Alpha Rho Chi Fraternity House (Champaign, Illinois)
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| Location | 1108 S. First St., Champaign, Illinois |
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| Coordinates | 40°6′16″N 88°14′18″W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1928 |
| Architect | Royer, Danley, & Smith |
| Architectural style | French Eclectic |
| MPS | Fraternity and Sorority Houses at the Urbana--Champaign Campus of the University of Illinois MPS |
| NRHP reference No. | 97000460 |
| Added to NRHP | May 23, 1997 |
The Alpha Rho Chi Fraternity House is a historic fraternity house located at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in Champaign, Illinois. Its resident fraternity was one of the two founding chapters of Alpha Rho Chi; it formed as the Arcus Society in 1911 and became the Anthemios chapter of Alpha Rho Chi in 1914. The fraternity's members were all students in architecture or a related field; its name came from the first three letters in the Greek word for architecture, and the chapter's namesake was a famous Greek architect.
The fraternity's house was designed in 1928 by local architecture firm Royer, Danley, and Smith and is a notable architectural work. The building blends elements of the French Eclectic and English Arts and Crafts styles; significant details include the corner tower over its arched entrance, brick chimneys at the narrow ends of its L-shaped plan, decorative brickwork, and a steep tile hip roof.
The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 23, 1997.