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Construction of Shangri La took place from 1936 to 1938, [1] [2] after Doris Duke's 1935 honeymoon which took her through the Islamic world. For nearly 60 years, Duke commissioned and collected artworks for the space, eventually forming a collection of over 4,000 objects. [3] The structure was designed by Marion Sims Wyeth.
Duke befriended Sharon Tate, her Benedict Canyon neighbor. [5] Eventually, she settled on a pattern where she would rotate her residence during the year, staying at Duke Farms in New Jersey and Rough Point in Newport, R.I. during the summer, flying to Falcon Lair on her birthday, November 22 and spending the winter months at Shangri La in ...
Duke was a hands-on homeowner, even climbing a three-story scaffolding to clean tile murals in the courtyard of Shangri La, [34] and working side-by-side with her gardeners at Duke Farms. Three of Duke's residences are currently managed by subsidiaries of the Doris Duke Foundation and allow limited public access.
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Shangri La (Doris Duke), a mansion built by Doris Duke outside Honolulu, Hawaii Shangri-La (house), a Denver, Colorado, mansion built by Harry E. Huffman Hotel Shangri-La, a hotel in Santa Monica, California
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Duke Farms is a center of the Doris Duke Foundation. A decision was made to renovate the estate as "a model of environmental stewardship in the 21st Century and (to) inspire visitors to become informed stewards of the land." [10] While reorganizing the estate, little was accessible to the public.
The Duke bursar’s website lists the cost of undergraduate tuition for the 2023-2024 school year as $31,725 per semester, for a total of almost $63,500 for the year.