HOUSE & HOME M A home at the Mother of Fraternities William Shideler was one of the four founders Kappa Tan Fraternity PI KAPPA PHI PROPERTIES Properties have pursued a number of For almost a decade it was a fraternity continues to acquire chapter homes opportunities to purchase fraternity house before being purchased by geology for Pi Kappa Phi chapters around the houses with little success, until this professor William Shideler, who lived country. In June, Pi Kappa Phi Properties summer's acquisition, which will be the in the property until the late 1950s. The purchased a 50-bed chapter house on the chapter home for many years to come. university owned the property for a time Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) campus The chapter moved into the property this and leased the land to Acacia Fraternity to house our Eta Upsilon Chapter. semester after some initial construction in the 1960s. Soon after, Acacia Fraternity Since the chapter's chartering in 1996, repair work over the summer. acquired the property and land and Eta Upsilon has leased a small 24-bed According to the City of Oxford, the enlarged the house with a two-story chapter house near campus from a local chapter's new home comes with great addition to the rear of the building. property management company. Now the history. Also known as the David Swing For more information about the 115 man chapter will have a permanent House No. 3, this brick residence with property, please contact Pi Kappa home on the campus, one that has a rich Italianate elements was built by David Phi Properties by emailing them at Fraternity history. Swing, a Miami University graduate who properties@pikapp.org returned to Oxford to teach after studying The Miami University campus is known as the "Mother of Fraternities," theology in Cincinnati. The home was as it is home to the founding chapters of built in 1862 as a single family residence. national fraternities Beta Theta Pi, Phi The "No. 3" designation comes from the PI KAPPA PHI Delta Theta, Sigma Chi and Phi Kappa fact that it was the third residence Swing PROPERTIES Tau, as well as the sorority Delta Zeta. built on campus. Coincidentally, it was Ownership of a permanent structure at also located on lot #3 of Campus Avenue. The Pi Kappa Phi Properties staff consults chapters This house was the grandest of the three. and provides asset management services in third-party such a storied institution has been a long It was the home to the growing family of leasing relationships with local real estate partners and process for Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity and Elizabeth (Porter) and David Swing until at many universities across the country. Properties Eta Upsilon Chapter. the Swings moved to Chicago in 1866, also provides support to alumni-corporation-owned In recent years, the Eta Upsilon properties and operates a national loan program where Rev. Swing became a nationally through the Stephen P. DePalma Infrastructure Loan Housing Corporation and Pi Kappa Phi known minister. Fund and the Housing Investment Fund. UPDATE US ON YOUR LIFE: PIKAPP.ORG/SUBMITNEWS 29