172.962.4

Phi Kappa Psi, an Iowa State College Fraternity, formed its local Iowa Beta Chapter in 1913. It established its residence in this house on the northwest corner of Fifth Street and Grand Avenue (505 Grand Avenue). By the early 1920s, Phi Kappa Psi had moved into a house in the campus area on Lynne Avenue. This house on Grand was razed in 1978 or 1979 to make way for the construction of the Pyle Office Building in 1979. The house to the immediate north (507 Grand) was the home of George Hultz whose daughter Gladys grew up there. As Galdys Hultz Meads, whe published an oral history of early Ames called "At the Squaw and the Skunk." The Hultz home was razed in 1984 when the Pyle enterprise was expanded and became Pyle Office Park. (See also: 172.963.1-2)