Keeping Greensboro Great

If you want to live in Lindley Park (and who doesn’t) buy the original property, 808 Northridge St. the first house built on what then was Oak Ave named for the  many magnificent red oaks (one’s still one the front corner of the property the street was renamed Northridge St.) 

Built in 1914 by Albert Eugene Fordham a Greensboro patriarch owner of Fordham Shoe Company, Market St.  for his wife.

Jean Dailey, 7th owner, 5th to live in this home of the propitious

 Victorian era & successful North Carolina merchant. Selected to be in in the Brown Book of Architecturally Significant homes in Greensboro.

Jack Stone MFA UNC-G artist

The home is made entirely from heart of pine.  Everything structurally is original dating to the early 1920’s preserved in the beauty of that time.

In the 1940’s the Fordham family became well known.  Albert’s Eugene’s cousin Christopher moved here with him in 1900 from Eastern NC he was a pharmacist.  Fordham Pharmacy South Elm St. had a real Italian marble soda fountain.  Christopher’s grandson in the 1940's was Dean of Chapel Hill’s Medical School the Fordham building on campus is named for him as is Fordham Boulevard.