Benjamin N. Duke House
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The Benjamin N. Duke House, also the Duke–Semans Mansion and the Benjamin N. and Sarah Duke House, is a mansion at 1009 Fifth Avenue, at the southeast corner with 82nd Street, on the Upper East Side o
The mansion in 2010
Part of the facade on 82nd Street
View of the Fifth Avenue facade from ground level
Viewed from the steps of The Met Fifth Avenue, across Fifth Avenue
Benjamin Newton Duke
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Benjamin Newton Duke was an American tobacco, textile and energy industrialist and philanthropist. He served as vice-president at American Tobacco Company, being also founder of Duke Energy.
Benjamin N. Duke House
…The house was divided into three apartments in the 1990s, and it had 12 bedrooms and 14 bathrooms by the 2010s. American Tobacco Company director Benjamin N. Duke acquired the house in April 1901 and lived there until he moved to a new house at 2 East 89th Street in 1909. Benjamin's brother James lived with his…
Portrait of Benjamin Newton Duke
Benjamin N. Duke House in New York City