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unctv.org/ncnow | Reynolda House Museum of American Art—Maria Lundberg gives us a tour of the restored 1917 mansion of Katharine and R.J. Reynolds, founder of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. The mansion turned museum, displays a premiere collection of American art ranging from the colonial period to the present. (Forsyth Co.) | unctv.org/ncnow
Reynolda House Museum of American Art
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 km2) estate. It opened to the public as an institution dedicated to the arts and education in 1965, and as an art museum in 1967. The house holds one of the country's finest collections of American paintings. It is located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
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Join Julia Carpenter on a tour of this art museum and former home of R.J. and Katharine Reynolds (of Reynolds Tobacco fame). From the grand entrance to the meticulously decorated rooms, the home is as beautiful as the American art it houses.
“Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern” at Reynolda House Museum of American Art
The Reynolda House Museum of American Art hosts a major exhibition of Georgia O’Keeffe’s art and clothing.
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Celeste-Marie Bernier on Horace Pippin's The Whipping (1940)
We recently welcomed Celeste-Marie Bernier, Professor of Black Studies and Personal Chair in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, to Reynolda House! While in North Carolina on a fellowship from the National Humanities Center in Durham, Celeste traveled to Winston-Salem to see our collection, tour the bungalow, and give an informal lecture on Horace Pippin's haunting 1940 oil painting The Whipping.
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Reynolda House, Winston Salem, NC 2014
Photo tour highlights of Historic R. J. Reynolds mansion's grounds.
Richard Joshua Reynolds, was the founder of the tobacco company that bears his name, was a key player in the industrialization of the New South. He established his own tobacco factory in Winston, North Carolina in 1875, eventually becoming enormously successful from the sale of Prince Albert tobacco and Camel cigarettes. He married Katharine Smith in 1905, and they had four children, Dick, Mary, Nancy, and Smith.
Nancy Susan Reynolds (Interview 4a): Reynolda House Museum of American Art Oral History Project
Interview 4: 19 June 1980, Greenwich, CT
Daughter of Katharine and R. J. Reynolds
Interviewer: Lu Ann Jones
Four interviews in 1980 with the first taking place in Winston-Salem, NC and the others at Quarry Farm in Greenwich, CT.
Nancy Susan Reynolds (1910-1985), youngest daughter of R.J. and Katharine Reynolds, was interviewed by Lu Ann Jones in the summer of 1980 as part of the Reynolda House Oral History Project. Over the course of four interview sessions, Reynolds intimately discusses her parents and early childhood, growing up at Reynolda, and what life was like for her and her three siblings after their parents’ death.
Nancy Reynolds kicks off the fourth and final interview, conducted on 19 June 1980, by discussing the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and details how her father named his most famous brands—Camel and Prince Albert. Brief recollection of her father’s stance regarding some of the pressure put upon him to “water the stock” by the Tobacco Trust is mentioned in relation to choosing the Camel name.
As in previous interviews, Reynolds provides snippets of information about her mother; one being a similarity she felt she shared with her for having “a great power of concentration,” and another that she had very black hair and very blue eyes. She tells that her mother’s family were bookworms and that the Smith’s attic was packed with books, and that Katharine Reynolds started her college education at the State Normal and Industrial College, now known as the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Katharine Reynolds had to leave due to a typhoid epidemic and finished her studies at Sullins College in Bristol, Virginia. Nancy Reynolds also tells that her mother was talented and interested in painting, sewing, and designing her own clothes.
During this interview Reynolds also discusses her first marriage to Henry Bagley, motherhood, and their children—Anne, Jane, Susan, and Smith. She spoke about Jane and Smith’s involvement in the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, Susan’s humanitarian work in Africa, and Anne not following a professional path but being predominantly family centered. As well, she recognizes that Smith and her brother Dick shared an interest in politics, and mentions that Charlie Babcock was instrumental in getting the Republican Party started in Winston.
Reynolds also talks about her return to college in 1956, studying history at Columbia University. She remarried in 1960 and relates that her second husband Gilbert Verney was a sailor and that they went on some wonderful trips. The marriage did not last and Reynolds provides input about both of her divorces. Reynolds also explains that she returned to her maiden name after divorcing Verney since he insisted that she drop his surname. Despite Bagley offering the use of his name again, Reynolds decided, “After all, the name I was born with I had a right to, and [that] nobody could tell me I couldn’t use, was Reynolds. So I used it.”
