In 1937, the Babcocks added the finishing touch to their basement—an indoor swimming pool complete with submerged lighting, heated water, air conditioning, porthole windows suggestive of luxury ocean liners, and towering iron cages for tropical macaws. Mary turned to the well-established and versatile Manhattan architecture firm of Johnson & Porter, which had a reputation for new apartment buildings on the Upper East Side of New York. At Reynolda, the firm’s challenge was more modest: designing a guest house, swimming pool, and basement recreation areas in harmony with the bungalow’s original appearance.

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About Reynolda:
Reynolda, in Winston-Salem, NC, is a 53-year-old museum at the center of Reynolda’s 170 acres. Reynolda House Museum of American Art presents a renowned art collection in a historic and incomparable setting: the original 1917 interiors of Katharine and R.J. Reynolds’s historic home. Spanning 250 years, the collection is an uncompromisingly selective one, a chronology of American art, with each artist represented by one work of major significance. The Reynolda experience includes a free app called Reynolda Revealed; touring exhibitions in the museum’s Mary and Charlie Babcock Wing; formal gardens, conservatory, and walking trails of Reynolda Gardens; and more than 25 of the estate’s original buildings repurposed as shops and restaurants in Reynolda Village.

Reynolda House, located at 2250 Reynolda Rd., is open to visitors Tuesday-Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Sunday from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Reynolda Gardens is open from dawn to dusk daily free of charge.

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