Delta Upsilon Chapter House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

“Delta Upsilon Chapter House is a historic building located in Ames, Iowa, United States. It is considered one of the more imposing architectural examples among fraternity chapter houses at Iowa State University.”
Wikipedia article Delta Upsilon Chapter House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 37 National Register listings published here for Story County · listed in 2010 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 117 Ash Ave, Ames, 50014
When was it listed? November 2010
Category. building
Township. Washington township
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 10000919 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

29 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Delta Upsilon Chapter House between 2006 and 2020, burning about 93 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27
Smoking	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
24 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 June 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 June 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 May 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	615 ROOKWOD DR., AMES, IA
17 May 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 April 2018	Smoking	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Story County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Delta Upsilon Chapter House: 4 producers, 2 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bituminous, Sulfur-Pyrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Iowa State Univ. Coal Prep. Plant	Bituminous, Sulfur-Pyrite	Producer
Onion Creek Quarries	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Ames Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Ames Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Ames Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Old Roberson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Story County

Storms near this property

60 of 272 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ames, the town this property stands in, in 272 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 99 thunderstorm wind, 85 hail, 52 heavy rain, 18 flood. The reports record 9 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2005	Tornado (F1)	Ames	8 hurt, $150,000	A tornado touched down in the central Campas Area of ISU. Eight injuries occurred, one serious enough to require hospitalization.
November 2005	Tornado (F2)	Ames	1 hurt, $250,000	Tornado moved from Boone County into Story County. One minor injury occurred on the west side of Ames.
August 2010	Flood	Ames	$50,000,000	Hilton Coliseum reported 4 to 6 feet of water inside flooding the stadium and basketball floor. Cy Stephens Auditorium also reports water in the mechanical building up to the 1st floor.
August 2010	Flood	Ames	$1,000,000	no account filed
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Ames	$500,000	Story County Emergency Manager reports widespread significant tree damage in and around Ames. Some trees uprooted and others snapped off. Empty grain bins and outbuildings damaged across the county. A tree fell on a shed at Iowa State University.
August 2010	Flood	Ames	$500,000	no account filed
April 2007	Flood	Ames	$500,000	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Ames	$250,000	Several reports via TV and social media of golf ball hail in Ames.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Ames	$250,000	Garage doors were blown in with gutters torn off of an apartment complex in north Ames.
July 2000	Hail	Ames	$250,000	no account filed
June 1998	Flash Flood	Ames	$250,000	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Ames	$175,000	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Ames	$150,000	no account filed
June 2008	Flood	Ames	$100,000	no account filed
June 2008	Flood	Ames	$100,000	no account filed
April 2007	Flood	Ames	$100,000	no account filed
June 1999	Lightning	Ames	$100,000	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Ames	$100,000	no account filed
June 1998	Flood	Ames	$100,000	no account filed
June 1998	Flood	Ames	$70,000	no account filed
June 2018	Flash Flood	Ames	$50,000	WHO-TV, via social media, reported water roughly 2 to 3 feet deep on Grand Ave at the railroad underpass just north of Lincoln Way. Several cars were stalled out in the water.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Ames	$50,000	Damage report within two blocks of Bloomington Rd. and Grand Ave. Shingles off of house roofs, privacy fences down, apartment buildings lost partial balcony, traffic light pole bent over, and trees of one to two foot diameter snapped at bases.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Ames	$50,000	Wind damage reported to trees. Observer measured wind speed.
May 2013	Flood	Ames	$50,000	no account filed
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Ames	$50,000	no account filed
May 2008	Flood	Ames	$50,000	no account filed
March 2007	Flood	Ames	$50,000	no account filed
June 1998	Flood	Ames	$50,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Ames	$50,000	no account filed
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Ames	$50,000	no account filed
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Ames	$50,000	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Ames	$40,000	no account filed
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Ames	$30,000	Ames Police reported wall of a building pushed in about 6 feet, damage to the walls and doors, contents inside blown around, as well as trees down in the area. Time estimated from radar.
September 2016	Flash Flood	Ames	$30,000	Ames Police reported several streets throughout the town have deep enough water to cause multiple stalled vehicles.
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Ames	$30,000	no account filed
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Ames	$25,000	Large trees were uprooted along 13th street in Ames.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Ames	$25,000	A tree landed on a house and a car in the area of Nixon Circle in Ames. The tree damaged the gas line to the house.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Ames	$25,000	Wind speed measured at an Ames mesonet site.
August 2010	Flash Flood	Ames	$25,000	Story County Sheriff reports Highway 69 closed from Ames south to mile post 111 due to water over the road.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Ames	$25,000	Tree damage reported and power pole snapped.
May 2008	Flash Flood	Ames	$25,000	Water was reported over the road at the intersection of 180th and U.S. Highway 69.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Ames	$25,000	Ames police reported several large trees down along Country Club Blvd. One power pole was down with other damage near the corner of State and Mortenson roads.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Ames	$25,000	no account filed
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Ames	$25,000	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Ames	$25,000	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Ames	$25,000	no account filed
September 2016	Flash Flood	Ames	$20,000	Public reported stores along Stange Road starting to flood with water from out front.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Ames	$20,000	no account filed
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Ames	$20,000	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Ames	$20,000	no account filed
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Ames	$15,000	Large tree fell on staked down tents east of Jack Trice Stadium in Ames.
May 2008	Flood	Ames	$15,000	no account filed
September 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Ames	$15,000	no account filed
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Ames	$15,000	no account filed
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Ames	$15,000	no account filed
May 2019	Flood	Ames	$10,000	Emergency manager reported several locations in Ames have water over the road, including East Lincoln Way, Grand Ave, and Airport Road.
May 2018	Hail	Ames	$10,000	Public reported ping pong ball sized hail.
September 2016	Flash Flood	Ames	$10,000	Trained spotter reported College Creek on ISU campus out of its banks and has reached the base of Union Drive. Heavy rainfall still ongoing as of time of report.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Ames	$10,000	A 12 inch diameter tree blown down on a car.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Ames	$10,000	Trees and power lines blocking Riverside Road north of Ames.

Every storm recorded in Story County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Iowa Beta Chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon	0.2 miles	2014
Cranford Apartment Building	0.2 miles	2023
Gilmour B. and Edith Craig MacDonald House	0.3 miles	1992
Sigma Sigma-Delta Chi Fraternity House	0.4 miles	2008
Alumni Hall	0.4 miles	1978
Christian Petersen Courtyard Sculptures, and Dairy Industry Building	0.4 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000919 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Story County	All 37 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.