Appendix IA. Fraternities at Lafayette College, 1853-
Directory and images of fraternities at Lafayette College
Alpha Chi Rho
Chapter name: Phi Alpha
Local fraternity name: Psi Alpha Kappa
Date organized: 1902
Date of national affiliation: 1903
Date closed: 1985 due to low membership
Location and date of house(s): 718 Hamilton St. (1919); Sullivan Lane
Alpha Sigma Delta (local)
See Phi Kappa Tau
Chapter name:
Local fraternity name:
Date organized: 1920; created from 2 clubs, Order of Sphinx and Arrows
Date of national affiliation:
Date closed:
Location and date of house(s):
Arrows Club — See Alpha Sigma Delta
Chi Phi
Chapter name: Rho
Local fraternity name:
Date organized: 1874
Date of national affiliation: 1874
Date closed: 2005
Date reinstated: December, 2017
Location and date of house: Vallamont, 4 West Campus Lane (1909), Horace Trumbauer, architect
Delta Beta Phi
Chapter name: Psi
Local fraternity name:
Date organized: 1878; re-established 1881
Date of national affiliation: 1878
Date closed: 1884
Location and date of house(s):
Delta Kappa Epsilon
Chapter name: Rho
Local fraternity name:
Date organized: 1855
Date of national affiliation:
Date closed:
Location and date of house(s): March Field (1903), destroyed by fire, Dec. 3, 1959.New house built, March Field (1961-62)
Delta Tau Delta
Chapter name: Nu
Local fraternity name: Skull and Raven (1900-1906)
Date organized: 1874; reorganized in 1878; inactive in 1893; becomes Skull and Raven in 1900; formally reinstated in 1906
Date of national affiliation: 1874
Date closed: 1988 due to disciplinary action
Date reinstated: 2016
Location and date of house(s): West Campus, beside Marquis Hall until 1988; 1st and 2nd floors, Rubin Hall, after 2016
Delta Upsilon
Chapter name: Lafayette Chapter
Local fraternity name:
Date organized: 1885; 1988 closed due to disiplinary action; 1993 reinstated
Date of national affiliation: 1885
Date closed:
Location and date of house(s): East Campus, house located at current site of Farinon Center and designed by architects Klemann and Fowler of Trenton, NJ (1912); after 1993 reinstatement former Phi Delta Theta (1996); former Chi Phi house (2005); former Sigma Chi house as of 2015
Elms — See Theta Xi
Friars — See Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Iota Alpha Kappa
Chapter name: Delta
Local fraternity name:
Date organized: 1863
Date of national affiliation: 1863
Date closed: 1874-75
Location and date of house(s):
Kappa Delta Rho
Chapter name: Rho
Local fraternity name: Krescent Fraternity; ca. 1927-1931 merged with Tarms (est. 1920)
Date organized: 1922
Date of national affiliation: 1928
Date closed: 2011 Disciplinary Conduct
Location and date of house(s): Original house on Porter St.; 1929 moved to Sullivan Lane; 1931 moved into house opposite Soles Hall (original Home of the Tarms)
Kappa Sigma
Chapter name: Delta Beta
Local fraternity name: Omega Delta Phi
Date organized: 1909
Date of national affiliation: 1921
Date closed: 1986 due to low membership
Location and date of house(s): Sullivan Lane; 1 East Campus Drive (1945); Four house quadrangle, Sullivan Lane (1963)
Krescent Fraternity — See Kappa Delta Rho
Order of Sphinx –See Alpha Sigma Delta
Phi Delta Theta
Chapter name: Pennsylvania Alpha
Local fraternity name:
Date organized: 1873
Date of national affiliation: 1873
Date closed: 1993 due to disciplinary action
Location and date of house(s): Behind Van Wickle Hall on Sullivan Lane
Phi Gamma Delta
Chapter name: Sigma Deuteron
Local fraternity name:
Date organized: 1883
Date of national affiliation: 1883
Date closed: 2010 Disciplinary Conduct
Location and date of house(s): East Campus, beside Soles Hall
Phi Kappa Psi
Chapter name: Theta
Local fraternity name:
Date organized: 1869
Date of national affiliation:
Date closed:
Location and date of house(s): Originally located on north end of Skillman Library; house physically moved to March Field, July 1, 1971
