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Historical marker location:

300 W. 27th, Austin, Texas

( (Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house))

Marker installed: 1972

Colonial Revival mansion built 1902 by Austin financier Louis Nicholas Goldbeck. Sold 1908 to Texas Association of Phi Gamma Delta, national fraternity first chartered in Texas in 1856. Housing Tau Deuteron chapter, this has been campus residence of men who became statesmen and cultural and business leaders. Financing for property cam from many friends, with notable gifts from family of university regent and alumnus H. J. Lutcher Stark. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1972.

fraternal organizations Colonial Revival (architectural style) houses residential buildings