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Mallon House
1319 17th Street ID#
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1958 Constructed
Unit K-1 Tex-41-CH-90 [1]
Sep.27, 1959 Gamma Tau chapter founded
c.1959-60 Renamed Kappa Alpha House
1980s Served as Athletic Dorm
19xx Renamed for Mallon (by c.1980)
 
Namesake
Barnard Mallon

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Mallon House is one of four small houses on Seventeenth Street. In the Residence Life naming system, Mallon and the surrounding small houses were classified as "Four West."

The house was built for members of the men's social group, the Ravens, who later became members of the Gamma Tau chapter of the Kappa Alpha fraternity.

During the 1980s the house appeared on campus maps as Mallon House, but also as one of two "Athletic Dorms" (presumably housing for football players utilizing nearby Pritchett Field).


Sources:
Vision Realized (1970)
The Caballero Years (1997)
[1] SHSC Revenue Bond Buildings (c.1965)
Mallon House 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.
Mallon House Today the "rear entrance" of Mallon House exits out into an empty parking lot.
Mallon House Signage out front the building.
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