A wide range of topics are recollected by Reynolds as the interview progresses, including her visits to Dick and Blitz Reynolds at Sapelo Island in South Carolina, and her building a house and designing gardens on her property on Saint Simon’s Island in South Carolina. She describes the room at Reynolda House that was prepared for her father upon his return from the hospital, which is where he died, and that she considers the years from 1921-1924 to be the most stable years of her life while at Reynolda. Several employees she remembers are Lizzie Thompson, a nursemaid and later telephone operator, and Ben Bernard, Katharine Reynold’s secretary after R.J. Reynolds died. Nancy Reynolds concludes the interview by candidly speaking about her brother Smith’s tragic death and the negative publicity that followed.
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About Reynolda House
Reynolda House Museum of American Art, built in 1917, was originally the family home of Katharine Smith Reynolds and her husband Richard Joshua Reynolds, founder of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. It opened to the public as an art museum in 1967 and today features a renowned collection of American art ranging from the Colonial period to the present, including works by Albert Bierstadt, Mary Cassatt, Frederic Church, John Singleton Copley, Thomas Eakins, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe and Grant Wood. Reynolda House's costume collection includes 700 articles of clothing dating from 1890 to 1965. Visit Reynolda House this spring — it's the perfect time to take a walk around the formal gardens designed by landscape architect Thomas Sears.
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Spring Turning, 1936 by Grant Wood
Art © Figge Art Museum, successors to the Estate of Nan Wood Graham/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
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Shober Ray (Pops) Hendrix (Interview 1b): Reynolda House Museum of American Art Oral History Project
Interview 1: 16 July 1980, Winston-Salem, NC
Head Electrician & long-time resident of Reynolda Village
Interviewer: Patty Dilly
Two interviews in 1980
Shober Ray (Pops) Hendrix, an electrician who worked at Reynolda from 1927 until his retirement in 1965, was interviewed by Patty Dilly on both 16 July and 25 July 1980 as part of the Reynolda House Museum of American Art Oral History Project. Hendrix remained on the Reynolda payroll after his official retirement and resided at Reynolda Village until he passed away in 1991. The main topics of discussion in the interview sessions were Hendrix’s first jobs as an electrician, working for Reynolda, Inc., on the estate and then for the Babcock family at the house, as well as what it was like for him to live on the property.
In the first interview conducted on 16 July 1980, Hendrix tells how he came to Winston in 1915 from Tobaccoville when he was just 15 years old. He found work as a “helper” at the Electric Service Company, earning ten cents an hour, and explains, “Back then there wasn’t no high wages no way. In fact, electricians was only getting forty or fifty cents an hour.” In 1927, he went to work for Reynolda, Inc., and not only did electrical work on the estate but also on other properties, including the Graylyn estate. “At the time Reynolda was doing commercial work—electric work, plumbing, steam fitting, landscaping,” Hendrix says. He recollects that Steve Warrenkin was the superintendent of Reynolda, Inc,. and was sent by the Baltimore Trust Company, then administrator of the estate. (There may be a possible discrepancy in this name which may instead, according to some records, be Stewart Warneken, noted as a trust manager.)
Hendrix describes working in Roaring Gap, North Carolina, in the early 1930s on the construction of Devotion, the homestead of Dick Reynolds, the eldest son of Katharine and R.J. Reynolds, and his wife Elizabeth McCaw Dillard “Blitz” Reynolds. According to Hendrix, “…[Dick] said it would be about three weeks’ work. I stayed up there a little over two years.” Hendrix wired the homes of numerous other Reynolds family members and friends in Roaring Gap. Later in the interview Hendrix tells that Dick Reynolds bought up thousands of acres in the area and heard that he would pay five dollars an acre, which people were happy to sell during the the years of the Great Depression. He also briefly shares his impression of Dick Reynolds.
In 1935, Hendrix was hired full time to work at Reynolda by Mary Reynolds Babcock, eldest daughter of Katharine and R.J. Reynolds, and her husband Charlie. Hendrix describes what it was like to work for the Babcocks and his relationship with them. He also talks a bit about the electrical and telephone wiring all being underground in the tunnels, both of which he was responsible for, and the extent of electrical work needed when the Babcocks remodelled the house and put in a swimming pool. Hendrix mentions that he was friendly with the other employees who lived on the estate, including Robert Conrad, head gardener; James A. Mahoney, plumber; Adrian Sigmon and W. E. Fulcher, night watchmen; and H. L. Warfield, head of the dairy. He also describes some of the activities the residents enjoyed while living at Reynolda.
