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Originally Posted by MysticCat
Yeah, I always wondered why you guys had to snub the rest of the Miami GLOs and put your HQ somewhere else. 
As I noted yesterday, our HQ, which is called "Lyrecrest," is nowhere near Boston, where we were founded. I forgot, however, about an interesting factoid about Lyrecrest. The address in Evansville is 10600 Old State Rd. Coincidentally, this address -- 10600 -- corresponds to the date (two years to the day after our founding) that we established our Beta Chapter and went national: October 6, 1900. Lyrecrest has three buildings on about 5 acres; there is also a small lake or pond and an oil well. (The oil well predates our purchase of the property 1970; I don't think it's operational anymore.) |
MysticCat- I lived in Evansville for several years and was married there. Our organist is a Phi Mu Alpha- in fact I think he worked as the editor of your magazine at the time we were married (2000- so he might have moved on by now).
I am now in Indy and live close to Founders Road. I heard that the fraternities/sororities that are HQed here are here because of the incorporation laws. For some reason (probably taxes as stated) they incorporated in Indiana- however the incorporation law requires that they have a physical presence here- so the HQs are here.
As for AOII- they were once headquartered here, before the move to Tennessee.