The New Old Yellow House
Have you ever walked by the yellow house next to the Sullivan Center and wondered about its history?
The house was built in 1916 by George Washington Maher, a student of Frank Lloyd Wright. Mundelein College bought the house in 1965 as a bankruptcy purchase, and it eventually became the Mundelein College President's House. In 1993 it became the Loyola University Chicago Alumni Center. In honor of Loyola's 100-year anniversary as a university, the yellow house has been rechristened the Burrowes House after Alexander Burrowes, S.J., Loyola's president from 1908 to 1912. Father Burrowes oversaw the formal incorporation of Loyola as a chartered university, the beginnings of the medical and law schools, and the founding of the Lake Shore Campus.