Sigma Nu leaves 60 year old house
The Sigma Nu house has been deserted.
No, there has not been a bomb scare or a walk-out. The Sigma Nus have vacated their house so a $325,000 addition can be built.
Included in the addition will be new housemother quarters, a recreation room, sleeping dorms and chapter rooms. The study rooms will be decreased from four-and-five-man rooms to two and three man rooms and lounges will be added to each floor.
"WE MADE additions to the present house rather than build a new one because of its tradition," Chip Goldwasser, St. Louis junior, said.
Built by Kansas Gov. Roscoe Stubbs in 1907, the house and 28-acre plot were purchased by the Sigma Nus in 1922 for $52,000. At that time they moved from 1246 Oread.
Until 1961, the house and estate comprised the largest fraternal estate in the nation. At that time, the fraternity sold part of the estate to West Hills, Inc.
The house's site has become known as Windmill Hill because legend has it that two Swedes
once built a windmill there. The windmill survived Quantrill's raid only to be destroyed by fire in 1905.
THE ADDITION will be dedicated to Dick Williams, Sigma Nu alumnus and financer of the house. All the present rooms have been dedicated to noted alumni.
With the exception of furniture in the front room and chairs in the dining room, all the furnishings will be sold at public auction, probably next week, Goldwasser said.
Meanwhile the Sigma Nus have moved to Naismith Hall where they occupy the second and ninth floors.
"The people at Naismith have been very congenial," Goldwasser said. "They have gone out of their way to be helpful."
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HOLLYWOOD—(UPI)—Sebastian Cabot, recovering from surgery, returns to the "Family Affair" series in which he was temporarily replaced by English actor John Williams.
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