A World of Her Own Making

A few years after marrying tobacco magnate R. J. Reynolds, young Katharine Smith Reynolds (1880-1924) began to plan a new home for her family in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She envisioned the founding of a model community that would emphasize health, modern technology, mixed-crop scientific farming, education, and rural beauty. Catherine Howett's study provides welcome insight into the culture of the New South and a richly inventive period in the history of American landscape architecture.