For many arts-loving Duke students, the Mary Duke Biddle Music Building is a familiar spot. Tucked behind the East Campus dorms, next to Baldwin Auditorium, this building has become a home for music ...

The event celebrated 50 years of ‘glorious human activity — the learning, the expression, the joy, the community’ Alec Damian Gallimore, the esteemed aerospace engineer and Duke University provost, ...

In late August, visual artist Natalie Robinson took a short break from the mural she was creating in the lobby of Duke University’s Mary Biddle Duke Music Building. Just days from completion, Robinson ...

This story was updated Friday, July 14, 2023, to correct the number of homes and townhouses planned for the larger Pinecrest development. An old home on the Mary Duke Biddle estate is scheduled to go ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, heiress to a vast Gilded Age fortune built on tobacco and member of the family that endowed Duke University, has died. She was 91. Her daughter, ...

The trustees of the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation of Durham, North Carolina have announced recently they are honoring 1973 Ephrata High School graduate Douglas C. Zinn, with a scholarship fund at Duke ...

Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, the great-niece of Duke University's founding benefactor, James Buchanan Duke, died Wednesday at the age of 91, according to the the university. Funeral services will be ...

If historic home tours are part of your pre-Halloween lead-up, look no further than Preservation Durham’s annual historic home tour, which this year centers on the storybook cottages and English ...

The homes at 1415 Bivins St., pictured in July 2023, belonging to Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans will be demolished to make way for four single-family homes. It’s in Durham’s century-old Forest Hills ...