NRHP: Phi Delta Theta Fraternity House

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Phi Delta Theta Fraternity House

NRHP Reference #: 86001183

NRHP Listing Date: 19860528

Location

1545 R, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska

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Summary

Located in the University environs, the three-story Art Deco building is sheathed in Kansas limestone. Martin I. Aitken designed the chapter house in 1937. A Lincoln native who graduated from the University of Nebraska and from Yale School of Architecture, Aitken established an architectural practice in Lincoln around 1937. In later years he was affiliated with the firm Aitken, Hazen, Hoffman, and Miller.

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