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 [166]." 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.