Gamma Phi Beta Sorority House (Urbana, Illinois)

	Gamma Phi Beta Sorority House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	1110 W. Nevada St., Urbana, Illinois
Coordinates	40°6′21″N 88°13′21″W / 40.10583°N 88.22250°WCoordinates: 40°6′21″N 88°13′21″W / 40.10583°N 88.22250°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1918
Architect	Hewitt, Emerson & Gregg
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
MPS	Fraternity and Sorority Houses at the Urbana--Champaign Campus of the University of Illinois MPS
NRHP reference No.	94001270
Added to NRHP	October 28, 1994

The Gamma Phi Beta Sorority House is a historic sorority house located at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in Urbana, Illinois. The house was built in 1918 for the university's Omicron chapter of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority, which was formed in 1909 as the Phi Beta Club and officially made part of the national sorority in 1913. During its early years, the chapter was noted for the academic success of its members, its promotion of women's issues on campus, and its social activities. The sorority's house was part of an emerging sorority district in Urbana; while the university's fraternity row was in Champaign, the Urbana site was closer to the women's dormitory and gymnasium and thus more attractive for sororities. In 1927, during a growth period for the university's Greek-letter organizations, architecture firm Hewitt, Emerson & Gregg designed and built a Georgian Revival expansion of the sorority's original duplex house.^[2]

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 28, 1994.^[1]

References[]

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ Edwards, Alice; Blair, Lachlan F. (June 1994). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Gamma Phi Beta Sorority House" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-07-06. Retrieved July 5, 2015.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

[2] Edwards, Alice; Blair, Lachlan F. (June 1994). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Gamma Phi Beta Sorority House" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-07-06. Retrieved July 5, 2015.

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