169 Rugby Rd

From the National Register nomination

Fraternity house. Jeffersonian Revival. Built 1926. Brick (Flemish bond); 2 stories; intersecting hipped roofs (covered with standing-seam metal); symmetrical 7-bay front; cruciform plan with semi-octagonal 1-story wings at sides and rear; tetrastyle Roman Doric front portico with pedimented roof. Broad Doric entablature dividing lower and upper stories; triple-hung-sash windows with Chinese lattice guards; pedimented main entry; round windows at sides of projecting front pavilion. Louis Vorhees (in collaboration with Fiske Kimball), architect. Based on Thomas Jefferson's original (1780s) version of Monticello, this fraternity house features a cruciform plan with semioctagonal side and rear wings. Costing $40,000 to build in 1926, it was by far the most expensive of UVa's pre-World War II fraternity houses.