Reynolda Village is a shopping and business complex in

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, created from the servant and agricultural buildings of

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, the former

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estate. The village, which covers around , was planned as a working model farm, designed by

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and Willard C. Northup in the early 20th century. It is now part of

Reynolda Historic District Reynolda Historic District is a national historic district located on Reynolda Rd. in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It includes work by Charles Barton Keen and by landscape architect Thomas Warren Sears. The listing includes 22 contribut ...

, with twenty-two of its buildings, and one other contributing structure, now listed on the

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. Each building is constructed of Ludowici-Celadon tile, cedar shingles painted green or asbestos shingles. The white exterior walls are mostly

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on metal

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, with a few having horizontal clapboard siding. The more substantial structures were built from

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collected from the estate. The cattle shed, corn crib and chicken house were reconstructed in 1978 and 1979. At present, the village is owned and operated by nearby Wake Forest University (to which it was deeded in 1965), as is the adjacent

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. Reynolda Church stands directly across Reynolda Road from the village's main entrance. (The village can also be accessed, via a one-way road, from the entrance to Reynolda House, further south on Reynolda Road.)

Constituent buildings

Buildings which once served as dairy barns, cattle sheds and servants' stores and cottages have now been converted into shops, restaurants and office spaces. A selection of these thirty or so buildings include: Each cottage had its own laundry yard and garden, enclosed by

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and gates. Four of the resident cottages were still used as such in the 1980 assessment of the village for its nomination to the

. The former farmhouse was used as a men's boarding house until the outbreak of

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. File:Reynolda Village 3.jpg, Plumber's Cottage File:Blacksmith's Cottage at Reynolds for R.J. Reynolds - DPLA - c81bfad4206a5105cf85ec1129dea525.jpg, Architectural designs for the front, end and rear elevation of the blacksmith's cottage File:Blacksmith's Cottage at Reynolds for R.J. Reynolds - DPLA - 747bb1cb576d2b278f88c143ac8f1924.jpg, The floor plan of the basement and first floor of the blacksmith's cottage

References

{{Reflist Buildings and structures in Winston-Salem, North Carolina Wake Forest University