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The University Library, originally built as lecture rooms by Sir Arthur Blomfield in 1882, now houses the Durham University Museum of Archaeology and the Durham Light Infantry gallery. [75] The George Pace Building houses the Barker Research Library, containing the university archives and special collections, [ 75 ] as well as the Palace Green ...
It is the university's largest library and houses its main stacks, special collections, rare books and manuscripts, and many departmental subject libraries. The library was originally built in 1912, and was renovated in 1951, 1977, and 2009. It is named in honor of the university's fifth president, William Oxley Thompson.
The Teaching and Learning Centre was built on a former sports field owned by the university between Vincent Harris's neoclassical St Mary's College and the Edwardian Arts and Crafts-style Bow School, directly opposite Daniel Liebeskind's deconstructivist Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics, on the university's Lower Mountjoy campus on the other side of South Road.
Its initial collection consisted of over 5,000 books collected by Bishop Cosin, including his own collection previously stored at Peterhouse. These books included a copy of William Shakespeare 's First Folio , [ 4 ] which Cosin had probably bought new in 1623 and is the only copy to have remained in the same personal collection since it was ...
Bennett Place is a former farm and homestead in Durham, North Carolina, which was the site of the last surrender of a major Confederate army in the American Civil War, when Joseph E. Johnston surrendered to William T. Sherman. The first meeting (April 17, 1865) saw Sherman agreeing to certain political demands by the Confederates, which were ...
The mall is home to many firsts for the area, including North Carolina's first Nordstrom and Apple Store. Other stores that were new to the Research Triangle area included Aveda, California Pizza Kitchen, Hollister Co., and Pottery Barn Kids. [4] The Streets at Southpoint was the first mall to come to the Durham area in nearly three decades ...
University College, the oldest of the 17 Durham Colleges. Durham operates a collegiate structure similar to that of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, in that all colleges at Durham, being constituent colleges of a "recognised body", are "listed bodies" [1] in the Education (Listed Bodies) (England) Order 2013 made under the Education Reform Act 1988.