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Title: University of Pennsylvania: its history, traditions, buildings and memorials: also a brief guide to Philadelphia
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Nitzsche, George Erasmus, 1874- (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: University of Pennsylvania
Publisher: Philadelphia, International printing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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described as a modified Collegiate Gothic. The planswere drawn by William D. Hewitt, and the building was con-structed of stone from the Chester Valley, donated by one ofthe members. The trimmings are of Ohio stone. The build-ing has a frontage on Thirty-sixth Street of 64 feet, and anaverage depth of 60 feet on Woodland Avenue and LocustStreet. On the main floor is a large central hall, reception room,dining room, library and study; oh the second and third floorsare fourteen large bedrooms, with the necessary shower andbath rooms. On the third floor is also a large chapter, orinitiation room, 24 feet square. The floors and all the in-terior woodwork are of oak. This building, and all the newFraternity houses about the campus, have their own steam orhot water heating systems, and are equipped with everythingnecessary for a complete club house, including huge open fire-places. DELTA PHI.—At 3453 Woodland Avenue, is the DeltaPhi house, also known as the St. Elmo Club. The front eleva-
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208 tion comes out to the building line of Woodland Avenue, andforms the long side of a triangular lot, which gives the buildingthe appearance of being more massive than it really is, its depthbeing rather shallow. The style of architecture might be de-scribed as an adaptation of the Jacobean. The building is con-structed of hard burnt brick, ornamented by borders, copingsand projections of the same material. It is four stories high,and on the second floor, facing the campus, is a small openloggia. ■-^-^ 9^ %*«^ ^-^«***^^

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