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e s s a y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Discovery of an Architect Duke University and Julian F. Abele by William E. King In 1937, the English novelist Aldous Huxley described “a pleasant but unexciting land” when “all of a sudden, astonishingly, a whole city of gray Gothic stone emerged from the warm pine forest.” Duke’s West Campus, courtesy of Duke University Photography. n 193, a distinguished visitor touring the United States, the En- glish novelist Aldous Huxley, was traveling through North Caro- lina by auto one hot summer day. He described “a pleasant but unexciting land” when “all of a sudden, astonishingly, a whole I city of gray Gothic stone emerged from the warm pine forest.” He was thrilled by the “academic city” with the dominating “leaping tower” of the huge cathedral and the “spreading succession of quadrangles.” He called the cam- pus “genuinely beautiful, the most successful essay in neo-Gothic that I know.” Huxley, like generations of succeeding travelers, had come upon the campus of Duke University. Like most visitors through the years, Huxley was unaware that the dramatic new
Southern Cultures – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Feb 21, 2009
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