Porch detail, Reynolda, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Reynolda House (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
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Item information
- Title:
- Porch detail, Reynolda, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
- Topics:
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Architecture
- Subjects:
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Columns
Fireplaces
Mansions
Porches
- Original Format:
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Color slide
- Item identifier:
- buch0251
- Photographer:
- Buchman, Tim more info on Buchman, Tim
- Created Date:
- Genre:
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Architectural photographs
- Location:
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Winston-Salem (N.C.)
- Digital Project:
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Built Heritage
Source information
- Repository:
- Preservation North Carolina
- Collection:
- Tim Buchman Photographs, 1988-1998 (MC00583) held by Preservation North Carolina
- Note field:
- Not all materials from the physical collection may have been scanned. Images may have been enhanced for web access.
- Rights:
- Reproduction and use of this material requires permission from Preservation North Carolina. For general information see the Preservation North Carolina website (http://www.presnc.org).
- RightsStatements.org:
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In Copyright
For more information:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0 - Funding:
- Digitization of this image was partially supported with federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds made possible through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.
Building: Reynolda House (Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina)
- Ironsmith:
- Yellin, Samuel, 1885-1940 more info on Yellin, Samuel, 1885-1940
- Architect:
- Keen, Charles Barton, 1868-1931 more info on Keen, Charles Barton, 1868-1931
- Landscape architect:
- Sears, Thomas W. more info on Sears, Thomas W.
- Architect:
- Northup, Willard Close more info on Northup, Willard Close, 1882-1942
- Built:
- Street:
- 2250 Reynolda Rd.
- Community:
- Winston-Salem
- State:
- North Carolina
- Zip:
- 27106
- Provenance note:
- Built for Katherine Smith Reynolds and her husband Richard Joshua (R. J.) Reynolds, first owners. Reynolds was a tobacco magnate in the early 1900s who founded the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Today the building is the Reynolda House Museum of American Art.
- Architectural note:
- The residence was built in the "informal bungalow" style with Colonial Revival interior details. The interior ironwork was executed by Philadelphian Samuel Yellin. The estate included a church, a power plant, greenhouses, employee cottages, carriage sheds, a blacksmith shop, dairy barns, a post office, and a horticulturist's cottage.
- Historical note:
- The property was given to Wake Forest University in 1965. Reynolda is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is today the Reynolda House Museum of American Art.
- Location:
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Winston-Salem (N.C.)
- Subjects:
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Historic buildings
Historic sites
Mansions
Museums
National Register of Historic Places
- Latitude, Longitude:
- 36.126091, -80.28606