REYNOLDA HOUSE, WAKE FOREST HOLD PUBLIC MEETING ABOUT HISTORIC REYNOLDA LANDSCAPE

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Reynolda House, Wake Forest Hold Public Meeting About Historic Reynolda Landscape

Thursday, January 21, 2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Sarah R. Smith
336.758.5524
smithsr@reynoldahouse.org

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (January 21, 2010)—Reynolda House Museum of American Art and Wake Forest University invite the public to a meeting to announce the launch of the Reynolda Historic District Cultural Landscape Report. The meeting will take place Tuesday, Jan. 26 at 5:30 p.m. at Reynolda House, located at 2250 Reynolda Road.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, the 178 acres that comprise the Reynolda Historic District include Reynolda House, Reynolda Gardens of Wake Forest University, Historic Reynolda Village, and areas of the Wake Forest University campus. The report will document the historic landscape and make recommendations for preservation.

The meeting will be led by The Jaeger Company, a landscape architecture firm specializing in historic preservation and conducting the Reynolda Historic District Cultural Landscape Report. Another meeting for students, faculty, staff, and neighbors of Wake Forest's Reynolda Campus will be held Feb. 25 at 5:30 p.m. in Pugh Auditorium.

Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of the nation's premier American art museums, with masterpieces by Mary Cassatt, Frederic Church, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe and Gilbert Stuart among its permanent collection. Affiliated with Wake Forest University, Reynolda House features traveling and original exhibitions, concerts, lectures, classes, film screenings and other events. The museum is located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in the historic 1917 estate of Katharine Smith Reynolds and her husband, Richard Joshua Reynolds, founder of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Reynolda House and adjacent Reynolda Gardens and Reynolda Village feature a spectacular public garden, dining, shopping and walking trails. For more information, please visit reynoldahouse.org or call 336.758.5150.

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