James Buchanan Duke's relationship with architect
Horace Trumbauer began in 1912, when Duke commissioned the "costliest home" on
New York City's Fifth Avenue, according to
The New York Times. In 1924, Trumbauer was commissioned to build a second campus for
Duke University. In 1925,
Julian Abele, the first
African-American graduate of the
University of Pennsylvania School of Architecture the first four housing quadrangles (now Craven, Crowell, Few, and, Kilgo), the library (now
Perkins Library), Student Union (now the Richard H. Brodhead Center), and departmental buildings. The original West Campus opened all at once in 1938, to serve as the expanded home for Duke's
Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, at the time an all-the male undergraduate college. By 1928,
Cameron Indoor Stadium for
Duke men's basketball and
Wallace Wade Stadium for
Duke football had opened. Both stadiums have been renovated in recent years, and renovations were completed by 2017. In 1934 the
J. Deryl Hart House, named after university president
Julian Deryl Hart, was completed. The house serves as the official residence for Duke's presidents. Since this time, most of Duke's dormitories have been retrofitted to include common rooms. In 1968, the
Paul M. Gross Hall opened to serve as the home for the Chemistry department. After additional space for the department was completed, the university remodeled the building in 2015 to reconfigure the building to serve as a
maker space and the headquarters for Duke's Social Science Research Institute, part of the Economics Department. In 1972, as part of the merging of Duke's Women's College and Duke's Men's Trinity College, the campus became coeducational. In 1982, The Bryan Center opened with the Duke University Store, Duke Barber Shop, Duke Post Office, Restaurants, Student Government and Administrative Offices. In 1994, Duke opened the
Levine Science Research Center, to house the department of Computer Science. As of 2018, this research complex is the largest single-site interdisciplinary research facility in the United States. By 2004, due to the University's expansion, the need for more housing on West Campus arose and the University opened the first house of what would become Keohane Quadrangle. The last house of the quadrangle was opened in 2012, with more meeting spaces and suite-style living arrangements. 2004 also marked a substantial expansion for the Pratt School of Engineering's buildings on West Campus, with the opening of the
Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering. In 2007,
Bill and
Melinda Gates (an alum of
Duke) opened the French Family Science Center, a facility consisting of biological and genetic laboratories. In 2015, renovations began on most of the housing on West Campus, with the Wannamaker Quadrangle becoming the first retrofitted house. In 2018, the university completed renovations of the Crowell Quadrangle, and is now renovating the Craven Quadrangle. In 2018, as part of a university-wide construction initiative to replace aging dorms on both East Campus and West Campus, construction began on a new quadrangle. == Undergraduate Housing ==