400 Hermitage Road
The Duke Mansion, also known as "Lynnwood," "White Oaks," or just "the big house," is a large Colonial Revival mansion where James Buchanan Duke and his family spent several months of each year between 1919 and his death in 1925. It was one of four family houses and provided Duke with a place from which to oversee his thriving utility empire, the predecessor to Charlotte's current electrical company, Duke Energy. It also gave his only daughter, Doris, the opportunity to experience Southern life and society. In 1915, Duke chose architect C.C. Hook to enlarge an earlier mansion built here to include 45 rooms and 12 bathrooms, and Earle Sumner Draper to landscape the 15-acre garden.
Turn around and look across the street at 435 Hermitage Road.
