216 East Rosemary Street

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FRATERNITY HOUSE
c. 1920, c. 1935, 1950s, c. 1995
Constructed in stages, this fraternity house consists of a two-and-a-half-story, front-gabled wing on the right (west) connected to a two-story, front-gabled wing on the left (east) by a two-story side-gabled hyphen. The right wing is three bays wide and four bays deep and features a red-brick veneer, partial cornice returns, and yellow-brick quoins and window lintels. It has replacement windows throughout and paired windows on the first-floor façade have been replaced with paired ten-light French doors and are sheltered by a later, hip-roofed porch on paneled square columns. There are paired windows at the second- and third-floor levels and a half-round window in the front gable. A shed-roofed wall dormer on the right elevation, replaced gabled dormers on that elevation after 1992; it has an exit accessed by an exterior metal fire stair. The two-story, side-gabled hyphen is three bays wide with a stuccoed exterior, an interior brick chimney, and eight-over-eight wood-sash windows at the second floor. A six-panel door centered on the façade has a broken pediment surround and is flanked by replacement twenty-four-light fixed windows. A one-story, shed-roofed porch with front-gabled open pediment supported by paneled square posts extends the full width of the hyphen replacing an earlier, two-story, flat-roofed portico. It was constructed as a flat-roofed hyphen with two-story, flat-roofed portico, but the roof was raised and the porch changed between 1992 and 2002. The left, two-story, front-gabled wing is two bays wide with a red brick veneer, partial cornice returns, paired vinyl windows with soldier-course brick lintels, and a later, full-width, hip-roofed porch on paneled square columns. It has a half-round vent in the front gable, an exterior brick chimney and exterior metal fire stair on the left elevation, a two-story, gabled wing at the rear (south), and a one-story, flat-roofed wing beyond the gabled wing.

The left front-gabled building appears on the 1925 Sanborn map and the right, front-gabled building appears on the 1932 map. The buildings were connected between 1949 and 1974. The original two-story, flat-roofed portico on the hyphen was reconstructed in the current configuration between 1992 and 2002, at which time the one-story porches were added to the facades of both wings. It is currently used by the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity house, but was home to the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity from 1974 through 2002.

In the 2015 survey, this was deemed a Noncontributing Building.

SOURCE: Heather Wagner Slane, National Register of Historic Places Nomination: Chapel Hill Historic District Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation, Orange County, OR1750 (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office, 2015), courtesy of the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office.