Live in Dunleath
The Summit Avenue neighborhood the Cone brothers laid out in the 1890s, where 693 of the 727 residents live in the City's Dunleath local historic district and the County's rate table adds 5 cents per $100 for it.
Dunleath is the area the City of Greensboro's neighborhood map draws northeast of downtown and labels Dunleath / Summit Ave: 727 residents in 525 housing units on 129 acres at the 2020 census. Its spine is Summit Avenue, paved on Ceasar Cone's proposal and finished in 1898 to join downtown to the Cone mills, and the 1993 National Register nomination dates its houses from 1895 to the Second World War. The City zoned it a local historic district in 1984 as the Charles B. Aycock Historic District, and in 2017 residents renamed it for the villa that once stood on the land; of the guide's residents, 693 live inside that district, where exterior changes need a certificate of appropriateness. The County's rate table charges a Dunleath Historic District 5 cents per $100 on top of the city's 158.80 cents, 163.80 in all on the 2022 values for 2026, though whether the tax line and the historic district's line are exactly the same was not compared.
A boulevard the Cones paved, and a district that renamed itself
An area the City of Greensboro's own neighborhood map draws: one polygon of the City's hosted neighborhood layer, named Dunleath / Summit Ave (OBJECTID 9), published for its Neighborhood Traffic Management Program and marked VERIFIED NO, which the City's companion point layer describes as estimated and not to be considered accurate, clipped to the current City limits (no part falls outside). It is not an association's territory, a plat or an adopted line. Traced on the City's street centerlines, East Bessemer Avenue runs along the north for about 1.2 km, Sullivan Street along part of the east and a short stretch of North Church Street at the west, with a highway access ramp at the southern tip; Yanceyville Street, Summit Avenue, Cypress Street and Dewey Street run through it. The City's Dunleath local historic district holds 693 of the guide's 2020 residents, and the 1993 Summit Avenue National Register district, roughly bounded by Chestnut, East Bessemer, Cypress, Dewey, Park and Percy streets, holds 619. The whole guide is in Guilford County, Guilford County Schools, City Council District 2, the area of the City's Dunleath neighborhood plan, and the 27405 ZIP code.
Dunleath, on this page, is the area the City of Greensboro's own neighborhood map draws northeast of downtown and labels "Dunleath / Summit Ave": 129 acres south of East Bessemer Avenue, with Summit Avenue and Yanceyville Street through it. The City publishes that map for its traffic-calming program, calls its centers estimated and marks this polygon unverified, so it is not a plat or an association's territory, and this guide claims nothing about where residents think Dunleath ends. It held 727 residents in 525 housing units in 2020.
It was built along a road a mill owner paid for. In 1895 Moses and Ceasar Cone bought about 2,000 acres north of town for their mills, and Ceasar Cone offered to lend the city the money to pave Summit Avenue across his land. A taxpayer sued, calling it a giveaway and a tax dodge, and lost; the avenue was finished in 1898, and a streetcar ran up it to the mills from 1902. Mill executives and clerks built the Queen Anne houses of 1895 to 1910 that the 1993 National Register nomination says almost all survive, then foursquares and bungalows. Harry Barton, who designed the county courthouse downtown, designed Sigmund Sternberger's house at 712 Summit Avenue in 1926.
The district came first, and the name in 2017. The City zoned the neighborhood a local historic district in 1984 and called it the Charles B. Aycock Historic District, after the 1922 school on Cypress Street. In 2017 residents dropped the name of the governor who, in the words of the post announcing the change, promoted segregation and the end of Black voting rights, and took Dunleath from Judge Robert P. Dick's villa, which stood on the land; the school became Swann Middle. On the City's maps 693 of the residents live inside the local district, where exterior changes need a certificate of appropriateness from the Historic Preservation Commission. What the commission reviews, how long it takes and what it costs were not read, because the City's website refused this guide's requests: call its preservation staff before you offer. The Summit Avenue National Register district, which holds 619, restricts nothing a private owner does with private money.
