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):
1945 Sawtooth School of Visual Art
(started in 1945 as Arts & Crafts Workshop)
2010 Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts
and HanesBrands Theatre
1927 Graylyn Estate
(Graylyn International Conference Center)
1929 R. J. Reynolds Building
(model for The Empire State Building)
1929 James G. Hanes Home
(Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art [SECCA], 1956)
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.)
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)
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