Two of North Carolina’s most prestigious universities have been named one of the most beautiful across the country.
From the east coast to the west, Condé Nast Traveler released a list of 54 schools that could be considered some of “America’s most magnificent architectural masterpieces” — including Duke University in Durham and Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem.
Duke University in Durham
“Duke University is dominated by Collegiate Gothic buildings , most notably the towering, 210-foot-high Duke Chapel , with a 50-bell carillon , three pipe organs and seating for no fewer than 1,800 people,” the report says. “But it’s the Duke Forest and the Sarah P. Duke Gardens that are the real highlights here — the latter was designed by celebrated American landscape designer Ellen Biddle Shipman, and is filled with a world-class array of irises, palms and roses.”
The private school, which is home to more than 17,000 students, was created in 1924. Though its institutional history goes back far beyond that…