Historic Fraternity/Sorority House Floor Plans?

[Titchou]

As far as my GLO is concerned, we don't keep that sort of information nationally and probably wouldn't give it out, for security reasons, if we did. I would think the best idea would be the local city or county building permit office or perhaps fire department.

[oldu]

In my library, I have an 8 page publication of the new DKE house at Syracuse University dated April 1903 complete with plans & pictures. I think the house is still in use today. There is also a publication of the very beautiful Phi Gam house at Penn dating around 1915 (which I don't have) that was listed on one of the rare book sites. If you go to one of the rare book sites (ABE, Amazon, etc.) and type in the names of the various groups you might find some others. Those are the only two I know of, although I seem to remember running across something on your very nice DTD at Purdue somewhere. Good luck.

[oldu]

I also just discovered that I have a book entitled "Designing & Building the Chapter House" by Oswold C. Hering and published by the Banta Press in 1931. Also, I found a couple of old Architectural Student's Thesis from 1917 for the design of a fraternity house. That could also be a resource. Several of the fraternities published housing manuals and I seem to remember plans in some of them.