The district is also a tax line. County and City charge 158.80 cents per $100 for 2026-27, and the County's table adds a Dunleath Historic District rate of 5 cents, 163.80 in all: on a house assessed at $300,000, about $4,914 a year instead of $4,764. Whether that tax line matches the historic district's exactly was not compared. Senate Bill 889 put the 2026 reappraisal off to the 2027 bills, so the rate falls on 2022 values and a buyer's first bill follows the seller's old assessment. Stormwater and solid waste fees come on the water bill and were read only secondhand (see the Greensboro page). North Carolina has no homestead exemption for an ordinary buyer; the County's three relief programs are for qualifying older, disabled and veteran owners. No sale price is published for the neighborhood, and Zillow's $218,594 for August 2026 is the whole 27405 ZIP, 51,506 people in 2020.
Day to day, it sits between downtown and A&T. Routes 15 and 6 stop within 0.2 km of the reference point every 30 minutes at weekday midday, and the Curb Market is a few minutes' walk south. North Carolina A&T's campus is 0.7 km away, and the census tract holding every resident counts 28.6% of its people in college, a tract-wide figure with wide margins. Nobody lived on a block in a flood hazard area in 2020.
- Check whether the parcel is in the local historic district and on the Dunleath tax code: 693 of the 727 residents are in the district
- Call the City's historic preservation staff about any addition, porch or window change before you offer
- Work the tax bill at 163.80 cents per $100 inside the district, and expect it to move when the 2026 values reach the 2027 bills
- Run the address through Guilford County Schools' locator: Swann Middle is inside the line, but residents are zoned for Kiser
- Mark homecoming week, 25 October to 1 November in 2026, with the game at Truist Stadium, 1.1 km east
How Dunleath got here
- 1856Judge Robert P. Dick's Gothic and Italianate villa, Dunleith, stands on an estate of about 160 acres near today's Chestnut Street, by the National Register nomination's date of about 1856; the post announcing the 2017 renaming says 1857. The site is vacant.
- 1891The city limits are extended north to Bessemer Avenue. On the City's annexation layer, the land under 662 of the guide's 727 residents of 2020 came in that year; the rest was in the city by 1837.
- 1895Moses and Ceasar Cone buy about 2,000 acres north and northeast of the city from the North Carolina Steel and Iron Company, and Ceasar Cone offers to lend the city money to grade and macadamize Summit Avenue from Lindsay Street to Bessemer Avenue.
- 1896A taxpayer, W. O. Stratford, sues to stop the deal as a waste of tax money, a giveaway to Cone and a tax dodge. The suit fails, and city voters approve the road.
- 1898Summit Avenue is finished from downtown through the neighborhood to the Proximity Cotton Mill. The Greensboro Patriot calls it probably the finest highway in North Carolina.
- 1902Greensboro's electric streetcars begin on 11 June, and one of the two first routes runs up Summit Avenue to the Cone and Sternberger mills.
- 1905Ceasar Cone's Summit Avenue Building Company files a plat of blocks and lots between Percy, Park and Dewey streets; by 1913 it has subdivided almost the whole neighborhood.
- 1922The Charles B. Aycock School opens at 811 Cypress Street, the largest of four schools the New York firm of Starrett and Van Vleck designs for the consolidated city system.
- 1926World War Memorial Stadium opens on Yanceyville Street on 11 November, and Sigmund Sternberger's house goes up at 712 Summit Avenue, the finest Italian Renaissance Revival house in the city by the nomination's account.
- 1984The City zones the neighborhood a local historic district, the Charles B. Aycock Historic District, drawn larger than the National Register district that follows.
- 1993The Summit Avenue Historic District is listed on the National Register: 227 of its 269 resources contribute, and its period of significance runs from 1895 to 1942.
- 2005The city's minor league baseball team leaves Memorial Stadium for a new park downtown. North Carolina A&T's baseball team plays at the stadium.
