“This project had many complex and labor-intensive pieces. Two types of stonework stood out for me—the seven foot tall finials, which each had numerous carved crockets, and the large tracery windows. Those were two foot thick, pierced through, and glazed with stained glass.”
—Will Bybee
Bybee Stone President
Location: Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
Duke Divinity School
The Duke Divinity School project was a 2005 addition to a 1926 structure, and every effort was made to replicate the hand-crafted, neo-Gothic, original stone construction of Trinity College, founded on the school’s site in 1859. The Chapel and Divinity School today form the largest Methodist Church in the world, and utilize an ecumenical outlook, with faculty and students from diverse denominations.
The Divinity School was founded in 1926 following a large endowment by James B. Duke, and became Duke’s first graduate school. Offering degrees ranging from Doctor of Theology to Master of Divinity, its program includes a wide range of theological studies.
