Rugby Road-University Corner Historic District

161 Rugby Rd

Chi Phi House, Built 1922

BrickContributes to the historic character of the district

1922
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From the National Register nomination

Fraternity house. Georgian Revival. Built 1922. Brick (Flemish bond); 3 stories; hipped roof; symmetrical 5-bay front, main block; two-story, 3-bay tetrastyle portico with Composite columns; 2-story, 3-bay W wing. Mousetooth brick cornice; wooden modillion cornice separating second and third stories; Greek Revival-style main-floor window lintels. Eugene Bradbury, architect. The last of the three fraternity houses forming Warren Manning's Rugby Road fraternity quadrangle, this strongly Classical building echoes the lines of the 1910 Kappa Sigma House at the opposite end of the court.

City historic preservation files

People

  • Eugene Bradbury architect in 1922
  • Warren Manning associated (fraternity quadrangle)