The History of Alpha Delta Phi

- 1832 - Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity is founded at Hamilton College
- 1846 - Peninsular Chapter founded at U of M
- 1875 - Peninsular Chapter begins renting first chapter house.
- 1880 - Current lot purchased
- 1883 - First fraternity house in Ann Arbor is built at 556 S. State
- 1910 - Current chapter house is built at 556 S. State
- 1918 - House used as barracks in war effort
- 1943 - House used again as barracks for WWII

- Alpha Delta Phi is currently the second oldest fraternal organization on campus

Famous Alumni:
Peninsular Chapter:
- William R. Day (1870) - Secretary of State and Supreme Court Justice
- Neil Snow (1902) - All American running back and tremendous athelete
Other Chapters:
- Salmon P. Chase (Dartmouth 1826) - Secretary of the Treasury and Chief Justice in U.S. Supreme Court
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (Harvard 1904) - President of the United States
- Theodore Roosevelt (Harvard 1880) - President of the United States
- Samuel Hopkins Adams (Hamilton 1891) - Author
- Philip Barry (Yale 1918) - Author
- Charles W. Eliot (Harvard 1853) - President of Harvard University
- Thomas B. Ridd (Hamilton 1921) - President of Hamilton College
- MacDonald Carey (Wisconsin 1935) - Actor
- Monte Woolley (Yale 1911) - Actor
- Dr. Frederick M. Allen (California 1902) - Pioneer in Diabetes
- John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (Brunonian 1897) - Financier and Philanthropist
- Allan Sproul (California 1919) - Director Kaiser Aluminium

Pictures:

One brother's bedroom in the early years of the house

The brothers in front of the house in ~1941

The main room in ~1930-40's

The library in the same era

The outside of the house in the same era

Another view of the house

A party during the 80's

The winners of the first annual in-house vs. out-of-house actives V-ball tourney

Formal - 1989

The brothers in the main room in the early 1990's

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