Washington Post Visits Washington Duke Inn

"'Do you think you’ll need a sportcoat?'...After all, we’re in North Carolina (Durham, to be exact). At a somewhat pricey hotel (and golf resort). Surely it’s the kind of place that might still have a dress code. You know, some rules about appropriate attire in the fancy white-tablecloth restaurant. I, for one, am wearing a nice dress and heels."

—"In Durham, N.C., an inn that’s traditional but casual, too," Zofia Smardz, Washington Post