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- Antebellum and Civil War · 1800–1865
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Beta Theta Pi charters its Eta chapter at the university
The Eta chapter of Beta Theta Pi was chartered in early 1852, the third fraternity at Chapel Hill.
Subject: Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House
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Beta Theta Pi's Eta chapter goes inactive
After a strong start the Eta chapter lapsed in 1859 as the Civil War approached.
Subject: Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House
- Reconstruction and the New South · 1866–1899
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Beta Theta Pi is reestablished at UNC and takes in the Mystical Seven chapter
The Eta chapter was revived in 1884, absorbing the Star of the South chapter of the Mystical Seven, once the strongest fraternity in the South.
Subject: Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House
- Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
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Beta Theta Pi builds a house on the original Fraternity Row
The Eta chapter put up its first house at the edge of campus on Fraternity Row in 1905, which brought the chapter a run of growth until World War I.
Subject: Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House
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George Pickard's heirs sell their Columbia Street house and lot to Beta Theta Pi
The fraternity paid $25,000 for the late George Pickard's house and large lot, a private parcel off the university courts that later let it build a bigger house with a deep lawn.
Subject: Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House
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Beta Theta Pi sells its Fraternity Row house to Delta Sigma Pi and moves into the Pickard house
The chapter sold its old house to Delta Sigma Pi and put twenty members in the Pickard house on Columbia Street while it planned a new building.
Subject: Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House
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The Beta Theta Pi fraternity house is completed on South Columbia Street
The Beta Theta Pi house at 114 South Columbia Street, apart from the fraternity courts, is a brick house laid in Flemish bond with a slate roof and dormers, a Doric portico across the front and wings on each side, set back on a wide lawn.
Subject: Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House
- Civil rights era · 1945–1975
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Beta Theta Pi builds a social hall annex and remodels its house
In 1962 the chapter put up a frame social hall behind the house, enclosed the porte cochere, raised the south wing to match the north wing, and replaced the main stair.
Subject: Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House
- Recent decades · 1976–2026
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Beta Theta Pi alumni begin renovating the chapter house
Following an alumni capital campaign, work began in 1997 to bring the 1929 house up to code while keeping its plan and original materials; architect and Beta alumnus Arthur Cogswell Jr. led it, and the Betas were the first fraternity to add a sprinkler system after the 1996 fire.
Subject: Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House
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A tie vote keeps Person Hall off the Study List
UNC's campus preservation specialist Paul Kapp asked that Person Hall, already a contributing building in the Chapel Hill Historic District, be recognized on its own. Staff doubted how much of what was visible predated a 1977 renovation and urged the university to treat its old buildings as a district. On February 13, 2003 a motion to place the hall on the Study List split three to three, the chair voted no, and the committee deferred it; the Beta Theta Pi house was also deferred to await a possible Fraternity Court district.
Subject: Person Hall · Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House
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The Beta Theta Pi house joins the Study List
The National Register Advisory Committee placed the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house in Chapel Hill on North Carolina's Study List, its list of properties likely to qualify for the National Register.
Subject: Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House
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The Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House is listed in the National Register
On April 20, 2005 the National Park Service listed the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House in Chapel Hill in the National Register of Historic Places.
Subject: Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House
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