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Alpha Gamma Delta Fraternity House

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Area
  
less than one acre

Architect
  
Ramey, George

Added to NRHP
  
5 August 2009

Built
  
1927 (1927)-28

Architectural style
  
French Eclectic

Alpha Gamma Delta Fraternity House

Location
  
1106 S. Lincoln Ave., Urbana, Illinois

MPS
  
Fraternity and Sorority Houses at the Urbana--Champaign Campus of the University of Illinois MPS

The Alpha Gamma Delta Fraternity House is a historic fraternity house located at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in Urbana, Illinois. The house was built in 1927-28 for the Sigma chapter of the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority, which was established in 1917 and chartered the following year. By the 1930s, the chapter was known for its academic success, and six of its members had been invited to Phi Beta Kappa; its members were also active in campus groups and university athletics. Architect George Ramey designed the sorority's house in the French Eclectic style, which became popular in the United States after World War I. Significant elements of the design include its gray brick exterior, its steep slate hipped roof, its central staircase tower with a conical roof, and its stone quoins.

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 5, 2009.

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Alpha Gamma Delta Fraternity House Wikipedia