Today, this quaint, Baroque-style building serves as a pottery studio and design classroom. But when it was first built in 1926, it was home to Alpha Gamma Chi, one of seven fraternity or "secret society" houses that sprouted up on campus in the early 20th century. Tolerated but never fully embraced by the administration, these societies played an important role in student life until they were abolished in 1950. From the 1950s through the 1970s, the building was used as a grill and student snack bar that was affectionately known as "The Beanery."