Alpha Xi Delta Sorority Chapter House

715 W. Michigan Ave., Urbana, Illinois. County/parish: Champaign.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 28, 1989. NRIS 89001110.

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

  • Matthew W. Busey Mansion

From Wikipedia:

Alpha Xi Delta Sorority Chapter House (Champaign, Illinois)

The Alpha Xi Delta Sorority Chapter House is a historic sorority house located at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in Urbana, Illinois. Built in 1915 as a private home, the house was purchased by the Kappa Chapter of the Alpha Xi Delta sorority in 1928. The chapter was formed in 1905 and rented houses until purchasing the house, which was near a developing sorority row east of the university campus. Architect Joseph W. Royer designed the house in the Tudor Revival style. The house's design features vertical half-timbering on the upper stories, decorative brickwork on the first floor, two steep cross gables and multiple dormers projecting from the roof, and multiple brick chimneys.

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 28, 1989.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28890775

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