Margaret Supplee Smith, Harold W. Tribble Professor Emerita at Wake Forest University, will discuss the architect who designed the Reynolda estate and homes for tobacco and textile magnates in Greensboro, Charlotte, Durham, Concord, and Roaring Gap. Hear how Keen's traditional designs legitimized the ambitions and aspirations of the New South elite while softening the impact of their new wealth by transplanting the unpretentious and restrained traditions of the domestic architecture of the Main Line of Philadelphia.

Sponsored by Ludowici Roof Tile on behalf of the Institute for Classical Architecture and Art.