Someone asks where you live.
You answer: ‘Reynoldstown.’
Blank stare.
‘Where is Reynoldstown?’*
This.
This is what we’re up against.
Where Is Reynoldstown?
At the corner of Kenyon and Wylie.
In 57 square feet, with grassroots dollars, as a strategic intervention.
Atlanta’s newest, smallest, coolest museum.
Museum of Reynoldstown.
Where Reynoldstown is.
912 Wylie Street:
The Isaiah P. Reynolds Building.
Named for our neighborhood’s first family.
A 19th century masterclass in brickmasonry.
Directly on the Atlanta Beltline.
Restoring the store-front glass.
Capturing the first three feet of the facade.
Creating a state-of-the-art display space.
Robust construction. Sexy lighting.
Meticulous graphics.
“In the smallest of things, lies the grandeur of the universe.
Through careful observation of the particular, we glimpse the infinite.”
RACHEL CARSON
Celebrate porch swings and peach cobbler.
Explore uncomfortable questions.
Plant a flag the size of a building.
Stake a claim to this 400-acre* treasure.
Museums are storehouses.
This community – its people, places, things – this is our permanent collection.
Museums are frames and mirrors.
As citizens of the world, we claim a universal story.
Museums are portals.
Out there are ten thousand neighborhoods, a lot like ours.
912 Wylie is our common ground.
*395.426839 acres, to be precise.
First, we raise $100k.*
Next, we build it out.
Then, we light it up.
So good, and so fast.
Growing in the cracks.
A very clear dream.
*Phase one punch list:
1/3 – glass and steel
1/3 – electric, hvac, lighting, internal structure, and demolition
1/3 – opening program, insurance, security, graphics and contingency
A five-year lease. Four shows a year.
Phase two, coming next year, will cost a fraction of phase one.*
After twenty shows and five years?
We’ll morph and pivot. As an early friend, you’ll have a front-row seat.
*Phase two punch list:
Artisan Alley, a 90-square-foot open-air gallery for handcraft
‘You are Here,’ a permanent orientation panel
historic ghost paint, restored
vintage billboards, restored
period pay phone, restored for audio content
Initial estimates are in the $25k range.
Uplift the local.
Connect to the global.
Museum of Reynoldstown
Come on in!
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FINE PRINT:
The Reynoldstown Rangers, the organization behind MoR, shape and share tools to build resilient communities. For over a year now, Rangers have been listening to and working alongside our Reynoldstown neighbors. We’ve been featured in Atlanta Magazine, the Atlanta Studies Symposium at Emory University, and are assembling the community’s most comprehensive archive. Incorporation and 501(c)(3) applications are in process. In the interim, Flux Projects is our gracious fiscal sponsor (mail donations to ‘Reynoldstown Rangers c/o Flux Projects, 400 Pryor Street SW #3346, Atlanta, GA 30302’, memo line ‘Museum of Reynoldstown’). All donations, through them, for us, are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. Please ask us, or your tax professional, for more details.