Hendrix discusses these same topics in more depth as the interview continues, and recollects how the Great Depression took its toll on many people, saying, “…everybody was losing everything they had.” Hendrix lived in a house in Reynolda Village and talks about the tradeoff of lower wages for room and board, having everything paid “except my light bill,” he says. He speaks about the other workers that were also housed at Reynolda and with whom he became close, the African American community at Five Row, and his own family. He also talks about commuting weekly from Winston to Roaring Gap during the years that he worked there.
A topic of particular interest to Hendrix is the dairy and other farming at Reynolda. He tells that the Babcocks ended these operations as they were not making any money, nor had he believed that they ever made money since Katharine Reynolds’ death but were only for show. He talks specifically about the cows being attractive but drying up since they were not being milked properly, as well as hearing that the property and farms had been taken better care of when Katharine Reynolds was alive.
When Hendrix first started working full time at Reynolda no one resided at the house, though the Babcock family and other family members would gather for parties at Christmas and Easter. Toward the end of the interview he provides some details about living in an apartment in the main house with the Babcock family for about six years, and what his duties were at that time.
Reynolda's Centennial Ball
We celebrated 100 years of #Reynolda in a big way! On Saturday, October 7, nearly 100 members of the Reynolds family and 500 guests gathered on the lawn under two large and beautifully decorated tents for a once-in-a-century event. Re-live the event 100 years in the making.
Nancy Susan Reynolds (Interview 4b): Reynolda House Museum of American Art Oral History Project
Interview 4: 19 June 1980, Greenwich, CT
Daughter of Katharine and R. J. Reynolds
Interviewer: Lu Ann Jones
Four interviews in 1980 with the first taking place in Winston-Salem, NC and the others at Quarry Farm in Greenwich, CT.
Nancy Susan Reynolds (1910-1985), youngest daughter of R.J. and Katharine Reynolds, was interviewed by Lu Ann Jones in the summer of 1980 as part of the Reynolda House Oral History Project. Over the course of four interview sessions, Reynolds intimately discusses her parents and early childhood, growing up at Reynolda, and what life was like for her and her three siblings after their parents’ death.
Nancy Reynolds kicks off the fourth and final interview, conducted on 19 June 1980, by discussing the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and details how her father named his most famous brands—Camel and Prince Albert. Brief recollection of her father’s stance regarding some of the pressure put upon him to “water the stock” by the Tobacco Trust is mentioned in relation to choosing the Camel name.
As in previous interviews, Reynolds provides snippets of information about her mother; one being a similarity she felt she shared with her for having “a great power of concentration,” and another that she had very black hair and very blue eyes. She tells that her mother’s family were bookworms and that the Smith’s attic was packed with books, and that Katharine Reynolds started her college education at the State Normal and Industrial College, now known as the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Katharine Reynolds had to leave due to a typhoid epidemic and finished her studies at Sullins College in Bristol, Virginia. Nancy Reynolds also tells that her mother was talented and interested in painting, sewing, and designing her own clothes.
During this interview Reynolds also discusses her first marriage to Henry Bagley, motherhood, and their children—Anne, Jane, Susan, and Smith. She spoke about Jane and Smith’s involvement in the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, Susan’s humanitarian work in Africa, and Anne not following a professional path but being predominantly family centered. As well, she recognizes that Smith and her brother Dick shared an interest in politics, and mentions that Charlie Babcock was instrumental in getting the Republican Party started in Winston.
Reynolds also talks about her return to college in 1956, studying history at Columbia University. She remarried in 1960 and relates that her second husband Gilbert Verney was a sailor and that they went on some wonderful trips. The marriage did not last and Reynolds provides input about both of her divorces. Reynolds also explains that she returned to her maiden name after divorcing Verney since he insisted that she drop his surname. Despite Bagley offering the use of his name again, Reynolds decided, “After all, the name I was born with I had a right to, and [that] nobody could tell me I couldn’t use, was Reynolds. So I used it.”
