St. Anthony Hall
434 Riverside Drive | Morningside Heights | built 1899
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- 1897
Delta Psi's Alpha chapter buys the Riverside Drive lot
Columbia's Alpha chapter of Delta Psi, the fraternity known as St. Anthony Hall, bought the Riverside Drive property from Harriet B. Hale on March 23, 1897, the year after Columbia moved to Morningside Heights. The purchase made it one of the first fraternities to plant a permanent home near the new campus.
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- 1899
Hornbostel and Palmer complete a Beaux-Arts fraternity house
Architects Henry Hornbostel and George Carnegie Palmer, the latter a chapter member, designed a five-story brick and limestone clubhouse in Beaux-Arts and French Renaissance Revival style. Completed in 1899 for about $80,000, contemporary press called it the best-appointed fraternity building yet erected, with a library, a ballroom, and a marble fireplace inside.
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- 1996
St. Anthony Hall is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The chapter house at 434 Riverside Drive was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 26, 1996, nearly a century after its completion. The listing recognized the building as an early example of a purpose-built fraternity residence constructed for Columbia's move uptown.
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- 2008
A chandelier inside the house becomes Vampire Weekend's album cover
A Polaroid photo of a chandelier inside St. Anthony Hall, taken at one of the band's early campus shows, became the cover image for Vampire Weekend's self-titled debut album, released January 29, 2008. The image tied the Columbia-born band permanently to the Riverside Drive clubhouse where they had played.
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Further reading
- Delta Psi, Alpha Chapter buildingWikipedia
- The 1899 St. Anthony Hall - 434 Riverside DriveDaytonian in Manhattan
- This might be the most beautiful and historic fraternity house in New York CityEphemeral New York
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