Kappa Delta Rho Fraternity House (Champaign, Illinois) Explained

Kappa Delta Rho Fraternity House
Location:1110 S. Second St., Champaign, Illinois
Coordinates:40.1047°N -88.2375°W
Architecture:French Eclectic
Added:May 21, 1990
Area:less than one acre
Refnum:90000750

The Kappa Delta Rho Fraternity House is a historic fraternity house located at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign in Champaign, Illinois. The house was built in 1928 for the university's Eta chapter of the Kappa Delta Rho fraternity, which chartered in 1921.

The building has a French Eclectic design, a style popularized in America after World War I by returning soldiers and several photographic studies of French homes. Its key French Eclectic features include a stucco exterior, a limestone entrance surround shaped like a basket handle, a stair tower, casement windows, and a hip roof with flared eaves.[1]

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

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kolde. Brian. National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Kappa Delta Rho Fraternity House. https://web.archive.org/web/20150706165958/http://gis.hpa.state.il.us/pdfs/200851.pdf. dead. 2015-07-06. Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. July 5, 2015. January 1990.