Greek Houses and Other Undergraduate Societies
| Building | Image | Constructed | Notes | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpha Chi Alpha | 1896 | The Alpha Chi Alpha house was built and owned by the Emery family before being occupied by Alpha Chi Rho fraternity between 1956 and 1961. In 1963, the organization became Alpha Chi Alpha. | ||
| Alpha Delta | 192X | Alpha Delta Phi built this house to replace their prior home on the same plot. In 1969, the name was changed to Alpha Delta. | ||
| Alpha Theta | 1940–1941 | The Alpha Theta house, built by AΘ's predecessor fraternity Theta Chi, was a replacement for an older building whose furnace leaked, killing nine house members. | ||
| Amarna | 192X | Amarna, a College undergraduate society, moved into this house on East Wheelock Street in 1993. | ||
| Beta Alpha Omega | 1931 | After being removed from campus in 1997, Beta Theta Pi was reformed as Beta Alpha Omega in the fall of 2008, re-occupying its house after renting it to sorority Alpha Xi Delta during its time off-campus. | ||
| Bones Gate | 1925 | Bones Gate, formerly Delta Tau Delta, moved into this house from an older structure on North Main Street. It was rebuilt following a fire in 1929. | ||
| Casque and Gauntlet | 1823 | This house at 1 South Main Street houses Casque & Gauntlet, a senior society founded in 1886. | ||
| Chi Gamma Epsilon | 1937 | Kappa Sigma, later Chi Gamma Epsilon, built this structure as a replacement for their 1915 building. | ||
| Chi Heorot | 1929 c. | The Chi Heorot house at 11 East Wheelock Street was built to replace their 1795 structure. | ||
| Cobra Hall | 1898-1915 ca. | This College-owned house at 13 Summer Street served as Dartmouth's Hillel house before the Roth Center for Jewish Life was finished in 1998. It is now used by Cobra, a women's senior society founded in 1979. | ||
| Delta Delta Delta | 1898 | The Delta Delta Delta house was built as a faculty duplex, and its halves were variously occupied by Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and College substance-free housing. Tri-Delt occupied the house around 1992, and its two halves were joined around 1994. | ||
| Dragon Society | 1995–1996 | The Dragon Society's former tomb was demolished to make way for Berry Library, and the College helped build this one as replacement. It stands on a hill overlooking College Street. | ||
| Epsilon Kappa Theta | 1896 | This house was built for a professor and was leased to the Mary Hitchock Memorial Hospital School of Nursing during the 1940s. After being occupied by a number of failed coeducational societies, it was obtained by the College. EKT began renting it in 1991. | ||
| Fire & Skoal House | 1893-1896 ca. | Fire & Skoal, a senior society, has occupied this building on Park Street since 1984. | ||
| Gamma Delta Chi | 1936 ca. | This house was built following the merger of two societies to form Gamma Delta Chi. The house has an underground basketball court underneath the porch. | ||
| Kappa Delta Epsilon | 1898–1899 | Privately owned until 1950, the house was used as the initial location of the Foley House until Alpha Chi Omega, eventually KDE, obtained it in 1984. | ||
| Kappa Kappa Gamma | 1842 | Originally standing on the site of the east entrance to Baker Library, this house was moved to its present location on East Wheelock Street in the 1920s. Kappa Kappa Gamma has occupied it since before 1986. | ||
| Kappa Kappa Kappa | 1925 | Tri-Kap's third residence, at 1 Webster Avenue, was funded by the College in return for the fraternity's property on the site of Silsby Hall. | ||
| Panarchy | 1835 | Panarchy resides in an off-campus house with a Doric temple front and cupola. It was bought in the early 20th century by a local fraternity whose descendant, Phi Sigma Psi, became the current undergraduate society of Panarchy around 1992. | ||
| Phi Delta Alpha | 1902 | Phi Delta Theta was the first fratenity to establish itself on Webster Avenue. In 1960, its name changed to Phi Delta Alpha. | ||
| Phi Tau | 2002 | Phi Tau's current building was built as part of Dartmouth's construction of Berry Library and other north campus development. | ||
| Psi Upsilon | 1908 | Psi Upsilon's house was constructed on an empty lot previously housing a local hatter. | ||
| Sigma Alpha Epsilon | 1931 | This structure replaced Sigma Alpha Epsilon's house on the same site. | ||
| Sigma Delta | 1936–1937 | Originally belonging to Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, the College bought this structure in the 1970s and rented it to Dartmouth's first sorority, Sigma Kappa (later Sigma Delta). | ||
| Sigma Nu | 1925 | Sigma Nu's house at 12 Webster Avenue has undergone numerous alterations since its 1925 construction. | ||
| Sigma Phi Epsilon | 1896 | This house was privately owned until at least 1950; the College acquired the property from the Cardigan Mountain School in 1953 and leased it to Sigma Phi Epsilon later that year. A wing was added in 1959. The fraternity purchased the property in 1964. In June 2010, the fraternity demolished the worn out and now inadequate building to make room for a new house completed at the end of 2010. | ||
| Sphinx | 1903 | The Sphinx tomb on East Wheelock Street was designed by Manchester architect William M. Butterfield. | ||
| The Tabard | 1932 | The Eta-Eta Chapter of Sigma Chi fraternity, a descendant of a Chandler School society, built this house to replace a previous burned structure. The fraternity adopted the name The Tabard, a reference to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, on April 20, 1960, and became coeducational in the 1970s. | ||
| Theta Delta Chi | 1925 | This house stands on land used by Eleazar Wheelock for a garden. It was constructed in 1924 to replace the fraternity's earlier house on this site after it burned. | ||
| Zeta Psi | 1925 | Zeta Psi began in 1853 but lapsed during the 1860s and late 19th century. It lost College recognition in 2001 but regained recognition in 2009. |
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