A wide range of topics are recollected by Reynolds as the interview progresses, including her visits to Dick and Blitz Reynolds at Sapelo Island in South Carolina, and her building a house and designing gardens on her property on Saint Simon’s Island in South Carolina. She describes the room at Reynolda House that was prepared for her father upon his return from the hospital, which is where he died, and that she considers the years from 1921-1924 to be the most stable years of her life while at Reynolda. Several employees she remembers are Lizzie Thompson, a nursemaid and later telephone operator, and Ben Bernard, Katharine Reynold’s secretary after R.J. Reynolds died. Nancy Reynolds concludes the interview by candidly speaking about her brother Smith’s tragic death and the negative publicity that followed.
Nancy Susan Reynolds (Interview 2a): Reynolda House Museum of American Art Oral History Project
Interview 2: 17 June 1980, Greenwich, CT
Daughter of Katharine and R. J. Reynolds
Interviewer: Lu Ann Jones
Four interviews in 1980 with the first taking place in Winston-Salem, NC and the others at Quarry Farm in Greenwich, CT
Nancy Susan Reynolds (1910-1985), youngest daughter of R.J. and Katharine Reynolds, was interviewed by Lu Ann Jones in the summer of 1980 as part of the Reynolda House Oral History Project. Over the course of four interview sessions, Reynolds intimately discusses her parents and early childhood, growing up at Reynolda, and what life was like for her and her three siblings after their parents’ death.
In the second interview held on 17 June 1980, Nancy Reynolds describes her father’s family including her grandfather, William Hardin Reynolds, and some of her father’s siblings, Abram D. Reynolds, Harbour Reynolds, and Lucy Critz. In remembering her aunt Lucy Critz, Nancy recalls that she played the stock market when living in Winston, which “most of the ladies were doing at that time…before the Crash.” Nancy Reynolds also recalls stories about how the William Hardin Reynolds family and the property in Virginia were affected by the Civil War, and tells of the different locations that the descendents moved to, including Richmond, Virginia, and Long Island, New York. Mention is also made of Katharine Reynolds’ family, specifically her sister Maxie and her husband James Dunn.
One recollection from her childhood is how she and her older brother, Dick, dealt differently with being from a prominent family. Nancy Reynolds expressed that she “just wanted to be treated like anybody else,” and so on one occasion--when being placed for housing at a convention of a Girl Scout-type group in Raleigh, denied her relationship to the “tobacco Reynoldses.” Dick, on the other hand, made his association known when a student at the state school in Raleigh, yet nobody believed him. At this time Reynolds’ mother was still alive, and she says, “Oh, she [Katharine] was so upset about me, she thought I was ashamed of it. But it wasn’t [that], … [I] just didn’t want to be conspicuous.
Nancy Reynolds recalls various trips she took over the years, including Mediterranean cruises and an extended trip to Florida. She and her sister Mary had chaperones for these travels, and while also living in New York City, and both found the situation disconcerting. Their chaperone, Miss Green, “…wanted to introduce us to high society, and we didn’t like that,” says Reynolds. Katharine’s sister, Maxie Dunn, would also chaperone them in Florida and on a later trip to Europe. While the sisters traveled fairly extensively, she recalls, “I always thought we should be home with our brothers at Christmas Time…”
During this second interview, Reynolds returns to discussion of her childhood and describes her happiness over her mother’s marriage to J. Edward Johnston in 1921. She offers an extended look at life for the family in New York, when Katharine, Johnston, Mary, Nancy, and Smith occupied a flat in the city awaiting the birth of Katharine’s child with Johnston. Reynolds oldest brother, Dick, was away at school during this time and not living with the family in New York.
Reynolds’ discussion about her relationships with her siblings provides some insight into their personalities. She thought of Dick as her “hero,” but admits, “Dick had been very much a trial to mother …” since he did not like Katharine’s marriage to Johnston. Nancy thought of Smith as her friend, even though he was younger, “…he was so intelligent, so adult in his thinking…” She recalls flying with him often, saying “I always went with him [Smith] because I said nothing could happen to him if I was with him.” She also reveals that in her teens she felt older than Mary, and that Mary was more timid: “She was afraid of animals, and I wasn’t; I loved them.” Nancy also speaks about all of her sibling’s interests in flying, and that Dick and Smith were licensed by Orville Wright.