Phi Kappa Sigma
Chapter name: Gamma
Local fraternity name:
Date organized: 1853
Date of national affiliation: 1853
Date closed: 1882
Location and date of house(s):
Phi Kappa Tau
Chapter name: Alpha Omicron
Local fraternity name: Delta Sigma
Date organized: 1925; 1934 merged with Alpha Sigma Delta; 1956 severed ties with national so that it could pledge two black students, took Local fraternity name Delta Sigma; 1958 regained national charter
Date of national affiliation: 1928; 1936 deactivated; 1947 reactivated; 1956 resigned from national; 1958 reactivated
Date closed: September 1974 due to low membership
Location and date of house(s): High Street (prior to 1934); Sullivan Lane, prior home of Alpha Sigma Delta (1934); Occupied Faculty Club, McCartney St. and Clinton Terrace (1961); 225 Reeder Street (1963); 718 Hamilton Street (1972)
Phi Rho Sigma
Chapter name: Alpha
Local fraternity name:
Date organized: 1881
Date of national affiliation: 1881
Date closed: 1883
Location and date of house(s):
Pi Lambda Phi
Chapter name: Sigma
Local fraternity name: Towers
Date organized: 1925
Date of national affiliation: 1940
Date closed: 1982 due to low membership
Location and date of house(s): 32 Cattell Street; 500 Paxinosa Avenue (1937) ; Sullivan Lane (1946) ; 510 Cattell Street, currently the Lafayette Inn (1958)
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Chapter name: Gamma
Local fraternity name: Friars
Date organized: 1908
Date of national affiliation: 1919
Date closed: 1997 due to disciplinary action
Location and date of house(s): Cattell Street and Clinton Terrace; East Campus Drive; College Avenue, beside President’s House; Four house quadrangle, Sullivan Lane
Sigma Chi
Chapter name: Phi
Local fraternity name: Sigma Phi Chi (1966-1982)
Date organized: 1867; inactive 1888; re-established 1899
Date of national affiliation: 1867
Date closed: 1997 due to low membership
Location and date of house(s): 517 Clinton Terrace (ca. 1917-18); Corner of Reeder and High Streets, lost this house during World War II (1947); Former home of Dr. James Tupper, #5 East Campus (1947); Four house quadrangle, Sullivan Lane (1963); Clinton Terrace (1996)
Sigma Nu
Chapter name: Gamma Epsilon
Local fraternity name:
Date organized: 1900
Date of national affiliation: 1900
Date closed: 1995 due to disciplinary action
Location and date of house(s): 32 Cattell Street (1914); Top of College Avenue (1917)
Skull and Raven — See Delta Tau Delta
Tarms — See Kappa Delta Rho
Theta Chi
Chapter name: Alpha Omega|
Local fraternity name: Kappa Phi
Date organized: 1923
Date of national affiliation: 1930
Date closed: 2003
Location and date of house(s): 225 Reeder Street (1930); Four house quadrangle, Sullivan Lane (1963); 225 Reeder Street (1996)
Theta Delta Chi
Chapter name: Phi
Local fraternity name:
Date organized: 1867
Date of national affiliation: 1867; 1887 inactive;1890 reactivated
Date closed: 2001 due to disciplinary action
Location and date of house(s): West Campus, behind Kirby Hall
Theta Nu Epsilon
Chapter name: Nu
Local fraternity name: Sophomore Society; ONE
Date organized: 1885
Date closed: 1920
Location and date of house(s): Unknown
Theta Xi
Chapter name: Alpha Theta
Local fraternity name: Elms
Date organized: 1922
Date of national affiliation: 1931
Date closed: 1972 due to low membership
Location and date of house(s): 517 Clinton Terrace (1932-44); College Avenue; Four house quadrangle, Sullivan Lane (December 1962)
Towers — See Pi Lambda Phi
Upsilon Beta
Chapter name: Theta
Local fraternity name:
Date organized: 1868
Date of national affiliation: 1868
Date closed: ca. 1872-1873
Location and date of house(s):
Zeta Psi
Chapter name: Tau
Local fraternity name:
Date organized: 1857
Date of national affiliation: 1857
Date closed: 2014 suspended due to disciplinary action until November of 2018
Location and date of house(s): East Campus, College Drive (1912)
