Though fraternities were banned from campus from 1897 to 1928, university administrators had adopted, by the 1950s, a different perspective on the Greek organizations. Wanting to keep fraternities on campus, the university offered to build a residence hall quad with rooms for social events, chapter activities and house mothers. Thirteen fraternities moved into the completed quad, located south of Longstreet and bordered by Sumter and Blossom streets and named for former alumnus and Carolina president John M. McBryde. Several units were demolished in 2009 to make room for the Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections Library, an annex attached to the rear of the Thomas Cooper Library.
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