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2 unusual facts about Benjamin N. Duke House


Benjamin N. Duke House

Benjamin's brother James Buchanan Duke (1856–1925) also built a townhouse on Fifth Avenue, the James B. Duke House, which was designated a New York City Landmark in 1970, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

The house was owned by the Duke Family until 2006 when they sold it for $40,000,000 to real estate billionaire Tamir Sapir.


Ben Maltz Gallery

In August 2001, the Gallery moved to Otis’ Westchester campus and was dedicated in honor of Benjamin N. Maltz (1901–1993), a local businessman and founding director of City National Bank, who was a supporter of many nonprofit art organizations.

Benjamin N. Bellis

He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York, in 1946 with a bachelor of science degree in military engineering, a commission as second lieutenant and his pilot wings.

Douglas Burgess

He is a featured blogger for The Huffington Post and is currently a professor of history in Yeshiva University and affiliated professor at Benjamin N Cardozo School of Law.

Elgin Marbles

A study by Professor David Rudenstine of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law concluded that the premise that Elgin obtained legal title to the marbles, which he then transferred to the British government, "is certainly not established and may well be false".

Frederick Albert Hale

Hale also designed at least four buildings in Pueblo, including the 1887 Graham-Wescott Building on Union Avenue, and three buildings constructed 1889: the Nathaniel W. Duke House, the First Congregational Church, and the First Presbyterian Church.

James B. Duke House

Construction was completed in 1912, and the three members of the Duke family—James B., his wife Nanaline, and their daughter Doris—lived there with their staff part of the year.

In 1952, Nanaline and Doris donated the building to New York University's Institute of Fine Arts.

Kathleen Neal Cleaver

After graduating, Cleaver worked for the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, and followed this with numerous jobs including: law clerk in the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia, the faculty of Emory University in Atlanta, visiting faculty member at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City, the Graduate School of Yale University and Sarah Lawrence College.

Lawrence A. Cunningham

From 1988 to 1992, Cunningham practiced corporate law with Cravath, Swaine & Moore, before taking an appointment to the law faculty at the Cardozo School of Law.

Péter Molnár

In 1999 and 2000 he was a Fulbright fellow at Cardozo School of Law, at Columbia Law School, and in the Spring 2000 a Fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University.

The Innocence Project

The first and best-known Innocence organization is based at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University.


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