2 Ridgewood Road

From the early days of the university, the number of fraternities at Cornell has been exceptional--a result of an early administrative decision by university president and co-founder, Andrew Dickson White, that the university not provide dormitory facilities for men. The Albany Argus, in a special supplement on Cornell fraternities published in 1899, noted that “Probably at no college or university in the country are Greek letter fraternities more numerous than at Cornell, numbering with the sororities about thirty.” This unusual, Moorish-influenced house was built in 1921 for Phi Delta Theta fraternity, which has occupied it ever since.

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