Winston-Salem
— a town built twice, on tobacco and brick.
Not only on a wall.
“A Piedmont city north of Charlotte, joined in 1913 from the old Moravian town of Salem and the tobacco town of Winston. Old Salem still keeps its 18th-century streets, with brick footways, single-pile houses, and the working bakery on Main Street. The Reynolds Building, finished in 1929, was the prototype the Empire State Building was modelled on a year later.
Winston-Salem, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Winston-Salem sits in the rolling Piedmont of north-central North Carolina, about 130 kilometres northeast of Charlotte and southwest of the Blue Ridge. The modern city was formed in 1913 by the merger of Salem, a Moravian congregation town founded in 1766, and Winston, a tobacco-and-textile town established in 1849 as the Forsyth County seat. Today the city holds roughly 250,000 residents and anchors Forsyth County. Wake Forest University, relocated from the town of Wake Forest in 1956, sits on the northwest side of the city.
The Moravian builders of Salem worked in a German hall-house tradition, with steep tile roofs and brick laid in Flemish bond. Roughly 100 of the original 18th- and 19th-century buildings still stand in Old Salem, the largest collection of Moravian architecture in the country. The Reynolds Building, completed in 1929 and rising to 96 metres on West Fourth Street, was the prototype for the Empire State Building that opened two years later in New York; both share the same setback massing and limestone-and-granite skin.
Old Salem Museums and Gardens runs as a living-history district at the south end of downtown, with the working Winkler Bakery on Main Street and the Single Brothers' House open for tours. The Reynolda House Museum of American Art, the 1917 R.J. Reynolds estate, sits near the Wake Forest campus and holds a collection that runs from John Singleton Copley to Georgia O'Keeffe. Most sites open year-round; spring and autumn are the easiest seasons in the Piedmont.