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unusual facts about Nathaniel W. 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.

Clay family

Nathaniel W. Watkins (1796-1876), Confederate Army brigadier general and Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives.

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.

Scott County, Missouri

Located near Morley is the gravesite of Nathaniel W. Watkins, a state legislator and a general in the Missouri State Guards who was also the half-brother of Henry Clay.


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