Film Locations - Universities
Duke University
Central Campus
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Home to student housing and meeting facilities, and Duke University
offices
West Campus
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Hub of the University; Gothic-style campus with richly detailed
stonework and landscaped grounds
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Large grass quads, magnolia trees and flowering shrubbery
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Centerpiece of Duke West Campus is the 1,700 seat Duke
Chapel standing 210 feet tall in *Neo-Gothic Revival style,
accentuated by buttressing, pinnacles and spires of sand stone
decoration in contrast to the gold blue and green hues of the quarry
granite
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Other outstanding Gothic buildings include the Davison Building with
crenulate polygonal towers flanking the entrance - reminiscent of
Cambridge
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Duke University Hospital's main facade resembles an English manor
house with parapets and towers
East Campus
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Old Trinity College architecture includes several buildings in the
Neoclassical and Georgian Revival style with Doric entablatures and
handsome tetrastyle porticos
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Red brick dominates the buildings lining the quad, with Baldwin
Auditorium as the focal point of the quad
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Baldwin Auditorium, reminiscent of the library designed by Thomas
Jefferson and of its Roman prototype, the Pantheon
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Auditorium is a symmetrical octagonal block with a circular dome and
expanded three story wings
Durham Technical Community College
1637 Lawson Ave.
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Seven classroom buildings built in the early 1960's, surrounded by 80
acres of woodlands
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A separate Northern Durham Center is located on Snowhill Road, which
includes state-of-the-art labs, a library and classrooms
NC Central University
1801 Fayetteville St
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Constructed in 1910, the 103-acre campus features Georgian
Revival-style red brick buildings in the heart of southeast Durham
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Campus includes McLendon-McDougald Gymnasium, O'Kelly Riddick Football
Stadium, NCCU Art Museum, Law School and library
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Clyde R. Hoey Building is the centerpiece of NCCU Campus
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Elegant Georgian Revival style of cut limestone is used on the first
floor to simulate a raised basement: decoration includes contrasting
soft red brick, quoins, lintels and upper story windows
B.N. Duke Auditorium
NCCU Campus
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Focal point: two-story portico supported by streamlined Cronthian
columns that shelter the three entrance bays
