10, 2022 at 1:28 PM with the headline "Are the bathrooms in this house cool or unnerving? Check them out in NC home for sale."

TJ Macias
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
TJ Macías is a Real-Time national sports reporter for McClatchy based out of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. Formerly, TJ covered the Dallas Mavericks and Texas Rangers beat for numerous media outlets including 24/7 Sports and Mavs Maven (Sports Illustrated). Twitter: @TayloredSiren
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