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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. It opened ...
An aerial view of Reynolda House around 1927 shows the 60-plus-room house with Lake Katharine behind it. Z. Smith Reynolds and his new wife, Libby Holman, hosted a birthday party for a friend on ...
The new Mrs. Johnston soon became pregnant and they, along with Katharine's children Mary, Nancy, and Smith, moved into a New York apartment to have easier access to doctors for the pregnancy. The night of May 1, 1922, a baby girl, Lola Katharine Johnston, was born to the couple, but passed away a day later at 11 o'clock in the morning. [30]
After the death of Mrs. Reynolds (then remarried as Mrs. Johnston) in 1924, most of the property was gradually sold or given away, including a gift of 300 acres (1.2 km 2) to Wake Forest College in the late 1940s for its Winston-Salem campus.
The William R. Heath House was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, built from 1903 to 1905, and is located at 76 Soldiers Place in Buffalo, New York. It is built in the Prairie School architectural style. It is a contributing property in the Elmwood Historic District–East historic district [1] and a City of Buffalo landmark. [2]
The R. J. Reynolds Memorial Auditorium, located in Winston-Salem, NC, [1] was built 1919–1924 under the direction of architect Charles Barton Keen [2] (designer of the R. J. Reynolds estate, Reynolda House). Keen also designed the adjacent Richard J. Reynolds High School.
Working candy shop built in late 1920s, still making its own product on site 131: Parkside East Historic District: Parkside East Historic District: October 17, 1986 : Roughly bounded by Parkside Ave., Amherst St., Colvin Ave., New York Central RR tracks, Main St., and Humboldt Ave.
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 ...