Commissioned after the death of Washington Duke in 1905, and created by Edward V. Valentine, who has design a well-known seated statue of Robert E. Lee, and a statue of Thomas Jefferson at UVA, the Washington Duke statue is well-travelled - and is rumored to be capable of standing.

Text reads: "Member of the General Assembly of the state - Mayor of Durham - Chairman of the Commissioners of the County - Justice of the Peace for fifty years - His life was given to the service of his neighbors to whom he was ever a symbol of rectitude and pattern of virtue - Presented to the County of Durham by his daughter, Sarah Angier Duke...

Jaume Plensa -designed sculpture installed outside of DPAC (Copyright Durham Bull Pen) Caged for construction of the aloft hotel as of 2014 04.21.14 (G. Kueber)

Street obelisk markers like this one used to mark every corner in Durham; only a few remain.