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Gibbs House
1619 Avenue J
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1956 Constructed as Anne Gibbs Society House
Apr. 18, 1959 Zeta Theta chapter founded
1959 Renamed Delta Zeta House
1990 Delta Zeta sorority disbands
c.1990 Renamed Gibbs House
 
Namesake
Anne Nugent Gibbs

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Gibbs House is one of the eight small houses on Sorority Hill, located on the north side of campus.

The building originally housed members of the Anne Gibbs Society, founded in the fall of 1925 as one of the various social societies that existed on campus "to promote friendship, scholarship, tolerance and a spirit of service [1]."

In 1959, the club became the Delta Zeta sorority, the first national sorority to install a chapter on the Sam Houston campus and the seventh collegiate chapter of the sorority in Texas.

After the sorority disbanded, the house reverted to a name honoring Gibbs. Today the house is a coed residence for upperclassmen.


Sources:
[1] Vision Realized (1970), p. 166
Minutes from the Board of Regents; February 28, 1958
Carla Hamblin, DZ National Office
The Lamp of Delta Zeta, Autumn 1959
Gibbs House An aerial photograph from the early 1900s reveals how close the city of Huntsville sat next to Sam Houston Normal Institute.
Gibbs House Looking west through Sorority Hill toward Elliott Hall.
Gibbs House Signage out front the building.
 
 
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