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    Reynolda:: 1906-1924
    Reynolda:: 1906-1924
    Reynolda:: 1906-1924
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    Reynolda:: 1906-1924

    By Barbara Babcock Millhouse

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    Reynolda--with its family home and gardens, experimental farm, village, and woodland--is an excellent example of the Country Place era. This popular destination in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was created between 1906 and 1924 through the collaboration of three talented people: visionary Katharine Reynolds, architect Charles Barton Keen, and landscape architect Thomas W. Sears. With the financial backing of her husband, founder of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Katharine Reynolds transformed a patchwork of worn-out farmland into a landscape of great natural beauty that includes a formal garden, 16-acre lake, recreational facilities, and some of the finest cropland. The sparkling white cluster of village buildings and their occupants are also integral to this story.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateSep 18, 2012
    ISBN9781439641736
    Reynolda:: 1906-1924
    Author

    Barbara Babcock Millhouse

    These period photographs from the archives of Reynolda House Museum of American Art, an affiliate of Wake Forest University, document the still-in-tact core of the former 1,067-acre estate, which is highly regarded for its historical significance. This book will be of special interest to the thousands of people who enjoy Reynolda today. Barbara Babcock Millhouse, founding president of Reynolda House Museum of American Art and a Reynolds family member, is also the author of American Wilderness: The Story of the Hudson River School of Painting.

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      Reynolda: - Barbara Babcock Millhouse

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      MEETING THE REYNOLDS FAMILY

      This c. 1914 photograph shows Katharine and R.J. Reynolds and their four children sitting at a table in their Fifth Street house in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It was taken at a time when Katharine and R.J. often drove the three miles to Reynolda to oversee the progress of their country estate. The farm had been in operation for two years, the golf course was complete, and their residence, invariably referred to as the bungalow, was under construction. From left to right, the children are Dick, Mary, Nancy, and Smith.

      R.J. Reynolds was 54 years old when he married for the first time. In 1905, the year of his marriage, he was a successful plug tobacco manufacturer—so successful, in fact, that the Mount Airy News described him as the wealthiest man in the state. His bride, Katharine Smith, whom he had known since her childhood, grew up in Mount Airy, North Carolina. After attending North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College, which prepared women for the workplace, she had accepted a job as a stenographer at the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Despite a 30-year age gap, they apparently had a happy marriage. Katharine’s sister Ruth Smith explained, I don’t think there was any doubt about the genuine attraction because it was as happy a household as one could imagine. I can’t recall ever hearing a cross word or anything disagreeable happening or being said.... He was very handsome in that period; he looked like a Spanish don.

      Upon returning from their European honeymoon, R.J. and his bride moved into this Queen Anne–style house. Built around 1900, it was located at 666 West Fifth Street, a mile from the tobacco factories. In the evenings after the children went to bed, R.J. and Katharine withdrew to the sitting room in the turret, where they spent many evenings looking over plans for their country estate, Reynolda.

      On hot summer days, relatives and friends were drawn to the veranda of the Fifth Street house. This photograph shows, from left to right, R.J. and Katharine Reynolds with nieces Lucy Lybrook Stedman and May Lybrook. At the far right sits brother-in-law James Dunn, who probably strolled over from his house across the street. West Fifth Street was a friendly neighborhood made up of the Reynoldses’ relatives and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company executives—many of whom were

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