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Duke students often refer to the West Campus as "the Gothic Wonderland", a nickname referring to the Collegiate Gothic architecture of West Campus, a style chosen by the Campus's founders after campus visits to the University of Chicago, Yale, and Princeton.
West Campus is part of Duke University's campus in Durham, North Carolina. West Campus, along with East Campus , make up most of Duke's main campus. The campus follows the Collegiate Gothic architecture style, inspired by the mid-18th century Gothic Revival style, making it distinct from East Campus.
Cameron Indoor Stadium is an indoor arena located on the campus of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.The 9,314-seat facility is the primary indoor athletic venue for the Duke Blue Devils and serves as the home court for Duke men's and women's basketball and women's volleyball.
The rezoning adds Duke’s 155-acre Central Campus to the university’s custom zoning district, a widely permissive category created for Duke and N.C. Central universities about two decades ago.
In the past six days, 32 people have visited Duke Health emergency departments for heat-related issues. So far this month, WakeMed has treated 43 patients for emergency heat-related illnesses, up ...
K-ville is also a social function at Duke, as many students participate at least once. Duke has installed Wi-Fi service and Ethernet ports in the lightposts so that students can participate in tenting without falling behind in their schoolwork, although the internet is known to be very unreliable. Students also complain that the cold weather ...
The first history of Duke University traces back to its founding in 1838 [2] in Trinity, North Carolina.Much to the dislike of the Methodist preachers, under the leadership of the college's President John F. Crowell, Washington Duke made a donation to the college large enough to build a new campus in Durham, North Carolina, and move the college.
Duke's original campus (now East Campus) was rebuilt from 1925 to 1927 with Georgian-style buildings. The School of Religion and Graduate School opened in 1926. By 1930, the majority of the Gothic Revival buildings on the campus one mile (1.6 km) west were completed in order to accommodate the Undergraduate Trinity College for men as well as ...