Founded in 1924 by James Buchanan Duke in memory of his father, Washington Duke, Duke University (Duke University in English), it is one of the most recognized in the United States and worldwide private educational institutions. The family-a Durham Duke who built a global business empire all by the tobacco industry and the production of electricity-, had always been very interested in education. Founded in Randolph County in 1838 by Methodists and Quakers under the name Trinity College, in 1892 he moved to Durham (North Carolina), where he lived Benjamin Newton Duke, his first benefactor. The result of the influence and donations from Duke, Trinity began his physical transformation and academic expansion to become the current Duke University. The original campus underwent a radical metamorphosis, transforming their facilities in a stately Georgian architecture that made it became the East Campus. A few years later, in 1930, he opened its doors on West Campus Gothic style and dominated by the massive tower of the Duke Chapel , 210 feet (about 65 meters). The East Campus hosted until 1972 the Woman's College , date in which the male and female college merged. Since then, both men and women could enroll in both the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences and the Pratt School of Engineering . In 1995, the Campus became home to all freshmen. * Source photo: Duke University