Graylyn Conference Center Records
The Graylyn Conference Center is a hotel and executive conference center located in Winston-Salem, N.C. Materials in this collection include a dedication program, reports, survey's, Graylyn Conference Center flier, and booklets regarding the estate's history and building.
Biographical and Historical Note
The Graylyn Conference Center was built between 1927 and 1932 by Bowman Gray, Sr., R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company board chairman, and Nathalie Lyons Gray, as a country estate. It is located on a 55-acre property and is now owned by WFU, having been donated to the University in 1972 by Gordan Gray. Today it is the Graylyn Estate Hotel and Conference Center, a renovated historic hotel with conference spaces.
Collection Overview
These records document the Graylyn Conference Center and its grounds. Materials in this collection include a dedication program, a report booklet, a Graylyn Conference study market survey, an event flier, and "The Story of Graylyn" and "The Persian Card Room" booklets.
Administrative Information
- Publication Information
- Processed by Chloe Patz, 2023 October
- Access Restrictions
- Collection is open for all researchers.
- Copyright Notice
- The nature of the WFU Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The Archives and Special Collections of ZSR Library claims only physical ownership of most materials. The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching and private study, pursuant to the U.S. Copyright Law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.
- Preferred Citation
- Graylyn Conference Center Records (RG39.5), Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.