{"nrhp_refnum":"82002419","name":"Omega Chapter of the Chi Phi Fraternity","other_names":["Georgia Tech Chi Phi House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"720 Fowler St., NW","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.774314908000065,"lon":-84.39382729399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-06-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick fraternity house at 720 Fowler Street, N.W., in Atlanta, Georgia, beside the Georgia Tech campus. It was built in 1928 to designs by architect William Parsons.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house matters for its role in Atlanta's local and Georgia Tech social history and for its architecture. It was purpose-built as a fraternity house and has stayed in that use, and it is a good example of the eclectic Tudor style common for 1920s fraternity houses. Its Fowler Street location also drew other fraternities to the area near Peters' Park.","narrative":"Built in 1928 at 720 Fowler Street, N.W., beside the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta, this two-story brick fraternity house has a steeply pitched, dormered slate roof and a gabled entrance bay with a Tudor-arched doorway. Inside, a spiral staircase rises from the basement to the attic, and the living room has a painted, beamed ceiling. A rear addition of 1955 added a kitchen and sleeping rooms. Architect William Parsons, a 1922 Georgia Tech graduate and Chi Phi member, designed the house in a modified Tudor style that echoes the campus buildings next door. It was the second building at Georgia Tech constructed specifically as a fraternity house, and its location helped pull other fraternities toward the Fowler Street area near Peters' Park. The chapter, founded in 1903, counted many prominent Atlantans among its members. The house still serves its original purpose as a social center for the chapter.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"William Parsons, architect","architectural_style":"Tudor eclectic (modified Tudor)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still in use as a fraternity house and social center for its members; the form lists condition as fair and altered, with a 1955 rear addition and an enclosed porch.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.356616-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/82002419.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002419/be668b42d0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002419/be668b42d0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"DXR","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chi_Phi_Fraternity,_Georgia_Tech,_Atlanta_20160717_1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">DXR</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chi_Phi_Fraternity,_Georgia_Tech,_Atlanta_20160717_1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208282","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Chapter_of_the_Chi_Phi_Fraternity","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104866008"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/omega-chapter-of-the-chi-phi-fraternity-82002419/"}