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35-625: Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity House may refer to: Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity House (West Lafayette, Indiana) , listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Tippecanoe County, Indiana Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity House (Reno, Nevada) , listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Nevada Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity House (Old) , Eugene, Oregon, listed on

70-601: A handwritten description of his own "English Collegiate Gothic Mansion" of 1853 for the Harrals of Bridgeport, Connecticut. By the 1890s, the movement was known as "Collegiate Gothic". In his praise for Cope & Stewardson's Quadrangle Dormitories at the University of Pennsylvania , architect Ralph Adams Cram revealed some of the racial and cultural implications underlying the Collegiate Gothic: It was, of course, in

105-513: A limestone fireplace in a room traditionally called the "bum room" by the fraternity. A one-story kitchen addition was built in 1940, and a three-story and basement addition in 1963. The building was remodeled in 1995 after a fire on the second and third floors nearly destroyed the house. Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 20, 2002. In June 2023, construction began to convert

140-524: A measure. American heroism harks back to English heroism; the blood shed before Manila and on San Juan Hill was the same blood that flowed at Bosworth Field , Flodden , and the Boyne . Therefore the British base of the design is indispensable, for such were the racial foundations. Collegiate Gothic complexes were most often horizontal compositions, save for a single tower or towers serving as an exclamation. At

175-541: A parking garage in a $ 12 to $ 15 million project. President of the Purdue ATO chapter Kiernan McCormick said, "The alumni that owned our home (Mike Cates, PPC Properties owner) decided it was time to do other things with the property. This decision was not shared by the chapter, the alumni, or the National Headquarters, however, it was out of our control legally." PMC stated that it wanted to end its relationship with

210-467: A row of vigorous French Gothic-inspired buildings for Trinity College – Seabury Hall, Northam Tower, Jarvis Hall (all completed 1878) – in Hartford, Connecticut . Tastes became more conservative in the 1880s, and "collegiate architecture soon after came to prefer a more scholarly and less restless Gothic." Beginning in the late-1880s, Philadelphia architects Walter Cope and John Stewardson expanded

245-477: A truncated hipped roof, and a platform porch extending across the front facade. It has nine bays and a parapet tower to the south. The tower presents the tower on the Alpha Tau Omega crest. It originally had a slate roof, and casement windows, all replaced in later renovations. However, the windows feature their original cut limestone facing. There is also a course of decorative limestone carvings above

280-595: Is both the world's second tallest university building and Gothic-styled edifice. The tower contain a half-acre Gothic hall supported only by its 52-foot (16 m) tall arches. It is accompanied by the campus's other Gothic Revival structures by Klauder, including the Stephen Foster Memorial (1935–1937) and the French Gothic Heinz Memorial Chapel (1933–1938). A number of colleges and universities have commissioned major new buildings in

315-530: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity House (West Lafayette, Indiana) Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity House housed the Indiana Gamma Omicron chapter of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity at Purdue University from its construction until May 2021. The Gamma Omicron chapter started as a campus dance club known as

350-485: Is expected to have 337 beds. Collegiate Gothic Collegiate Gothic is an architectural style subgenre of Gothic Revival architecture , popular in the late-19th and early-20th centuries for college and high school buildings in the United States and Canada , and to a certain extent Europe. A form of historicist architecture, it took its inspiration from English Tudor and Gothic buildings. It has returned in

385-575: Is widely considered to be the resulting beautiful and sophisticated Yale campus. Rogers was criticized by the growing Modernist movement. His cathedral-like Sterling Memorial Library (1927–1930), with its ecclesiastical imagery and lavish use of ornament, came under vocal attack from one of Yale's own undergraduates: A modern building constructed for purely modern needs has no excuse for going off in an orgy of meretricious medievalism and stale iconography. Other architects, notably John Russell Pope and Bertram Goodhue (who just before his death sketched

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420-552: The COVID-19 pandemic . The chapter's alumni and the National Alpha Tau Omega HQ and National Board of Trustees advised the chapter not to the new PCM contract. As a result the fraternity stopped renting the property after the 2020-2021 academic year; the chapter house remained empty. In 2021, PCM submitted a proposal to the city to demolish the chapter house to prepare the site for 51 student apartments, retail space, and

