Hillside, Historic residence in North Carolina, US
Hillside, also known as the Julian Price House, is a four-story, 31-room Tudor Revival mansion at 7,266 square feet, built in 1929 in Greensboro's Fisher Park neighborhood. Architect Charles C. Hartmann gave it red-brown rough fired brick, half-timbering with tan stucco, and a three-story polygonal stair tower. A rustic board-and-batten gardener's cottage also stands on the grounds.
Hillside was designed by architect Charles C. Hartmann and built in 1929 for insurance executive Julian Price and his wife Ethel Clay Price. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and lies within the Fisher Park Historic District. In 2016 it was sold at foreclosure, and after refurbishment it opened as a designer showcase in April 2018.
The house is known as the Julian Price House after the insurance executive who commissioned it in 1929. From 1975 the interior designer Sandra Cowart lived there, renting rooms and giving frequent tours; in January 2017 the property and Cowart appeared on an episode of A&E's Hoarders. Since 2018 the owners have opened it as a designer showcase and sought to run it as a bed and breakfast.
Hillside stands at the edge of Fisher Park in Greensboro, an urban neighborhood north of downtown, not in open countryside. It is a private home, so visits are not generally possible; the house can be seen from the surrounding streets. The property has been the subject of zoning disputes over use as a bed and breakfast and events venue.
Sandra Cowart, an interior designer who lived at Hillside from 1975, was featured with the house on an episode of A&E's Hoarders in January 2017. After 2005 she rarely let anyone inside, and the home was eventually foreclosed; she sold her belongings for nearly $14,000 before moving into an Airstream.
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