1. Reynolds Family & Reynolda House

2. R. J. Reynolds
1875 – moved to Winston from Va. to begin tobacco trade (chose Winston b/c it had a rail hub)
1888 – founded R. J. Reynolds Tobacco
1907 – introduced Prince Albert (in a can) smoking tobacco
1913 – introduced Camel brand – the first packaged cigarette

3. On July 30, 1918, The Winston Salem Journal wrote: “The city’s civic, religious, and social institutions advanced with the growth of the tobacco company. The triumph of Prince Albert and Camel cigarettes caused factories to spring up all over the city, and attracted thousands of new people. By the time of his death in 1918, R.J. Reynolds had brought prosperity to an entire region of North Carolina” (Reynolda House Museum of Art Exhibits).

4. 1905 – Katherine Smith married R. J. Reynolds
1906 – bought over 1000 acres of “desolate” land to build Reynolda (their summer home)
1917 – Reynolda Manor completed
1965 – opened to the public

5. The Manor a village where Reynolds workers could live a post office,
schools,
a chapel,
a blacksmith shop
9-hole golf course
a greenhouse

6. Katherine & the Farm Wanted a model farm
Encouraged people to grow own food
After a public issue over clean milk, started Reynolda Dairy

7. Katherine & business
Encouraged RJR to shorten employees work hours and provide a nursery

8. Lasting Influence of RJR
He also granted endowments to
Guilford College,
the Oxford Orphan Asylum, and
the Baptist Orphanage, in addition to
many other charities and churches in the Winston-Salem community.
He became the first southern man to establish a hospital serving African-Americans in the South, the Slater Hospital.[
He started a savings and loan,
served on the town board of Winston-Salem, and
began a YMCA and
an opera house
Reynolds donated money to the establishment of the Slater Industrial School, which would later become Winston-Salem State University

9. Lasting Influence of Katherine
contributed land and funds to establish The Richard J. Reynolds High School and the R. J. Reynolds Memorial Auditorium

10. The Children
Richard Joshua Reynolds, Jr. (April 4, December 14, 1964) who married
Elizabeth McCaw "Blitz" Dillard ( Dec. 1961),
Richard Joshua "Josh" Reynolds III,
John Dillard Reynolds,
Zachary Taylor Reynolds, and
William Neal Reynolds II.
Marianne O'Brien (d. 1985),
Michael Randolph Reynolds (July 13, November 3, 2004) and
Patrick Reynolds, who publicly took a stand as a tobaccofree advocate (b. December 2, ).
Muriel Maud Marston Laurence Greenough (December 28, 1915 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada ), and
Annemarie Schmitt (b ) RJ Jr and Blitz had four sons,
two days after RJ Jr died, Irene Sabine Reynolds (b. December 16, )
Mary Katherine Reynolds (August 8, July 17, 1953) who married
Charles Henry Babcock (September 22, December 13, 1967)
Nancy Susan Reynolds (February 5, January 1985) who married
Henry Walker Bagley (August 6, 1900 in Atlanta, Georgia - April 19, 1983) and
Jane Bagley Lehman,
Susan Bagley Bloom, and
Anne Bagley Grant, and
one son, Smith Bagley, cell phone business executive and social activist.
Gilbert Verney.
Zachary Smith Reynolds (November 5, July 6, 1932) who married
Anne Ludlow Cannon (August 31, June 21, 1961and
Libby Holman on Sunday November 29, 1931.

11. Lasting Influence of Children
Mary Reynolds Babcock
donated Reynolda House to be used as an art museum
contributed to the William Neal Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh, in honor of her uncle
gave $525,000 for a dormitory at Salem College in Winston-Salem
Created the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation to honor her brother (suspicious death at age 20)
Donated land to start a country club
Donated land to Wake Forest University
With sister Susan, opened Smith Reynolds Airport

12. Nancy Susan Reynolds Bagley Verney
Dick
Donated land for Reynolds Park
Nancy Susan Reynolds Bagley Verney
deeded Virginia Tech 710 acres of Rock Spring Plantation.
In 1980, she deeded them another 7 acres where Reynolds' childhood home and a continuing education center stand
created an endowment of $1.7 million to provide cultural programming to the surrounding community, to run a forestry research center on the site, and to fund a scholarship program for Patrick County high school students

13. RJR’s nephew, Richard S. Reynolds, Sr.,
In 1919, founded the U.S. Foil Company in Louisville, Kentucky, supplying tin-lead wrappers to cigarette and candy companies.
In 1924, he bought the maker of Eskimo Pies (which were foil-wrapped) and
four years later he purchased Robertshaw Thermostat, Fulton Sylphon, and part of Beechnut Foil, adding the companies to U.S. Foil to form Reynolds Metals.
After realizing the limitations of the tin and lead used in his company's products, in 1926 he added aluminum to the line. The company began using aluminum foil as a packaging material in 1926, and
in 1947 they introduced Reynolds Wrap. Sold worldwide, it transformed food storage.
Reynolds Metals was the second-largest aluminum company in the United States and the third-largest in the world.

14. In addition to the house, 28 of the original thirty buildings remain.
To the west lie the restored formal gardens, noted for their Japanese cryptomeria and weeping cherry trees.
The 16-acre lake behind the house ("Lake Katharine") has reverted to wetlands, which provide a home for a variety of wildlife.
Many of the buildings in the village are now occupied by boutiques, shops, and restaurants.
Servants button at dinner table, Dumbwaiter

15. Reynolds Family Tree