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The Centennial Anniversary of Sigma Gamma Rho: A Historical Look at the Sorority and Butler University

The D. C. Stephenson House

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The D. C. Stephenson House
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In 1923 D. C. Stephenson bought a house in the town of Irvington on the east side of Indianapolis. Built in 1889 the house sat within walking distance to the Butler University campus and had previously served as the home of a Civil War colonel’s family and later the house for Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority. Stephenson remodeled the home, primarily adding a front portico with four two-story columns, to resemble the Ku Klux Klan’s national headquarters located in Atlanta, Georgia. The house is now on the National Register of Historic Places as the William H. H. Graham House and is privately owned.
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Butler University
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