William R. Perkins Library

Contributors:

Julian Abele, architect (1930); Horace Trumbauer Firm, architects (1930)

Dates:

1930; 1948 [addition]

Location:

Durham, Durham County

Street Address:

West Campus, Duke University, Durham, NC

Status:

Standing

Type:

Educational

Note:

The Library’s tower, complementing the Union tower, continues the overall plan of diversity and unity. A major addition largely invisible from the main quadrangle doubled the book stack area and added the Mary Duke Biddle Rare Book Room in 1948.