Alpha Upsilon Chapter History
In the early 1900's a group of gentlemen formed an organization called the "Edgerton Men's Club." Later in 1925, these gentlemen were granted a charter for the Alpha Upsilon Chapter of the Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity. The founding members of our chapter first resided at 1642 Fairchild. Here the Men of Delta Sig began to cultivate the beginnings of our chapter. A few years down the road, the men of Delta Sig purchased and moved to another chapter house, located at 1707 Laramie. By this time, the Delta Sigs were making quite a name for themselves. The chapter was very involved with various activities on campus, and with each step of the way, the Men of Delta Sig were gaining quite the popularity vote. Then in 1955, a grand opportunity arose. The Sisters of Saint Mary closed the Parkview Hospital and put it up for sales, due to the opening of the newly constructed Riley County Memorial Hospital. This hospital is what would become known as one of the Delta Sig's icons to K-State and the community, the chapter house at Eleventh & Fremont.
1100 Fremont Building History
As far back as 1903, the Kansas State Agricultural College YMCA organization was discussing the construction of a new building. This movement was started by Willis W. McClean, and in March of 1904 a banquet was held to formally launch a fund raising campaign to raise the estimated $30,000 for construction.
The largest sum offered to this effort by a single person was $250, except for a $1000 anonymous donation. This was offered through the International Committee of the YMCA after the fund had reached $16,000. However, this was on condition that $5,000 more would be raised over the next three months. By mid-May 1907, construction was contracted out at a cost of $24,440.
The original floor plans included lockers, showers, boilers, a kitchen, and a dining room in the basement. The first floor contained various parlor rooms, a library, a combination lecture and game room, and a large reception hall. The second and third floors had nine rooms each to be rented out to students. On the west side of the building, a $10,000 gymnasium annex was planned.
In the late September 1908, a formal dedication ceremony was held in the newly built facility. 
At the time the YMCA had been built, the college did not have a gymnasium. When Mike Ahearn coached athletics, the YMCA building was headquarters of the college athletics department. The varsity basketball, indoor track, football, and baseball teams trained and practiced in this building. As well, all the varsity basketball games were played in the YMCA gymnasium. It is believed that the very first K-State vs. KU basketball game was played at the YMCA. However, after Nichols gymnasium was constructed, all of these activities were transferred to the new facility.
Besides its primary functions, the YMCA building served a dual purpose during World War I. After World War I broke out, the YMCA was used as a host home for parents visiting their sons who were enrolled in the Student Army Training Corps that was established on the K-State campus from 1917 to 1918.
By 1926 the board of directors decided that the building had outlasted its usefulness, and it was no longer fulfilling the purpose for which it was build. Six years earlier, the office of the general secretary had been moved to Anderson Hall. He discovered it was easier to get students to attend meetings of the college YMCA in the college buildings than in the Y-building. Also, estate funds had been nearly depleted. There were not enough dormitory rooms available to support the operating expenses of the building. Various contractors had been interviewed to renovate the building into a dormitory capable of supporting itself, but this seems impossible.
In early April 1926, final arrangements were made to sell the building to the Parkview Hospital Company of Manhattan for a cost of $3,500. The hospital association also assumed all the existing debts on the building and a small mortgage.
However, there were three stipulations in this transfer. First, the building had to be used as a hospital. Second, it had to be an open staff hospital where any graduate and licensed physician, surgeon or nurse could practice. The third stipulation was that the west wing (the old gymnasium) had to be made into a ward for the care of contagious and contact diseases. All cases prior had to be taken case of in the old pest house near the Union Pacific tracks, which was deemed very unsatisfactory.
The first hospital built in the Manhattan area was opened March 11, 1915 on the corner of Eleventh and Fremont. The Sisters of Saint Joseph acquired the Charlotte Swift Hospital on December 1, 1936 and named it the Saint Mary Hospital. On August 1, 1946 the Sisters of Saint Joseph purchased the Parkview Hospital for $34,500.
Then in 1955, the Parkview Hospital was closed after Riley County Memorial Hospital opened, and the Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity bought the building for a sum of $32,000. In May 1958 bids were opened for the demolition of the old gym which was replaced with the existing addition called "New Wing." The Alpha Upsilon Chapter of the Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity has resided at the corner of Eleventh and Fremont since that time with various structural changes having taken place. 
George & the Night Nurse Even though the building's structure has changed, one thing has remained the same...ghosts.
Form the period during which the building was a hospital, two stories has spring concerning poltergeists. One concerning a patient named George; and the other, a nurse.
While elderly patients were being moved into the new hospital, George rolled off his bed and became trapped between the bed frame and the wall. When an attendant checked the third floor room, he could not see George, and he assumed that George had already been moved. Unfortunately, the oversight sealed George's fate. He dies during the night.
Even though George has never been seen, he has been credited for many bizarre activities. He has reportedly turned lights on and off, opened locked doors and windows, and used the third floor hallway as a bowling alley. He has also helped out by repairing broken clocks through the house.
Additionally, George seems to be a fan of Star Trek. In 1973 there was an ice storm, and the electricity was out in the neighborhood. However, everyday at four in the afternoon, the electricity would come back on in the house and stay on until Star Trek was over, but no other house around had electricity.
While George was heard and not seen, the nurse has been seen but not heard. The nurse died when she was backing a cart into what she thought was an open elevator. When she backed through, she fell to the bottom of the shaft and died. The nurse used to walk the first floor hall at night carrying her medicine tray in one hand and candle in the other. The woman has not been seen since the late 1960's after she discovered that the new owners of the building were not in the business of providing health care.
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