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The first chapter house built by a women's fraternity was the one Alpha Phi erected at Syracuse University in 1886. [ 6 ] Many colleges eventually came to support fraternity and sorority housing as they allowed increased enrollment without the construction of costly dormitories.
Chi Psi Fraternity House (Eugene, Oregon) Close House (Iowa City, Iowa) D. Southworth House (Cleveland, Ohio) Delta Tau Delta Founders House; E. Edward Augustus ...
However, many women's organizations and co-ed organizations refer to themselves as women's fraternities. This list of collegiate North American fraternities is not exhaustive. It consists only of social collegiate fraternities; other types of social fraternal organizations can be found under the list of general fraternities.
A fraternity is usually understood to mean a social organization composed only of men, and a sorority is composed of women. However, many women's organizations and co-ed organizations also refer to themselves as women's fraternities. This list of North American collegiate sororities and women's fraternities is not exhaustive.
The first fraternity meeting hall, or lodge, seems to have been that of the Alpha Epsilon chapter of Chi Psi at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1845, leading to a tradition in that fraternity to name its buildings "lodges". As fraternity membership was punishable by expulsion at many colleges at this time, the house was ...
United States Benevolent Fraternity – Name of at least two Baltimore-based organizations. One was established in 1890 and disbanded in 1894. A longer-lasting one was established on February 22, 1881, by Thomas H. McGechin.
Ceres (women's fraternity) Chi Alpha Delta; Chi Delta Theta; Chi Gamma Epsilon; Chi Heorot; Chi Iota Pi; Chi Omega; Chi Tau (local) Chi Upsilon Sigma; Clovia (sorority) List of College of William & Mary fraternities and sororities; Colony (fraternity or sorority) Concilio Interfraternitario Puertorriqueño de la Florida
Old Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House; P. Phi Mu Sorority House (Urbana, Illinois) R. Daniel Webster Robinson House