Ardmore.

Ardmore sits between Hanes Park and downtown Winston-Salem — close enough to both that neither feels like a drive.

It was built primarily between 1910 and 1940, when Winston-Salem was in its industrial heyday and the tobacco and textile money was reshaping the city. The neighborhood went up as middle-class housing for bank clerks, factory foremen, and teachers. What that means for buyers today is straightforward: the bones are good. Plaster walls. Real hardwoods. Fireplaces that worked once and can again. Front porches sized for two chairs and an opinion.

The architecture runs the range — Craftsman bungalows with wide front porches and exposed rafter tails, Cape Cods with steep rooflines, brick colonials, occasional Tudors with half-timbered gables. Most are 1,200–2,000 square feet, three bedrooms, built on modest lots that back up to alleys. The housing stock is dense in the best way — enough variety that no two blocks feel the same and enough consistency that the neighborhood has a clear identity.

Getting around here without a car is actually possible. From most Ardmore addresses you can get to Hanes Park's 37 acres of trails and tennis courts on foot. The Strollway greenway takes you into downtown without crossing a major road. Miller Street has a bakery, a coffee shop, and a vintage store that turns into a bar on Thursday nights. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is half a mile from the eastern edge of the neighborhood. The combination of sidewalk-lined streets inside an otherwise car-dependent city is genuinely unusual in Winston-Salem — and it's the thing residents talk about most once they're here.