Alpha Rho Chi Fraternity House (Champaign, Illinois)
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Location | 1108 S. First St., Champaign, Illinois |
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Coordinates | 40°6′16″N 88°14′18″W / 40.10444°N 88.23833°WCoordinates: 40°6′16″N 88°14′18″W / 40.10444°N 88.23833°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1928 |
Architect | Royer, Danley, & Smith |
Architectural style | French Eclectic |
MPS | Fraternity and Sorority Houses at the Urbana--Champaign Campus of the University of Illinois MPS |
NRHP Reference # | 97000460[1] |
Added to NRHP | May 23, 1997 |
The Alpha Rho Chi Fraternity House is a historic fraternity house located at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in Champaign, Illinois. Its resident fraternity was one of the two founding chapters of Alpha Rho Chi; it formed as the Arcus Society in 1911 and became the Anthemios chapter of Alpha Rho Chi in 1914. The fraternity's members were all students in architecture or a related field; its name came from the first three letters in the Greek word for architecture, and the chapter's namesake was a famous Greek architect. The fraternity's house, designed in 1928 by local architecture firm Royer, Danley, and Smith, is itself a notable architectural work. The building blends elements of the French Eclectic and English Arts and Crafts styles; significant details include the corner tower over its arched entrance, brick chimneys at the narrow ends of its "L"-shaped plan, decorative brickwork, and a steep tile hip roof.[2]
The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 23, 1997.[1]
References
- 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- ↑ Kummer, Karen Lang; Hargus, Greg (January 1997). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Alpha Rho Chi Fraternity House" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Retrieved July 7, 2015.