Yorba Linda Regional Park

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We visited California in April this year and will be posting images from there.

Yorba Regional Park in Anaheim is a forested paradise with fishing lakes. Feels like Yorba Linda, but actually in Anaheim. This thin, linear park is just over a mile long but offers casual biking opportunities, a riverside equestrian trail, beautiful water features, and amenities galore.

Pond at Yorba Linda Regional Park

Kress Building Ornate Architecture

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S. H. Kress & Co. was an iconic American “five-and-dime” retail chain founded by Samuel Henry Kress in 1896. Renowned for their ornate Art Deco architecture, over 200 Kress stores transformed Main Street America. This one is in Durham.

We end the series of images of architecture, from Gothic, Modern, and Art Deco in Durham, North Carolina.

Kress Building Sign

Kress Building from the Side

Hill Building Art Deco Style

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The Hill Building in downtown Durham, North Carolina, is a premier example of 1930s Art Deco architecture. Completed in 1937 for banker John Sprunt Hill, it served as a defining commercial skyscraper for the city and now operates as the 21c Museum Hotel Durham.

Hill Building Art Deco Style

Hill Building Art Deco Architecture

Durham Hotel Modern Architecture

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The Durham Hotel is anything but typical. Its modern geometric siding and angled tower have kept the mid century style alive in Durham. Built in 1968, this gem of mid-century modern architecture, with its mid-century facade and its distinct gold accents, remains.

Durham Hotel

Durham City Hall

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Moving away from Gothic architecture at Duke University, we saw Durham City Hall. A complete exterior and interior renovation was needed for Durham City Hall, which opened in 1975. To require minimal maintenance, soften the building’s feel, and give the structure a strong presence, metal wall panels were selected.

Durham City Hall

From Inside Brodhead Center at Duke University

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The Duke University Brodhead Center for Campus Life, formerly the historic West Campus Union, is the major cornerstone of the Duke Campus. Fully modernized, with glass, the high-ceilinged, day-lit hall includes a variety of dining venues where faculty, students, staff, and alumni can meet for planned or impromptu interactions.

From Inside Brodhead Center at Duke University

Stairs Inside Brodhead Center at Duke University

Brodhead Center at Duke University

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The architects, for the Richard H. Brodhead Center, preserved the integrity of the 1920s design, restoring the historic structure while also building a modern glass-centric atrium at Duke University. The facility features diverse dining venues and student life spaces of many scales. The design of the “interior street,” which blends new and old and was instrumental in defining the ambitions of the student life spaces, was developed in collaboration with Duke’s stakeholders and the student body.

Brodhead Center at Duke University

Brodhead Center Reflections

Memorial Chapel inside Duke Chapel

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The Memorial Chapel is located just off the main area of the Duke Chapel, behind iron gates. On the altar are three limewood figures: St. Paul, Jesus, and St. Peter. Entombed in the Memorial Chapel are the benefactors for whom the University is named, Washington Duke and his two sons, Benjamin N. Duke and James B. Duke.

Memorial Chapel inside Duke Chapel

Duke Statue at the Chapel

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James Buchanan Duke is depicted on the statue as larger than life, standing atop an octagonal plinth or pedestal of polished dark granite in front of Duke Chapel. He is holding a walking stick in his right hand and the ever-present cigar in his left hand.

James Buchanan Duke (1856–1925) was an American industrialist and philanthropist known for revolutionizing the tobacco industry, building a massive hydroelectric power empire, and founding Duke University.

Duke Chapel behind the James Duke Statue

James Duke Statue in front of Duke Chapel