Rugby Road-University Corner Historic District
165 Rugby Rd
McCormack Hall; Kappa Sigma House, Built 1910-11
BrickContributes to the historic character of the district
From the National Register nomination
Fraternity house. Georgian Revival. Built 1910-11. Brick (3-course American bond with Flemish variant); 3 stories; hipped roof; symmetrical 5-bay front; 2-story, 3-bay tetrastyle portico with upper deck. Composite columns; brick quoins; broad wooden entablature dividing second and third stories; cartouche-and-garland cast-stone panels above front windows. Situated at the N end of Warren Manning's fraternity quadrangle, the Kappa Sigma House provided a model for the similar Chi Phi house erected opposite it ten years later. It is named McCormack Hall for the man who established the UVa Kappa Sigma Chapter in 1869.
City historic preservation files
- City historic preservation file. City of Charlottesville, Historic Preservation.