Triangle House
1881 (demolished 1963)
3222 South Michigan Avenue
This building was the former home of James P. Marsh, owner of an eponymous industrial instrument manufacturing company in Skokie, Illinois. The Triangle Fraternity began renting this building in 1923 or 1924, purchasing the building in 1925.
Formerly/Also Known As: Marsh residence (1881-1923)
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Names:
Triangle House: "Second Fraternity House Now Underway," The Technometer, April, 1959, 2.
Marsh residence: Lieberman, Marc, "Frat Row Rises From Old Wentworth Holding," Technology News, April 8, 1960, 6.
Dates:
Illinois Institute of Technology, Office of the President, Annual Report of the President, 1963-64 (Chicago: Illinois Institute of Technology, 1964), 52.
"Second Fraternity House Now Underway," 2.
Armour Institute of Technology, "Fraternities," The Armour Engineer XVI, no. 4, May 1925, 158.
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