163 Rugby Rd

From the National Register nomination

Fraternity house. Georgian Revival. Built 1911. Brick (Flemish bond); 2½ stories; gable roof with end parapets; encircling parapets on wing roofs; large central dormer with pedimented segmental-arch roof, flanked by standard-size pedimented dormers with round-arched heads; 9-bay front (5-bay main block); semicircular 2-story front portico enclosing a semicircular brick first-floor vestibule; slightly differing inset, 2-story flanking wings. Brick quoins; belt courses of upright stretchers; arched recesses on first floor containing Palladian windows; arcaded loggia at ground floor of S wing. Among the largest and most elaborate of UVa's chapter houses, this building stands at the center of the District's only planned fraternity quadrangle. Erected for the Delta Tau Delta fraternity in 1911, beginning in 1946 it housed the Serpentine Club, a student group that joined Sigma Phi national fraternity in 1953.