455-726: The City College of New York 's new campus (1903–1907) at Hamilton Heights, Manhattan , in the style. The style was experienced up-close by a wide audience at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis , Missouri. The World's Fair and 1904 Olympic Games were held on the newly completed campus of Washington University , which delayed occupying its buildings until 1905. The movement gained further momentum when Charles Donagh Maginnis designed Gasson Hall at Boston College in 1908. Maginnis & Walsh went on to design Collegiate Gothic buildings at some twenty-five other campuses, including

490-482: The University of Pittsburgh , Charles Klauder was commissioned by University of Pittsburgh chancellor John Gabbert Bowman to design a tall building in the form of a Gothic tower. What he produced, the Cathedral of Learning (1926–37), has been described as the literal culmination of late Gothic Revival architecture. A combination of Gothic spire and modern skyscraper, the steel-frame, limestone-clad, 42-story structure

525-477: The 21st century in the form of prominent new buildings at schools and universities including Cornell , Princeton , Vanderbilt , Washington University , and Yale . Ralph Adams Cram , arguably the leading Gothic Revival architect and theoretician in the early 20th century, wrote about the appeal of the Gothic for educational facilities in his book The Gothic Quest: "Through architecture and its allied arts we have

560-679: The Debonair Club in 1902. In the fall of 1903, the club rented a house on Sheetz Street and began looking for a national fraternity to join. At a member on October 17, 1903, the club's members decided to pursue membership in Alpha Tau Omega. The club became the Gamma Omicron chapter of Alpha Tau Omega on November 25, 1904. In 1906, the Alpha Tau Omega Chapter House Association was incorporated in Indiana; its purpose

595-619: The Indianapolis architectural firm R. P. Daggett & Co. Daggett was the first person from the state of Indiana to be admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, graduating from there in 1901. Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity House was built in 1920 by Allan V. Stackhouse, a Gamma Omicron chapter alumnus. The chapter house is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story, rectangular, Tudor Revival style brick and stone building. Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity House It has

630-603: The National Register of Historic Places in Lane County, Oregon Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity House . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alpha_Tau_Omega_Fraternity_House&oldid=1168613385 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

665-629: The campus of Bryn Mawr College in an understated English Gothic style that was highly sensitive to site and materials. Inspired by the architecture of Oxford and Cambridge universities, and historicists but not literal copyists, Cope & Stewardson were highly influential in establishing the Collegiate Gothic style. Commissions followed for collections of buildings at the University of Pennsylvania (1895–1911), Princeton University (1896–1902), and Washington University in St. Louis (1899–1909), marking

700-486: The campuses of American colleges. Examples include Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Boynton Hall, 1868, by Stephen C. Earle ); Yale College ( Farnam Hall , 1869–70, by Russell Sturgis ); the University of Pennsylvania ( College Hall , 1870–72, Thomas W. Richards); Harvard College ( Memorial Hall , 1870–77, William Robert Ware and Henry Van Brunt ); and Cornell University ( Sage Hall (1871–75, Charles Babcock ). In 1871, English architect William Burges designed

735-434: The chapter house into an apartment building for students, following the design of architect Berry Knechtel of KJG Architecture. The project included adding a four-story addition that included 80 apartments. The main section of the historic house was also significantly modified, turning it into small apartments and removing the wings which were not part of the original structure. In total, the new Revive 314 apartment building

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770-473: The chapter house. The West Lafayette Historical Preservation Commission approved the plan on May 1, 2023. Construction on the apartment project began in late June 2023. The house was developed into Revive 314 apartments. Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity House was in Collegiate Gothic style designed by architect Robert Frost Daggett, an ATO member from the University of Pennsylvania chapter and member of

805-613: The city's Area Plan Commission passed the proposal twelve to five in May 2021. The chapter house and project's fate was determined in October 2021 by the West Lafayette City Council which voted eight to one against rezoning the property. City Council members indicated their support for saving the historic chapter house. Students were living in the former fraternity house in 2023. In February 2023, PCM submitted an adaptive reuse plan for

840-595: The entrance and around the tower. The main entrance features a replica oak door with the original hinges, copper threshold, and wrought iron window grate. The chapter house's interior was in Tudor Gothic style, with stone floors, oak columns, gothic pointed doorways in oak, and a large Tudor arch limestone fireplace with an inglenook . The main level included a foyer, billiards room, dining room, and living room. The second and third floors included 26 bedrooms that could house one to four students each. The basement has