- 2017Residents rename the neighborhood Dunleath, after the villa, and drop the name of Governor Charles B. Aycock, who promoted segregation and the disfranchisement of Black voters. Guilford County Schools renames Aycock Middle for Melvin C. Swann Jr., a longtime administrator.
- 2026Guilford County and the City raise their rates to 78.95 and 79.85 cents per $100, applied to the 2022 values because Senate Bill 889, signed on 19 June, put the County's 2026 reappraisal off to the 2027 bills.
The open space is small, and the ballpark is next door
Sternberger Park is the one park inside the line, on OpenStreetMap's map; its facilities were not read. Just south on Yanceyville Street, World War Memorial Stadium opened on 11 November 1926 as a memorial to the First World War and seats 7,500; the city's minor league team left it for downtown in 2005, and North Carolina A&T's baseball team plays there now. The Greensboro Farmers Curb Market at 501 Yanceyville Street opens on Saturday mornings all year.
What the map does not show: the nomination describes narrow urban lots with shallow front lawns, so most of the green is in yards and street trees. Fisher Park, the larger park, is across the railroad to the west, about 0.9 km away.
Elsewhere in Greensboro, not Dunleath
25 places, with real drive times
Road-adjusted distance and drive time from the centre of the community to each destination, nearest first. Filter by category.
Showing 1–12 of 25 places, nearest first.
Method: distances and drive times are computed from the population-weighted center of the guide's 2020 census blocks, near Yanceyville and Cypress streets, using straight-line distance multiplied by a road factor and a tiered speed model: honest ranges, not routed times.
Every gym within reach
There is no gym or pool in the guide. The nearest YMCA is the Kathleen Price Bryan Family YMCA downtown, whose facilities its page does not list. The City's nearest pool is the outdoor one at Windsor Community Park, about 3 km by road, and its two indoor pools are at the Smith Active Adult Center and the Greensboro Aquatic Center. Pool seasons and fees were not read.
- Kathleen Price Bryan Family YMCA, 501 West Market Street: the nearest gym
- Swimming Pool at Windsor Community Park, 1601 East Gate City Boulevard: outdoor
- Smith Active Adult Center, 2401 Fairview Street: an indoor City pool
| Facility | What it is | Drive |
|---|---|---|
| Kathleen Price Bryan Family YMCA open | 501 West Market Street downtown, the nearest YMCA of Greensboro branch. Its locations page lists no facilities, so whether it has a pool was not read. | 5–7 min |
| Swimming Pool at Windsor Community Park open | 1601 East Gate City Boulevard: the nearest City pool, outdoors. Its season was not read. | 6–9 min |
| Smith Active Adult Center open | 2401 Fairview Street, north: a City center with one of the City's two indoor pools. Who may use it, and when, was not read. | 6–10 min |
| Peeler Recreation Center open | 1300 Sykes Avenue: a City recreation center with an outdoor City pool. The City's layer says to call for hours. | 7–11 min |
| Warnersville Recreation Center open | 601 Doak Street: a City recreation center with an outdoor City pool, south of downtown. | 6–10 min |
The free option is Summit Avenue itself, under the canopy, and the walk downtown.
A school inside the line, and zones across town
Guilford County Schools assigns by the attendance zone of the home. On the district's 2026-27 layers the point and all 727 residents are zoned for Irving Park Elementary (C for 2024-25, D for 2023-24), Kiser Middle (C both years) and Grimsley High (B both years), all across the city to the west. Swann Middle, in the 1922 Aycock School on Cypress Street, is inside the line, but nobody in the guide is zoned for it; it has no 2024-25 grade in the state's file. No school-level file of the 2025-26 grades was found.
