Duke Farms
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Duke Farms previously served as an estate that was established by James Buchanan Duke, an American entrepreneur who founded Duke Power and the American Tobacco Company, and owned by his daughter, Dori
The Farm Barn building, now the Orientation Center
The Orchid Range
9 11 memorial in Duke Farms
Inside the Hay Barn in Duke Farms, Hillsborough, New Jersey
Duke Gardens (New Jersey)
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Duke Gardens in Somerset County, New Jersey, were among the most significant glass house collections in America. Created by Doris Duke, they were larger than the New York Botanical Garden's Enid A. Ha
Duke Farms
…in 1958 she created and designed over a five-year period a unique botanical display in the Horace Trumbauer conservatory and greenhouses known as Duke Gardens. Duke Gardens opened to the public in 1964. Doris Duke died in 1993. Duke Farms is a center of the Doris Duke Foundation. A decision was made to renovate…
Approach to Duke Gardens, showing Trumbauer conservatory housing Semi-tropical, Italian, and Colonial Gardens
The Chinese Garden, showing serenity bridge over koi stream
The French Garden on the day before closure. Contrast with the same garden in Miss Duke's lifetime to see effect of garden staff reductions.