Film Locations - Universities

Duke University

Central Campus

  • Home to student housing and meeting facilities, and Duke University offices

West Campus

Duke Chapel
  • Hub of the University; Gothic-style campus with richly detailed stonework and landscaped grounds
  • Large grass quads, magnolia trees and flowering shrubbery
  • 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
  • Other outstanding Gothic buildings include the Davison Building with crenulate polygonal towers flanking the entrance - reminiscent of Cambridge
  • Duke University Hospital's main facade resembles an English manor house with parapets and towers

East Campus

Duke Chapel
  • Old Trinity College architecture includes several buildings in the Neoclassical and Georgian Revival style with Doric entablatures and handsome tetrastyle porticos
  • Red brick dominates the buildings lining the quad, with Baldwin Auditorium as the focal point of the quad
  • Baldwin Auditorium, reminiscent of the library designed by Thomas Jefferson and of its Roman prototype, the Pantheon
  • Auditorium is a symmetrical octagonal block with a circular dome and expanded three story wings

Durham Technical Community College
1637 Lawson Ave.

Duke Chapel
  • Seven classroom buildings built in the early 1960's, surrounded by 80 acres of woodlands
  • 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

Duke Chapel
  • Constructed in 1910, the 103-acre campus features Georgian Revival-style red brick buildings in the heart of southeast Durham
  • Campus includes McLendon-McDougald Gymnasium, O'Kelly Riddick Football Stadium, NCCU Art Museum, Law School and library
  • Clyde R. Hoey Building is the centerpiece of NCCU Campus
  • 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

  • Focal point: two-story portico supported by streamlined Cronthian columns that shelter the three entrance bays