Elm Street Kicks Off Revive The Reeves House Campaign

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Phase two of the Elm Street Cultural Arts Village development is now underway with the launch of the Revive the Reeves House campaign.

The historic single-family home sits along the Noonday Creek trail, which was formerly part of Elm Street in downtown Woodstock before the trail’s development.

Plans call for the house to be built out and renovated to become Elm Street’s new home. The house is slated to include an art gallery, studios, computer lab, instructional space, event space and catering kitchen.

The work is being funded in part via a brick campaign, which allows individuals and/or groups to purchase a commemorative brick for $150.

“We really feel that this is a community effort and the brick campaign is a great way to facilitate that as well as to create a permanent marker of each contribution,“ said Ann Litrel, Elm Street board member.

Organizations and corporations can participate as well. Within a week of launching Revive the Reeves, the campaign has raised just under 10 percent, including the Rotary Club of Woodstock and the Towne Lake Optimist Club making commitments for donations towards the initiative, Elm Street said its press release.

Pledges and/or contributions for bricks can be made on the Revive the Reeves campaign website or at the Elm Street information tent at various events throughout Woodstock, such as the Farmers Market, the city’s Summer Concert Series and Friday Night Live.

Fast facts about the Reeves House:

• The Reeves House was built in 1897, the same year that Woodstock officially became a city.
• The Reeves House is part of a 4-acre site that Elm Street is developing into a multi-sector arts facility. The completed site will include the event green and outdoor stage (completed in Phase1), the Reeves Art Facility, a Woodland Walk, a community/culinary gardens (Phase II) and a new performing arts venue (Phase III).
• The four-acre site was purchased by the Cherokee County Commission in 2010. Phase I began in 2012 with Walton Communities breaking ground on the Elm Street site for the event green. Programming began in 2013, and the community stage was completed in 2014, through the sponsorship of Resurgens Orthopedics.

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Photo credits: Elm Street Arts