herbert k. abrams building former sig ep house?

Also the transitional office next to Phi Delt

Greek housing at the UA was divided into four blocs 20 years ago:

1. Greek Row: middle of campus houses - all of the current sorority houses plus ATO (where Sammy is now), Dchi (where ZBT is now), Fiji, SAE, Sigma Chi, TKE, AOPi, Zeta, SDT

2. Northside: around Banner and where AEPi & Pike are now - AEPi, AKL, Chi Phi, Delt, Lambda Chi, Phi Sig, Pike, Sig Ep, Sigma Nu, Chi O, Sigma Kappa

3. West: mostly off of University between Tyndall and 4th Ave - AGR, Beta, KA, Sammy, ZBT

4. South: below 6th street, walking distance from the football stadium - Kappa Sig, Phi Delt, Phi Psi

Pretty interesting how the sororities have mostly stayed put while the fraternities have moved around, come and gone a bunch. The south bloc frats were pretty weak, grungy and out of the way, so people didn't like going to parties there. I think they have all been either torn down or converted into apartment complexes. Most were apartment/multi-unit dwellings to begin with anyway. The west side houses were all right. Not many of them, but they were in a pretty nice area in walking distance of University Blvd. The north frats were a little bit of a hike, but there was a good concentration of Greek life. Many of those houses raged hard and faded. Most were demolished when the frats moved out.

Amazing how things can change over a couple of decades. Our Greek system seemed a lot bigger back then. I hope we will see it grow and thrive again.

KA was actually Theta Chi

not sure what you mean. theta chi's beta-iota chapter wasn't at arizona at all in the 90's. we got kicked in the early 70's and came back in the fall of 2011 for a little while in ka's house but we didn't own it.

Theta Chi use to own what is now KA's house back in the 70's.

There are probably photos in those old yearbooks like someone mentioned above, or house photos may be in old rush books with each fraternity. It's too bad IFC doesn't collect and archive the rush photos and fraternity portraits.

Also, I don't know if I would say the area north of campus (around the Banner facilities today) was the place to be 20 years ago. The northside fraternities had more of a rep for being kind of "rough and tumble", maybe because they were a cluster of frats/dudes all in one neighborhood with a culture of drinking hard, hazing and fighting.

However, none of the north, west or south houses held a candle to the row. Greek row was the spot. The only exception was Sig Ep... they were unquestionably a top frat at the time and used to partner up with ATO, Fiji and SAE all the time which made them sort of a Greek row house. Pike and Delt were also good, but they were more midsize and a step or two down from Sig Ep and the Greek row frats. But even the "bottom tier" houses up north like AKL, Sigma Nu, Lambda Chi, etc. were known to party and haze hard.

The only weak houses on the row at the time were TKE & Phi Sig, but TKE got in trouble right after their built went up and Phi Sig had financial trouble and moved around from south of campus to the row to the northside to dechartered within a few years. But the rest were really strong. And even Pike and Kappa Sig didn't get really good until they moved onto campus

I also heard that Greek row at the U of A used to be all sororities from like the 1950s through the 70s, with the frats up north and west. Then in the 70s and 80s some of the frats started moving onto the row. I'm not sure if it's true, but that might explain why there were so many frat houses up near Banner.

Most to the frats in the 50s-70s were on speedway before it got renovated

This is right. The Greek Row was always a mix of fraternities and sororities. Three rows, Speedway Blvd., First St., and Second St. Several fraternity chapter houses were also on Park Ave., Tyndall Ave., and Third St. before Third was renamed to University Blvd.

When the UA expanded most of those houses were demolished and turned into classrooms, dormitories, or parking lots. The fraternities were pushed further North, West, and South of campus away from the Greek Row. So it got more spread out.