| School | Board | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Irving Park Elementary School | Guilford County Schools | The point is zoned for Irving Park Elementary on the district's 2026-27 layer, and so are all 727 residents of 2020. It is at 1310 Sunset Drive, 3.21 km northwest in a straight line. NC School Report Card grades: C for 2024-25, D for 2023-24; no school-level file of the 2025-26 grades was found. |
| Kiser Middle School | Guilford County Schools | The zone for all 727 residents, at 407 Campus Drive, 3.25 km northwest in a straight line. Graded C for 2024-25 and 2023-24. |
| Grimsley High School | Guilford County Schools | The zone for all 727 residents, at 801 North Josephine Boyd Street, 2.8 km west in a straight line. Graded B for 2024-25 and 2023-24. |
| Swann Middle School | Guilford County Schools | The only district school inside the line, at 811 Cypress Street in the former Aycock School, renamed in 2017. Living beside it does not zone a family for it: on the 2026-27 layers no resident of the guide is. The state's 2024-25 file carries no grade for it; it was graded D for 2023-24. |
Run the exact address through the district's School Assignment Locator before you commit. Choice programs take applications in the fall, and most of their seats go by lottery.
Month by month, what living here looks like
Not a highlights reel: the actual annual rhythm, including the dates residents have to remember.
- Highs near 9.6 °C and lows near -1.1 °C at Piedmont Triad International on the 1991 to 2020 normals, with 19.5 nights at or below freezing, the most of any month
- 7.4 cm of snow on the January normal, the snowiest month of a year that averages 18 cm
- With the trees bare, look at the turrets, porches and rooflines of the Queen Anne houses of 1895 to 1910 the nomination describes
- Highs near 11.8 °C, 15.1 freezing nights and 5.1 cm of snow on the normal
- Inside the local district, plan any exterior work now: the certificate of appropriateness comes before the contractor
- The Curb Market on Yanceyville Street keeps its Saturday morning hours all winter, a few minutes' walk from the point
- Highs near 16.3 °C, 94 mm of rain and 8 freezing nights on the normal
- No resident of 2020 lived on a block in a flood hazard area, and only 0.02% of the guide's ground is mapped in one
- FEMA's maps for the city took effect on 10 June 2026: look the address up anyway
- Highs near 21.7 °C and 1.1 freezing nights on the normal, the last of the season
- The Curb Market adds its Tuesday evening market, 4 to 7 p.m., through October
- 96 mm of rain on the April normal
- Highs near 25.6 °C and lows near 13.9 °C, and no frost on the normal
- The first day at or above 32 °C comes on average in May, 1.1 of them
- The canopy closes over Summit Avenue and the narrow lots behind it
- Highs near 29.6 °C, 104 mm of rain and 6.6 days at or above 32 °C on the normal
- 1 June is Guilford County's yearly deadline to apply for its three property tax relief programs
- The County and the City adopt the next year's rates: in 2026 the City on 16 June and the County on 25 June
- Highs near 31.4 °C and 13.7 days at or above 32 °C on the normal
- Routes 6 and 15 run every 30 minutes on weekdays and hourly on weekends
- 106 mm of rain on the July normal
- Highs near 30.3 °C and 111 mm of rain on the normal
- The County's rate sheet gives a 1% discount on the property tax paid before 1 September
- Inside the historic tax district the 2026 bill is 163.80 cents per $100, on the 2022 values
- The wettest month at Piedmont Triad International, 117 mm on the normal, with highs near 26.9 °C
- The North Carolina Folk Festival takes over downtown, about 1.1 km southwest; the 2026 festival ran from 18 to 20 September and the 2027 dates are not posted
- 1 September is the last day for the County's 1% early payment discount
- North Carolina A&T's homecoming runs from 25 October to 1 November 2026, with the game on 31 October at Truist Stadium, 1.1 km east of the point
- The driest month on the normal, 79 mm, with highs near 21.7 °C
- The Curb Market's last Tuesday evening markets of the year
- Highs near 15.9 °C and 7.7 freezing nights on the normal
- World War Memorial Stadium on Yanceyville Street opened on 11 November 1926 as a memorial to the First World War
- 83 mm of rain on the normal
- Highs near 11.1 °C, 16.6 freezing nights and 3 cm of snow on the normal
- If you bought this year, read your first bill against the seller's 2022 assessment, not your price
- The 2026 reappraisal values go on the 2027 bills, at rates not yet set
4 more photographs of Greensboro and the region
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