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Reynolds Metals Company International Headquarters, located west of Richmond in suburban Henrico County, is a symbol of the Reynolds family, of the New South, and of the expanding role of aluminum in American life. Richard S. Reynolds and the staff of the company he founded discovered and marketed new uses for aluminum that transformed modern life. The Reynolds Metals Company International Headquarters, built 1955-1958, was the joint vision of Reynolds and the world’s premier corporate architect, Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. It is a testament to architectural excellence as well as archetypical suburban corporate headquarters. The exterior employed aluminum in what were then new and innovative ways. The building is set in a landscape of carefully controlled vistas and formal gardens in both large and intimate scales designed by noted Richmond landscape architect Charles Gillette.
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Abbreviations:
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark
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DHR has secured permanent legal protection for over 700 historic places - including 15,000 acres of battlefield lands
DHR has erected 2,532 highway markers in every county and city across Virginia
DHR has registered more than 3,317 individual resources and 613 historic districts
DHR has engaged over 450 students in 3 highway marker contests
DHR has stimulated more than $4.2 billion dollars in private investments related to historic tax credit incentives, revitalizing communities of all sizes throughout Virginia
