Area less than one acre Architect Royer, Danley, & Smith Opened 1928 | Built 1928 (1928) Architectural style French Eclectic Added to NRHP 23 May 1997 | |
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Location 1108 S. First St., Champaign, Illinois MPS Fraternity and Sorority Houses at the Urbana--Champaign Campus of the University of Illinois MPS Similar University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Memorial Stadium Champaign, State Farm Center, Staerkel Planetarium, Krannert Art Museum | ||
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.
The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 23, 1997.