Sigma Nu - University of Maine, Orono, Maine B43

Sigma Nu - University of Maine, Orono, Maine B43

Sigma Nu fraternity house on or near the campus of the University of Maine at Orono. The building's collonaded verandah with its arched openings and the low, hipped roof with broad overhangs identifies it as an Italianate Classical Revival Style structure built in the early 20th century. The University of Maine plans to demolish the century-old Sigma Nu fraternity house this summer after the housing corporation that owns the run-down structure hands over ownership. The house overlooking College Avenue and the Stillwater River was built in 1916 for the brothers of Sigma Nu, which chartered a chapter on campus three years earlier at Maine’s land grant university. [2016]