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Creager House
 
Creager House
1327 A 17th Street
Map | ID#: 0131
Timeline:
1958 Constructed as Pica House [1]
Unit H (M-2) Tex-41-CH-69 [1,2]
Feb. 11, 1961 Epsilon Psi chapter founded
c.1960 Renamed Sigma Chi House
19xx Renamed for Creager
Namesake:
W. Truett Creager
 
Architect:
Unknown
 
Contractor(s):
Unknown
News feed:
Creager House is a student residence located near the intersection of Avenue N and 17th Street, west of main campus.

Residence Life classifies the two-story small house as a part of "Four West."

A 1958 document identifies this as the Pica House [1]. By the mid-1960s the building housed members of the men's social group, the Caballeros, who later became members of the Epsilon Psi chapter of Sigma Chi fraternity.

Once the fraternity moved off campus the house was open to upperclassmen.

Photographs
Baldwin 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.
Creager House Signage out front the building.
 

Sources:
Vision Realized (1970)
The Caballero Years (1997)
[1] Minutes from the Board of Regents; February 28, 1958 [note]
[2] SHSC Revenue Bond Buildings (c.1965)
 
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