Matthews House

With a square structure and no front porch, the Matthews House was built in a Southern Georgian style. The wood-structure, two-story building was named after its owner Mrs. Dudley Matthews, whose husband attended Rollins’ School of Music in 1909-10. Originally leased in the 1930s, Matthews House provided housing for the sorority Alpha Phi. In 1956, Rollins purchased the property and added to the campus as men’s housing. Five years later it was converted to a senior honor house, where women seniors of outstanding grades lived in the house on their own. When the program discontinued in 1963, Matthews House was simply a women’s dormitory for the ensuing years, especially after the Cloverleaf Cottage was demolished. In 1987, when the Fred Stone theatre had to be relocated to make way for the construction of the new Cornell Center for the Social Sciences, Matthews House was demolished after decades of services to Rollins College.