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Reynolda Village is a shopping and business complex in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, created from the servant and agricultural buildings of Reynolda, the former R. J. Reynolds estate. The village, which covers around 13.5 acres (5.5 ha), [ 1 ] was planned as a working model farm , designed by Charles Barton Keen and Willard C. Northup in the ...
Reynolda Historic District is a 178 acres (72 ha) national historic district located on Reynolda Road in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It includes work by Charles Barton Keen and by landscape architect Thomas Warren Sears. The listing includes twenty-two contributing buildings and one other contributing structure.
The gardens are open daily with free admission. The gardens were originally part of a large country estate and farm (1067 acres) created by tobacco magnate R. J. Reynolds and his wife Katharine Smith Reynolds between 1906 and 1923.
Five Row was a community for African American farmhands and their families who worked in the Reynolda Village and Reynolda House in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. [1] [2] It was characterized by two rows of 5 houses as well as a school house that was used on Sundays as a church. [3]
The student-run Reynolda Film Festival is a free weeklong series of film screenings and workshops featuring a keynote address by a well-known and respected representative of the film industry. [255] The Secrest Artists Series offers the Wake Forest community several free opportunities each year to hear world-class concerts. [256]
The Reynolda House Museum of American Art displays a premiere collection of American art ranging from the colonial period to the present. Built in 1917 by Katharine Smith Reynolds and her husband R. J. Reynolds , founder of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company , the house originally occupied the center of a 1,067-acre (4.32 km 2 ) estate.
Graylyn Estate circa 1932. In 1925, spouses Nathalie Lyons Gray and Bowman Gray Sr., chairman of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, purchased the 87-acre estate from R. J. Reynolds with the plan of building “the home of their dreams.” [5] The land had formerly been corn fields and pasture for the Reynolda Estate, which is now referred to as the Reynolda Historic District. [6]
TourRadar was spun-out of Bugbitten in June 2010 and has since grown to include the ability to find, book and review multi-day tours. [ 4 ] In June 2013, TourRadar announced a round of angel funding from investors including Erik Blachford, the former CEO of Expedia .