THE BETA HOUSE 44 THE BETA THETA PI
Photo Credit: Grant Martin, ’67
THE
BETA HOUSE INSIDE PURDUE
by Justin Warren, SMU ’10
RECOLONIZATION INSPIRES CLASSIC BETA MAKEOVER
In 1927, Albert Arbogast, Purdue ’29, and Luzern Weileman, Purdue ’29, authored a front-page story in The Beta Theta Pi, painting a vivid picture of the Fraternity’s newest crown jewel: a four-story home situated along a bluff in West Lafayette, Indiana, that would house the Beta Mu Chapter at Purdue University. In their article, “Beta Mu’s New Home,” the men describe an estate with a great manorial hall occupying both the basement and first floor, a fully functioning telephone booth and extravagant furniture and draperies colored in gold and deep red. Altogether, such a project required an investment of $110,000.