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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

In this story, I’ll be rating four of the major arts and performance venues at Duke using four criteria: location, function, architecture and accessibility. Location is everything about where and what ...

This story was corrected at 8:55 a.m. Dec. 19, 2018. New townhouses will be built a short distance from downtown Durham, some costing close to $1 million. A Duke family estate will be turned into ...

Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, heiress to a vast Gilded Age fortune built on tobacco and a member of the family that endowed Duke University, died Wednesday in Durham, N.C. She was 91. She was the ...