Reynolda House

I only have a few photos from Reynolda House...apparently you're not supposed to take pictures inside, as I found out when one of the staff about went balistic when I pulled a camera out to take a picture of a beautiful fireplace. Even though there were no signs (that I saw, anyway), and other people had their cameras out, I was the lucky one who got to find out the hard way. Anyway, I got a couple of shots from outside, though, so at least there's something to show! (To learn more about Reynolda House & the Reynolda House Museum of American Art, click here: Reynolda House History.)

This is just one small section of the house...it is absolutely huge! The house was built in 1917 by Katharine Smith Reynolds and her husband Richard Joshua Reynolds, who was the founder of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in Winston Salem, NC. The house includes a full-sized indoor pool, a bowling alley, indoor shooting lanes, a billiards room, a night-club style bar, a ping-pong room, squash courts, formal bedrooms, dining rooms, sunrooms, a library full of books, offices, etc. There are lavish furnishings throughout, including tons of artwork. Not to mention over 1,000 acres of land that include the gardens and farm buildings. (The farm buildings, including dairy barns, cattle barns, stables, a school, a post office, smokehouses, blacksmith cottage, and central heating building, have now been turned into Reynolda Village Shops.) The house itself now houses the Reynolda House Museum of American Art.

One of the many fountains and pools to be found on the land...this one is right outside the house, facing the windows, where it could be viewed easily from indoors.

Close up of the statue in the above picture...


Close up of one of the two frogs on the above-shown pool...