Duke West Campus

New York sculptor Charles Keck created the James Buchanan Duke Statue in 1935. The statue was unveiled on June 3, 1935 as part of commencement. Mary Duke Biddle, grandniece of James Buchanan Duke, removed the veil on the statue before a group of several thousand with President William Few presiding over the ceremony. Cast in bronze, the statue...

1961 (Duke Yearlook) Caption from Duke Yearlook: " Joseph G. Barnes (r), artist-sculptor, explains a detail of the gates to Richard H. Fillmore, horticulturalist of the Gardens staff. William Leong (not shown), the Gardens' master planner, assisted with the design, which is abstracted from the arches and stained glass windows of the Duke Chapel."...

05.31.14 Per the Duke Gardens website: The Dawn Redwood has a unique history. In 1941, a Japanese paleobotanist named Dr. Shigeru Miki was studying fossils of ancient sequoias and bald cypresses found in Japan. He realized that some of the fossils had been incorrectly identified. Typically the sequoias and bald cypress have alternate leaves, while...

The Anne Roney Fountain originally was situated in a prominent position directly in front of the Old Main / Washington Duke Building. Roney was the sister of Artelia Roney, Washington Duke's second wife. Anne helped Duke raise his children after Artelia died, and was housekeeper at Fairview, his house on the southeast corner of South Duke St. and West Main St..