James S. Lee Biology Building

35.974113, -78.900845

Durham
NC
Year built
1956
Architectural style
Construction type
National Register
Neighborhood
Building Type
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1956 Biology building, 05.24.11

BuiltĀ·in 1956, this Georgian Revival style building is thoroughly compatible with the older campus buildings due to its rectangluar three-story with raised basement, hip-roofed form and English bond brick walls. Variations include darker brick for the quoins, water table, and string course,above the first-floor windows. Cast limestone appears only at the entrances: those at the ends of the building have surrounds with Tuscan half-columns while the main entrance features a convex one-story portico supported by four Tuscan columns.

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Every time I go by this building, it helps me remember my family's proud legacy which includes the man this building is named after, My Grandfather, his wife who was a major librarian who created the Richard B. Harrison Library in Raleigh, and of course my Mom and Dad, Valeria Lynch Lee and James S. Lee, Jr., and of course I hope it is continuing through to me and my brother and even beyond to my nephews, Julius and Langston...

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