Winston-Salem’s
List of Assets by Category
Major Medical Centers
1891 Novant Health (originally Twin City Hospital): https://www.novanthealth.org
1902 Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center: https://www.wakehealth.edu
Major Medical Centers
Sports Organizations
1938 Bowman Gray Stadium ![]()
1945 Winston-Salem Dash ![]()
(Class A Advanced Baseball Team, FarmTeam for Chicago White Sox)
1951 Winston-Salem Fairgrounds and Annex ![]()
1968 BB&T Field ![]()
1989 Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum ![]()
(Wake Forest University)
2010 BB&T Ballpark ![]()
2011 Wake Forest Tennis Center ![]()
(Home of the Winston-Salem Open)
2017 National Cycling Center ![]()
Outdoor Venues
Philanthropic Foundations
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
Cultural, Arts & Historic Treasures
1753 Bethabara Historical Park ![]()
1880 Horne Creek Living Historical Farm ![]()
1911 Shamrock Mills Building
(first home of Hanes Hosiery):
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1945 Sawtooth School of Visual Art
(started in 1945 as Arts & Crafts Workshop)
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2010 Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts
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and HanesBrands Theatre
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1927 Graylyn Estate
(Graylyn International Conference Center)
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1929 R. J. Reynolds Building
(model for The Empire State Building)
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1929 James G. Hanes Home
(Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art [SECCA], 1956)
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1949 Arts Council of Winston-Salem/Forsyth County
(America’s first arts council; led the movement nationally from Winston-Salem)
1950 Old Salem Museum & Gardens ![]()
1956 Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) ![]()
1963 Anthropology Museum of Wake Forest University ![]()
(formerly Museum of Man)
1965 Museum of Early Southern Decorative Art (MESDA) ![]()
1967 Reynolda House Museum of American Art ![]()
1972 Winston-Salem Delta Fine Arts, Inc. ![]()
1979 N. C. Black Repertory Company
(first professional Black theatre company in N. C.)
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1983 Roger L. Stevens Center for the Performing Arts of UNCSA ![]()
1984 Graylyn International Conference Center ![]()
1989 National Black Theatre Festival ![]()
1990 Diggs Gallery, Winston-Salem State University ![]()
1992 “Festival of Lights” at Tanglewood Park ![]()
2001 Charlotte and Philip Hanes Gallery ![]()
2005 Winston Cup Museum & Event Center ![]()
2011 Peppercorn Children’s Theatre (of Kaleideum) ![]()
2012 Muse Winston-Salem ![]()
(Originally the New Winston Museum)
2015 Center for Design Innovation ![]()
2016 Kaleideum
(formerly SciWorks and Nature Science Center, 1964; Children’s Museum, 2004)
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Community Organizations
Arts Council of Winston-Salem/Forsyth County ![]()
Housing Authority of Winston-Salem ![]()
Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts ![]()
Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina ![]()
The Millennium Fund
United Way of Winston-Salem/Forsyth County ![]()
Wake Forest University Center for Entrepreneurship ![]()
Higher Education Institutions
1772 Salem Academy & College ![]()
(oldest school for women and girls in America)
1834 Wake Forest University ![]()
(ranked among top national universities)
1892 Winston-Salem State University ![]()
(the 2020 top-ranked HBCU in America)
1945 Carolina University ![]()
(enrolls students from more than 100 countries)
1960 Forsyth Technical Community College ![]()
(one of the largest in North Carolina)
1963 University of North Carolina School of the Arts ![]()
(America’s first public arts conservatory)
Archives
Archives Digital Collection of UNCSA ![]()
Moving Images Archives of UNCSA ![]()
Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts Archives (MESDA) ![]()
N.C. Room of the Forsyth County Library ![]()
Old Salem Museum & Gardens Archives ![]()
Salem Academy and College Archives ![]()
The Wachovia Historical Society ![]()
Festivals & Events
Bookmarks Festival of Books and Authors ![]()
Hispanic League’s Annual Fiesta ![]()
National Black Theatre Festival ![]()
National Sports Media Association Annual Conference ![]()
North Carolina Wine Festival at Tanglewood Park ![]()
OUT at the Movies International LGBTQ Film Festival ![]()
RiverRun International Film Festival ![]()