Omega's Georgian Colonial House and News - The Rattle, January 1930
As appeared in The Rattle - January 1930
Georgian Colonial
Georgian colonial is the type of architecture of Omega's new house which is being built on the corner of Allen and Prospect Streets, State College, Pennsylvania. The house is built of dark red brick, intermixed with black iron brick, and the white mortar is pointed rough. The building is three stories high viewed from the front and northern end, and four stories high from the rear and southern end. The front faces on Allen Street in a well kept residential block. The southern end of the house furnishes an unique aspect. At the ground level a terrace appears under straight arches topped with limestone keystones. Behind this terrace are two sets of French doors that open into the dining room which is on this level. Above this terrace and extending over its entirety is a porch from which may be seen without any obstruction of the view, Mt. Nittany, its beautiful widespread valley, and the Bald Eagle Range.
Georgian Colonial for Omega at Pennsylvania State
The dining room, kitchen, chapter, maid's, trunk, and boiler rooms are on the first floor, which is at ground elevation in the back and southern end, and one story below ground elevation in the front and at the northern end of the house. In the dining room, which will have a capacity for fifty persons, there are four sets of French doors, two sets leading onto the terrace, and two sets onto the back lawn, A huge fireplace is placed between the two sets of these doors off the terrace, and terrazza floor completely covers the room.
The second floor of the building is the main floor, and its front is at ground elevation. The front entrance opens into a vestibule and then into a large reception hall. To the right of this hall is a spacious club room. A set of French doors open on either side of a fireplace onto the porch which covers the lower terrace. Behind the reception hall is a card room, and to the left of the hall is a good-sized library. The guest room is entered through the library.
The third and fourth floors each have ten rooms and a bath. Two men will live in each room, giving a rooming capacity of forty. The rooms are sufficiently large, and will be furnished with two desks, two desk chairs, a double-deck bed, one easy chair, and a chest of drawers. There is a built-in closet for each man, and on one of the closet doors will be a mirror.
John A. Irwin, '16, president of Theta Chi of Penn State, Inc., has directed and managed the entire building program. Norman C. Horner, '16, treasurer of the corporation, and Walter B. Shaw, '21, vice president, devised and managed the financial scheme used. W. C. Thompson, '20, secretary of the corporation, has taken care of legal matters.