{"nrhp_refnum":"90002144","name":"Deke House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"13 South Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ithaca","county":"Tompkins County","state":"NY","lat":42.44456964600005,"lon":-76.48733482699998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-01-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Deke House (Hall of DKE) is a three-story Romanesque Revival fraternity lodge at 13 South Avenue in Ithaca, New York, on the southwest edge of the Cornell University campus. It was built in 1893 to designs by William Henry Miller, with an east wing added in 1910.","why_significant":"The truncated text contains no Section 8 statement of significance. The description stresses the lodge's very high architectural and functional integrity. It has been used continuously as a chapter house for the Delta Chi chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon, and its 1906 and 1910 additions match the original Romanesque Revival design. It is built of St. Lawrence marble and holds notable memorial stained glass.","narrative":"Deke House, also called the Hall of DKE, is a three-story fraternity lodge at 13 South Avenue in Ithaca, on the southwest edge of the Cornell University campus. Architect William Henry Miller designed it in 1893 in the Romanesque Revival style, using pitch-faced St. Lawrence marble from Gouverneur, New York. A conical-roofed round tower rises 74 feet. Miller also designed a south porch in 1906, and Arthur Norman Gibb designed a matching east wing in 1910, giving the building an L-shaped plan. Inside, the ground floor holds a main hall, reception room, parlor, library and refectory. Memorial fireplace mantels and opalescent stained-glass windows attributed to Frederic Stymetz Lamb commemorate fraternity members. Two Norway spruce trees planted by Theodore Roosevelt in 1899 stand at the entrance. The building was conceived as a lodge for the Delta Chi chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon and has served that purpose continuously. The form describes its architectural and functional integrity as extremely high.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"William Henry Miller (1893 house and 1906 south porch); Arthur Norman Gibb (1910 east wing)","architectural_style":"Romanesque (Romanesque Revival), with Queen Anne Revival elements in the roof and half-timbering","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as used exclusively and without interruption (except in wartime) as a fraternity lodge since its erection; the form lists the current function as social clubhouse and institutional domestic use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.12006-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/90002144.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90002144/6b61ff30fb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90002144/6b61ff30fb-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Hlevy2","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Deke_House_(Ithaca_NY).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Hlevy2</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:Deke_House_(Ithaca_NY).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322483","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deke_House_(Ithaca,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5252781"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/tompkins-county/deke-house-90002144/"}