Near the end of the interview Reynolds touches on a variety of topics, including how Ed Johnston was not accepted into the family business and the changes that occurred for him after her mother’s death. She also talks about thinking of her mother as the head of the household when her father was alive, and that Katharine handled all the discipline. One story Reynolds remembers fondly is when she was about 11 years old and realized she needed glasses. Her mother was so upset and didn’t want her to get them, because, Reynolds says, “She [Katharine] thought her children should be perfect.” After getting glasses, Reynolds recalls, “I had never realized how beautiful the world was.”
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God's Acre
Reynolda House Museum of American Art
Old Salem Museums & Gardens
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Children's Museum of Winston-Salem
Shell-shaped Gas Station
Bethabara Park
SciWorks
Home Moravian Church
Salem Lake
Katharine Smith Reynolds Johnston Exhibit at Reynolda House | North Carolina Weekend | UNC-TV
Learn the fascinating story of Katharine Smith Reynolds Johnston, matriarch of the Reynolda Estate, at a new exhibit featuring rare letters, photos and clothing.
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2018 NC Award Winner for Fine Arts: Barbara Babcock Millhouse
Barbara Babcock Millhouse made a timeless gift to the people of North Carolina by establishing Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-Salem more than 50 years ago. Since the museum’s opening in 1967, she has worked to create a world-class collection, respected by fine art collectors and scholars of American art for its rigorous quality. In founding the museum in her ancestral home, built by grandparents Katharine Smith Reynolds and tobacco magnate R.J. Reynolds in 1917, she also included the historic grounds of the estate, adding its natural areas and pristine gardens to the visitor experience. Thousands have viewed the works of American masters at the museum, including those of Gilbert Stuart, Grant Wood and Georgia O’Keeffe. Millhouse has also published several books about Reynolda House and its collections. Her vision, energy and passion have resulted in one of the most outstanding collections of American art in the country, and the preservation of one of North Carolina’s most beautiful historic homes.
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Local commercial I produced and directed for Reynolda Village in W-S, NC.
Fall Festival at Riverwest Estate | 2019
Six-acre, country estate and event destination located in the Town of Lewisville, North Carolina. Offers one-acre pond, stream, gazebo, outdoor fireplace, covered seating, rowboat.
Scenic, private and located minutes from two wineries/breweries (Westbend Vineyard and Medaloni Cellars) and 15 minutes from downtown Winston-Salem, the City of Arts & Innovation, and home of NC School of the Arts, Wake Forest University, historic Old Salem & Gardens, Reynolda House Museum of American Art and Reynolda House Village & Restaurants. Perfect for retreats, corporate meetings, weddings, birthday parties, teas & more.
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WNR Films - Cameo of William Neal Reynolds (1863 - 1951 )
Cameo footage of William Neal Reynolds taken 1941 by his nephew Richard Joshua Reynolds, Jr. Dick as part of a community service PR film titled Winston-Salem - A Balanced Community while he was the Mayor of Winston-Salem. William Neal Reynolds Uncle Will was the brother of RJ Reynolds and assumed the leadership of the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company after RJ of Reynolda Village passed away in 1918. Uncle Will and his wife Kate Gertrude Bitting Reynolds Katie B built their home, the Manor House, in 1921 at their Tanglewood Farm located on the Western edge of Forsyth County on the Yadkin River. Uncle Will was an avid horse breeder and trainer and specialized in harness racing ( trotters ). During his lifetime he created the William Neal Reynolds professor chair at NC State University and built the William Neal Reynolds coliseum at NC State also. Through Uncle Will's and Katie B.'s estates, their Manor House and Tanglewood Farm was donated to Forsyth County as a park. Uncle Will left the remainder of his estate to the Z Smith Reynolds Foundation. Katie B. Left the remainder of her estate for the creation of the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Foundation for health care in NC. Both are buried at the Salem Cemetery in Winston-Salem, NC
Winston-Salem, NC - A Balanced Community (1942 Video, 22 min. ) Produced by Mayor R.J. Reynolds, Jr.
This Video was produced by Mayor Richard J. Reynolds, Jr. in 1942 as a Public Relations video for the City of Winston-Salem, NC. It has a Chamber of Commerce style and contains vignettes of all aspects of life in Winston-Salem as it existed in 1942. (**The Content of this Video was produced 75 years ago )