Anniversaries are valuable, because they signify more than just the passing of time.
In this shining, spacious, aluminum-intensive building, Reynolds Metals consolidated all of its executive departments, including the general sales and advertising staffs. In fact, on the Friday before Memorial Day of 1958, the sales and advertising operations in Louisville formed a huge convoy of moving vans and cars and marched en masse to Richmond. By the following Tuesday, the staff had moved in and the building was open for business. The company formally opened its headquarters with a program of tours, open houses and receptions. The big debut made quite a splash in the Richmond social scene, and in the architectural world as well.