| Baldwin House |
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| 1327 17th Street |
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| Timeline |
| 1958 |
Constructed as Esquire House |
| Jan. 9, 1960 |
Epsilon Zeta chapter founded |
| c.1960 |
Renamed Delta Tau Delta House |
| 1980s |
Served as Athletic Dorm |
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| Namesake |
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Joseph Baldwin
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Baldwin House is one of four small houses on Seventeenth Street. In the Residence Life naming system, Baldwin and the surrounding small houses were classified as "Four West."
The house was built for members of the men's social group, the Esquires, who later became members of the Epsilon Zeta chapter of Delta Tau Delta fraternity.
During the 1980s the house appeared on campus maps without an honorary name and dubbed only as "Residence Hall." It was also labeled as one of two "Athletic Dorms (presumably housing for football players utilizing nearby Pritchett Field). A 1993 campus map again identifies this as a fraternity house; by 1995 the house is shown with Baldwin’s name. It has since been used for upperclassmen housing. |
Sources:
Minutes from the Board of Regents, February 28, 1958
Vision Realized (1970)
The Caballero Years (1997) |
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Student housing became popular along 17th Street in the late-1950s to early-1960s, replacing landscaped residential areas. The western edge of Jackson-Shaver Hall and the eastern tip of the old bleachers at Pritchett Field can be seen in this aerial photograph; later, four small hosues and Adams Hall would be constructed in the area between. |
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Signage out front the building. |
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Here’s a holdover from past decades. Each building on campus is given a unique identification number by the physical plant; it’s just some buildings show off their numbers more prominently than others. We assume some of the buildings were known more by number than name in years past. |
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