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Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity House (Champaign, Illinois)

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
90000113

Added to NRHP
  
22 February 1990

Built
  
1907 (1907)

Opened
  
1907

Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity House (Champaign, Illinois)

Location
  
211 E. Daniel St., Champaign, Illinois

Architectural style
  
Prairie School, Craftsman

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 Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity House is a historic fraternity house located at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in Champaign, Illinois. The house was built in 1907 for the Illinois Beta chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity; founded in 1899, it was one of the oldest fraternities at the university. Architects George and Albert Dean designed the house, which combines elements of the Prairie School and American Craftsman styles; it is the university's only fraternity house to incorporate either style. The building's horizontal features, limestone caps and trim, and tall piers extending above the porch roof are characteristic Prairie School elements, while its exposed rafters and gable roof are inspired by Craftsman designs.

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 22, 1990.

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Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity House (Champaign, Illinois) Wikipedia