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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 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 ...
Next there were unsuccessful attempts to create collegiate fraternities, such as Gamma Phi fraternity at Wilberforce University (first official campus recognition in 1923; a 1923 yearbook entry reported operation as early as 1905), Alpha Kappa Nu at Indiana University (formation attempted in 1903, but involved too few registrants to assure ...
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
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 ...
The Saint Anthony Hall Trinity College chapter house is an historic fraternity building located at 340 Summit Street in Hartford, Connecticut. Built between 1877 and 1878, it is a significant early work of the American architect J. Cleaveland Cady. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in November 1985. [1]
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 Tri-Alphas held their first meeting in the Estufa on February 20, 1908, [6] while the building was still unfinished. In 1915, Alpha Alpha Alpha became the Beta Delta chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha, the university's first national fraternity, [7] and the Estufa has continued to serve as the chapter's primary meeting location for nearly 100 years. [8]