Winston-Salem's Historic West End - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Winston-Salem's Historic West End write by J. Eric Elliott. This book was released on 2004. Winston-Salem's Historic West End available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From its beginnings as a regional spa resort and an exclusive community of wealthy tobacco and textile families, Winston-Salem's West End has become an island of calm in the midst of a bustling Southern city of 200,000 residents. Built around one of the first electric streetcar lines in the country, the West End boasted "Millionaires' Row," where the Reynolds and Hanes families kept homes bought with manufacturing fortunes. When urban re-design and the aging of the neighborhood in the 1960s threatened the West End's streetscape, local residents and friends stepped in to preserve its beauty.
Winston-Salem's Historic West End
Winston-Salem's Historic West End - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Winston-Salem's Historic West End write by J. Eric Elliot. This book was released on 2004-10. Winston-Salem's Historic West End available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From its beginnings as a regional spa resort and an exclusive community of wealthy tobacco and textile families, Winston-Salem's West End has become an island of calm in the midst of a bustling Southern city of 200,000 residents. Built around one of the first electric streetcar lines in the country, the West End boasted "Millionaires' Row," where the Reynolds and Hanes families kept homes bought with manufacturing fortunes. When urban re-design and the aging of the neighborhood in the 1960s threatened the West End's streetscape, local residents and friends stepped in to preserve its beauty.
Winston-Salem's Historic Salem Cemetery
Winston-Salem's Historic Salem Cemetery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Winston-Salem's Historic Salem Cemetery write by Molly Grogan Rawls. This book was released on 2016. Winston-Salem's Historic Salem Cemetery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since it was chartered in 1857, Salem Cemetery reflects the personal taste and imagination of individuals who designed their family plots, vaults, and markers. A walk along the winding paths, noting names on markers and vaults, is a walk through the city's history, recalling the people who lived, labored, and loved here.
Kid Carolina
Kid Carolina - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kid Carolina write by Heidi Schnakenberg. This book was released on 2010-03-10. Kid Carolina available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Reynolds tobacco family was an American dynasty like the Rockefellers, Vanderbilts, and Astors. R.J. "Dick" Reynolds Jr. was born into privilege and decadence, but his disastrous personal life eventually destroyed almost every relationship he cherished and stole his health at a relatively young age. Dick Reynolds was dubbed "Kid Carolina" when as a teenager, he ran away from home and stowed away as part of the crew on a freighter. For the rest of his life he'd turn to the sea, instead of his friends and family, for comfort. Dick disappeared for months at a time, leading the dual life of a business mogul and troubled soul, both of which became legendary. Despite his personal demons, Dick played a pivotal role in shaping twentieth-century America through his business savvy and politics. He developed Delta and Eastern Airlines, single handedly secured FDR's third term election, and served as mayor of Winston-Salem, where his tobacco fortune was built. Yet below the gilded surface lay a turbulent life of alcoholism, infidelity, and loneliness. His chaotic existence culminated in a surprise fourth marriage and was shortly followed by a strange death, the end of a life every bit as awe-inspiring as it was disturbing.
Great Houses and Their Stories
Great Houses and Their Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Great Houses and Their Stories write by Margaret Supplee Smith. This book was released on 2022-04. Great Houses and Their Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the early twentieth century, Winston-Salem was hailed as the "town of a hundred millionaires." Booming tobacco and textile manufacturing industries converged to make Winston-Salem the largest and richest city in all of North Carolina, and major architects flocked to the area to design for its newly wealthy clientele. Ambitious commercial buildings and gracious suburban estates abounded, hosting generations of families that shaped the economic future of the country. Great Houses and Their Stories explores Winston-Salem's finest residential architecture from that era--its spacious mansions, palatial gardens, and even working farms--and delves deeply into the stories of the people who lived and worked in those historic buildings. This is a book for the preservationists, history buffs, and architecture lovers of the world and for the Winston-Salem residents who have always wondered about the abundance of green-roofed mansions still surviving in their city, even as similar pockets of early 20th century architecture throughout the country have been lost to time. Author Margaret Supplee Smith, Ph.D., and photographer Jackson Smith tell the rich histories of more than 75 great houses through beautiful new photography, historic photographs, personal narratives, and oral histories. Through diligent research of historical records and interviews with residents and local historians, they've uncovered fascinating stories about the families whose fortunes shaped neighborhoods like Buena Vista, West Highlands, and Reynolda Park. By publishing this book, Preservation North Carolina hopes to advance the preservation of Winston-Salem's rich architectural legacy, which is highly threatened by demolition and overdevelopment.
