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Phi Mu Sorority House (Urbana, Illinois)

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Area
  
less than one acre

Architectural style
  
Spanish Eclectic

Opened
  
1928

Built
  
1928 (1928)

NRHP Reference #
  
90000751

Added to NRHP
  
21 May 1990

Phi Mu Sorority House (Urbana, Illinois)

Location
  
706 W. Ohio St., Urbana, Illinois

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

The Phi Mu Sorority House is a historic sorority house at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in Urbana, Illinois. The sorority house was built in 1928 for the university's Delta Beta chapter of the Phi Mu sorority, which formed in 1921; the sorority itself was founded in 1852 and is one of the oldest sororities in the United States. At the time, the university had one of the largest Greek letter society movements in the country. The sorority's house has a Spanish Eclectic design with an arcaded porch and large patio, a campanile on one corner, and a colored tile roof. Phi Mu used the house until moving to a new building after World War II; the building has since been used by other Greek and student life groups.

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 21, 1990.

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Phi Mu Sorority House (Urbana, Illinois) Wikipedia