Property Record
829 COLLEGE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Theta Pi Gamma Sorority |
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| Other Name: | Theta Pi Gamma Sorority |
| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 58027 |
| Location (Address): | 829 COLLEGE |
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| County: | Rock |
| City: | Beloit |
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| Year Built: | 1928 |
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| Survey Date: | 1980 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Dutch Colonial Revival |
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| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Near East Side Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 1/7/1983 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
| National Register Multiple Property Name: | Multiple Resources of Beloit |
| Additional Information: | Two story plus attic sorority house with Dutch Colonial impact and Colonial Revival details including a handsome entrance. The entrance features side lights, a top light and Doric portico consisting of two columns and an entablature. Box bay window to north, double "French" doors across facade, and unusual barrel vault dormers with semi-circular fixed sash above the regular sash. The only one of the group of fraternity and sorority houses along College Street which was built by the organization itself, which still owns the property. Theta Pi Gamma was a local sorority which went national as Delta Gamma and subsequently was stripped of its charter c. 1961 at about the same time it pledged a black student, who as the daughter of an alumna. dormitory |
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| Bibliographic References: | (A) Historical Sites and Points of Interest in Rock County, Wisconsin, Rock County Tourism Council, 5/1994. (B) Beloit Tax Rolls, RCHS Archives. (C) Robert H. Irrmann, Beloit College Archivist, October, 1981. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |