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As fraternity membership was punishable by expulsion at many colleges at this time, the house was located deep in the woods. [2] Fraternity chapter housing initially existed in two forms: lodges that served as meeting rooms and houses that had boarding rooms. [3] The lodges came first and were largely replaced by houses with living accommodations.
The literary exercises of these societies usually consisted of a debate, and the meetings were open to the public. In addition to a debate, members could be assigned original poems, essays, fiction, to both compose and deliver. Each society had distinctive meetings, with more or less political, social, or religious discussion. [2] [5]
The first fraternity meeting hall, or lodge, seems to have been that of the Alpha Epsilon chapter of Chi Psi at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1845, leading to a tradition in that fraternity to name its buildings "lodges". As fraternity membership was punishable by expulsion at many colleges at this time, the house was ...
Fraternity Hall is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located in Elkhorn, Montana. It was added to the Register on April 3, 1975. [1] [2] The building was built in the 1890s. It has an ornate, cantilevered balcony and it has a false front with simulated pilasters and arches which "is said to be architecturally unique". Its NRHP ...
Fraternity November 17, 1911 Howard University Decatur, Georgia: 750 1930 First fraternity to be founded at a historically black university. Delta Sigma Theta: ΔΣΘ: Sorority January 13, 1913 Howard University Washington, D.C. 1,060 [10] 350,000 [10] 1930 Phi Beta Sigma: ΦΒΣ: Fraternity January 9, 1914 Howard University
Kappa Delta Rho was founded in room 14 of Old Painter Hall at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont on May 17, 1905. [2] Middlebury was the site of chapters of three fraternities that year: Chi Psi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Delta Upsilon.
The former meeting hall building in the Longfellow neighborhood was destroyed by arson during the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis–Saint Paul on May 28, 2020. [18] [19] IOOF Hall (NE Minneapolis) 1891 401 East Hennepin Ave. Minneapolis, Minnesota
There are many meeting hall buildings of the Elks that are prominent in small towns and in cities in the United States; a number of these are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places (NRHP program). There are many hundreds of buildings that have limited association with Elks; this list is intended to cover only the most prominent ...