Alpha Rho Chi Fraternity House (Champaign, Illinois)

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.[2]

Alpha Rho Chi Fraternity House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	1108 S. First St., Champaign, Illinois
Coordinates	40°6′16″N 88°14′18″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1928
Architect	Royer, Danley, & Smith
Architectural style	French Eclectic
MPS	Fraternity and Sorority Houses at the Urbana--Champaign Campus of the University of Illinois MPS
NRHP reference No.	97000460[1]
Added to NRHP	May 23, 1997

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 23, 1997.[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Kummer, Karen Lang; Hargus, Greg (January 1997). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Alpha Rho Chi Fraternity House" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Retrieved July 7, 2015.