875-408: The fraternity, in part, for disciplinary actions. The university sanctioned the fraternity for hazing and alcohol violations twice between 2019 and 2020. The university did not support the redevelopment project, saying that it did not fit into its Master Plan. The West Lafayette Historical Preservation Commission also sent a letter indicating its desire to preserve the historic structure. However,

910-575: The great group of dormitories for the University of Pennsylvania that Cope and Stewardson first came before the entire country as the great exponents of architectural poetry and of the importance of historical continuity and the connotation of scholasticism . These buildings are among the most remarkable yet built in America ... First of all, let it be said at once that primarily they are what they should be: scholastic in inspiration and effect, and scholastic of

945-426: The house in 1995 and 1996. Around 2001, the fraternity sold its chapter house and property to a fraternity brother, Mike Cates, under the business name PCM Properties LLC. PCM which leased the house to the undergraduates of the fraternity for twenty years. PCM prepared a new contract that increased the rent for the property in the fall 2020 semester at a time when the fraternity was still recovering financially from

980-507: The main buildings at Emmanuel College (Massachusetts), and the law school at the University of Notre Dame . Ralph Adams Cram designed a series of Collegiate Gothic buildings for the Princeton University Graduate College (1911–1917). James Gamble Rogers did extensive work at Yale University , beginning in 1917. Some critics claim he took historicist fantasy to an extreme, while others choose to focus on what

1015-534: The model for other library buildings. James Renwick Jr. 's Free Academy Building (1847–49, demolished 1928), for what is today City College of New York , continued in the style. Inspired by London's Hampton Court Palace , Swedish-born Charles Ulricson designed Old Main (1856–57) at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois . Following the Civil War , many idiosyncratic High Victorian Gothic buildings were added to

1050-488: The nascent beginnings of a movement that transformed many college campuses across the country. In 1901, the firm of Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge created a master plan for a Collegiate Gothic campus for the fledgling University of Chicago , then spent the next 15 years completing it. Some of their works, such as the Mitchell Tower (1901–1908), were near-literal copies of historic buildings. George Browne Post designed

1085-420: The original version of Yale's Sterling Library from which Rogers worked), advocated for and contributed to Yale's particular version of Collegiate Gothic. When McMaster University moved to Hamilton, Ontario , Canadian architect William Lyon Somerville designed its new campus (1928–1930) in the style. American architect Alexander Jackson Davis is "generally credited with coining the term" documented in

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1120-660: The power to bend men and sway them as few have who depended on the spoken word. It is for us, as part of our duty as our highest privilege to act...for spreading what is true." Gothic Revival architecture was used for American college buildings as early as 1829, when "Old Kenyon" was completed on the campus of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio . Another early example was Alexander Jackson Davis 's University Hall (1833–37, demolished 1890), on New York University 's Washington Square campus. Richard Bond 's church-like library for Harvard College, Gore Hall (1837–41, demolished 1913), became

1155-493: The summer of 1920 for $ 28,000 ($ 425,860 in 2022 money). Also known as Maltese Manor, the chapter house is located at 314 Russell Street in West Lafayette, Indiana. In 1994, the national fraternity revoked the chapter's charter and the chapter house was vacant. On January 1, 1995, an arsonist set fire to the house and essentially destroyed the house. The chapter's alumni made significant donations to refurbish and restore

1190-604: The type that is ours by inheritance; of Oxford and Cambridge , not of Padua or Wittenberg or Paris . They are picturesque also, even dramatic; they are altogether wonderful in mass and in composition. If they are not a constant inspiration to those who dwell within their walls or pass through their "quads" or their vaulted archways, it is not their fault but that of the men themselves. The [Spanish-American War Memorial] tower has been severely criticized as an archaeological abstraction reared to commemorate contemporary American heroism. The criticism seems just to me, though only in

1225-427: Was to build a chapter house for the fraternity. In the meantime, its rented chapter house was destroyed in a fire on October 25, 1908. The fraternity rented a replacement and began actively raising funds to build a chapter house. The association purchased three lots on the corner of Fourth and Russell Streets for $ 3,465 in 1912. Purdue and ATO alumni oversaw the construction of Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity House in

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