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Today the gardens include 125 acres (0.51 km) of woodlands, fields, wetlands, and a 4-acre (16,000 m) formal garden with greenhouse. Two acres of the formal gardens comprise the Greenhouse Gardens (designed 1917, 1920, 1931) which centers around a sunken garden divided into four quadrants,
237:(1880–1966) designed the 4-acre (16,000 m) formal garden for Mrs. Reynolds, starting in 1915. After the death of Mrs. Reynolds (then remarried as Mrs. Johnston) in 1924, most of the property was gradually sold or given away, including a gift of 300 acres (1.2 km) to 268:
gardens, theme gardens, specimen trees, and boxwood hedges, as well as tea-houses, fountains, and pergolas. The other half contains the Fruit, Cut Flower, and Nicer Vegetable Garden (1921), which grows
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The entire property also includes a 3/4-mile woodland trail, as well as a slightly longer perimeter trail (1.5 miles).
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greenhouse was built to serve the family and farm, and to produce flowers commercially. Landscape architect
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The gardens were originally part of a large country estate and farm (1067 acres) created by tobacco magnate
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in the late 1940s for its Winston-Salem campus. In a series of gifts from 1958 to 1962, their daughter
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performed extensive historic reconstruction to return the garden to its original design.
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The former gardener's cottage, in the southeastern corner of the gardens
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established Reynolda Gardens by donating its property to the college.
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National Park Service information on Reynolda Gardens
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Tourist attractions in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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Reynolda

Reynolda Gardens is located in North Carolina
Reynolda Village
Coordinates
36°07′31″N 80°17′04″W / 36.125348378°N 80.2845044°W / 36.125348378; -80.2845044
Mary Reynolds Babcock
Thomas W. Sears
Wake Forest University
Reynolda Village
Wake Forest University
Reynolda House
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
R. J. Reynolds
Katharine Smith Reynolds
Lord & Burnham
Thomas W. Sears
Wake Forest College
Mary Reynolds Babcock
National Park Service

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Reynolda Gardens

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