Built in 1915 as a private home, the house was purchased by the Kappa Chapter of the Alpha Xi Delta sorority in 1928.

Architect Joseph W. Royer designed the house in the Tudor Revival style.

The house's design features vertical half-timbering on the upper stories, decorative brickwork on the first floor, two steep cross gables and multiple dormers projecting from the roof, and multiple brick chimneys.

[2] The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 28, 1989.

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