Winston-Salem Audio Walking Tour

Highlights

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  Reynolds Building

  Art Deco lines climb 314 feet at the Reynolds Building, 51 East 4th Street in Winston-Salem. Feel the weight of its history: completed in 1929 at a cost of $2.7 million (about $36.3 million in 2016 dollars), it rises 21 floors and contains 313,996 square feet (29,171.2 m2) of space.

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  Old Salem

  Notice Old Salem, the historic district of Winston-Salem first settled by the Moravian community in 1766. Here a living-history museum interprets the restored Moravian community; the nonprofit organization that began this work took shape in 1950, though some private residents had restored buildings earlier.

• Salem College

  Women have studied at Salem College, the private liberal arts college in Winston-Salem rooted in the Moravian community of Salem, since 1772. On April 22, 1772 the “Little Girls’ School” was founded, and that origin makes this institution the oldest female educational establishment that is still a women’s college and the oldest women’s college in the United States.

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  100 North Main Street

  Locals call 100 North Main Street the Winston Weiner, Phallus Palace, or simply The Penis Building, though its formal names are Wells Fargo Center and, originally, Wachovia Center. Rising 460 feet (140 m) with 34 floors, this tower served as the corporate headquarters of Wachovia bank from 1995, the year of the tower's erection, to 2001, when the corporation merged with First Union and moved its headquarters to Charlotte, North Carolina.

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  Richard J. Reynolds High School

  Old Gold and Black are the colors of Richard J. Reynolds High School, now a magnet school for the visual and performing arts. This public high school in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools was named for R. J. Reynolds, founder of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, and opened here in 1923.

All 32 stops

• Old Salem (Old Salem)

  Notice Old Salem, the historic district of Winston-Salem first settled by the Moravian community in 1766.

• Salem Square (Old Salem)

  Grass fills Salem Square, the public green at the heart of Old Salem, North Carolina.

• Home Moravian Church (Old Salem)

  Home Moravian Church has gathered its congregation in Old Salem since 1771.

• Single Brothers' House (Old Salem)

  Unmarried Moravian men once lived here in the Single Brothers' House, at 600 South Main Street on the southwest corner of Academy Street.

• C. Winkler Bakery (Old Salem)

  Christian Winkler took over the ovens on South Main Street in 1807, in a bakery working since 1799.

• Salem Tavern (Old Salem Historic District)

  Salem Tavern has held its ground at 800 South Main Street in the Old Salem Historic District of Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina.

• Salem Town Hall (Winston-Salem)

  Willard C. Northup designed Salem Town Hall in 1912.

• Salem Moravian God's Acre (Old Salem)

  God's Acre Cemetery, also called Salem Moravian God's Acre and Salem Moravian Graveyard, is the Moravian burial ground in Old Salem, North Carolina.

• Salem Academy (Old Salem)

  Salem Academy, the boarding and day school for high school girls, shares its campus with Salem College near historic Old Salem in Winston-Salem.

• Salem College (Salem)

  Women have studied at Salem College, the private liberal arts college in Winston-Salem rooted in the Moravian community of Salem, since 1772.

• Zevely House (West End Historic District)

  Brick walls two stories high mark the Zevely House, a three-bay by two-bay dwelling in Winston-Salem.

• Wake Forest Innovation Quarter (downtown Winston-Salem)

  Across 330 acres of downtown Winston-Salem spreads the Innovation Quarter, formerly Wake Forest Innovation Quarter, an innovation district for biomedical science, information technology, digital media…

• New Winston Museum (Winston-Salem)

  At 418 N. Marshall Street, Ste.

• S. J. Nissen Building (Winston-Salem Tobacco Historic District)

  Two crenellated towers mark the S. J. Nissen Building, a historic factory in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina.

• Nissen Building (Winston-Salem)

  Buff brick sheathes the Nissen Building's 18 stories, completed in 1927 at 283 feet.

• 8 West Third Street (Winston-Salem)

  Nine stories rise at 8 West Third Street, the Winston-Salem skyscraper also known as the Wachovia Bank and Trust Company Building.

• Reynolds Building (Downtown Winston-Salem)

  Art Deco lines climb 314 feet at the Reynolds Building, 51 East 4th Street in Winston-Salem.

• BB&T Financial Center (Winston-Salem)

  Green glass and steel sheathe the BB&T Financial Center at 200 West 2nd Street, 340 feet and 21 floors of postmodern Winston-Salem.

• Winston Tower (Winston-Salem)

  Winston Tower topped out at 29 floors in 1966.

• 100 North Main Street (Winston-Salem)

  Locals call 100 North Main Street the Winston Weiner, Phallus Palace, or simply The Penis Building, though its formal names are Wells Fargo Center and…

• RJR Plaza Building (Winston-Salem)

  Modernism defines the 16-story RJR Plaza Building, also called the Reynolds American Plaza Building.

• R. J. Reynolds Memorial Auditorium (Silver Hill)

  Charles Barton Keen designed the R. J. Reynolds Memorial Auditorium.

• Richard J. Reynolds High School (Silver Hill)

  Old Gold and Black are the colors of Richard J. Reynolds High School, now a magnet school for the visual and performing arts.

• Stevens Center (downtown Winston-Salem)

  Downtown Winston-Salem's main performance venue is the Roger L. Stevens Center, owned and operated by the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

• Forsyth County Courthouse (Winston-Salem)

  Limestone clads the Forsyth County Courthouse here in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County.

• Winston-Salem City Hall (Winston-Salem)

  Northup and O'Brien designed Winston-Salem City Hall, the Renaissance Revival civic building in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina.

• Sosnik-Morris-Early Commercial Block (Winston-Salem)

  Thalhimer's is what many called the Sosnik-Morris-Early Commercial Block, a pair of 1929 commercial buildings in Winston-Salem.

• Gilmer Building (Winston-Salem)

  Polychromed terra cotta enlivens the Gilmer Building in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina.

• Pepper Building (Winston-Salem)

  Lions' heads watch from the Pepper Building's terra cotta.

• Kaleideum (downtown Winston-Salem)

  In July 2016 the Children's Museum of Winston-Salem and SciWorks merged to become Kaleideum, the museum in front of you.

• St. Philip's Moravian Church (Old Salem)

  St. Philips Moravian Church rose in brick here in 1861.

• Goler Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (Winston-Salem)

  Old Goler is the local name for Goler Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church at 630 Patterson Avenue in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina.

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