Dr. Elias Kerner House

414 South Main Street - Built 1857, this is a two-story common bond brick house, five bays wide, with a three-bay , two tiered, gabled portico and exterior end chimneys. There is a two-story frame addition and an one-story shed rear addition, with a gallery connecting the house and the garage. The bricks in the house were made in a kiln located in a nearby hollow while timber on the property provided the needed work.

The house was built in 1857 by Dr. Elias Kerner, son of John Fredrick Kerner and their generation of Joseph Kerner. Dr. Kerner was the first full-time doctor in Kernersville and had his office in a seperate building in the side yar. Six generations of Kerners have lived in this house.