Delta Upsilon Fraternity House (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
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Delta Upsilon Fraternity House | |
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| Location | 1331 Hill St., Ann Arbor, Michigan |
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| Coordinates | 42°16′20″N 83°43′56″W / 42.27222°N 83.73222°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1902 |
| Architect | Albert Kahn |
| Architectural style | Tudor Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 95001394[1] |
| Added to NRHP | November 29, 1995 |
The Delta Upsilon Fraternity House is a fraternity house located at 1331 Hill Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.[1]
Delta Upsilon was founded in 1834 at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. The chapter at the University of Michigan was founded in 1874. By the early 1900s, the chapter needed a new house. Alumni pooled donations, and the chapter hired Detroit architect Albert Kahn to design this new house.
Construction began in 1902, and was completed in 1903.[2] Delta Upsilon was the first fraternity to move to this part of Ann Arbor, but many other fraternities and sororities followed. The fraternity has continuously occupied the house since its construction,[3] and it is the oldest fraternity house in Ann Arbor still being used by the organization that built it.[2] It is also one of the earliest surviving examples of Kahn's non-industrial, non-commercial designs.[2]
In 2008, a fire gutted the building. It was restored at a cost of nearly $6 million and re-opened in 2012.[4]
