Alpha Rho Chi Fraternity House (Champaign, Illinois)

	Alpha Rho Chi Fraternity House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	1108 S. First St., Champaign, Illinois
Coordinates	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 No.	97000460
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. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 23, 1997.

History

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 house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 23, 1997.^[1]

Architecture

The fraternity's house was designed in 1928 by local architecture firm Royer, Danley, and Smith and is 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]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Kummer, Karen Lang; Hargus, Greg (January 1997). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Alpha Rho Chi Fraternity House" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-07-09. Retrieved July 7, 2015.

External links

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[2] Kummer, Karen Lang; Hargus, Greg (January 1997). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Alpha Rho Chi Fraternity House" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-07-09. Retrieved July 7, 2015.

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