After the Bellflower House was sold in 1968, the chapter moved into 1575 Mistletoe Drive. The move was supposed to be a temporary one until a fraternity house was completed for us as part of CWRU’s plans for a large complex of fraternity houses on the south side of campus. Those plans were eventually abandoned before the complex was finalized, so our temporary house became somewhat more permanent.

While the Housing Corporation had sought a long term lease for the property, CWRU eventually announced that the house was to be torn down. After negotiations (and recovery of the records of the original proceeds of the sale of the Bellflower house), the chapter was able to sign a long term lease at 11136 Magnolia Drive. With a lot of work from the brothers, the chapter moved everything to the new house over Spring Break and took up residency at their new address.

Dudley Case (1971) shares some of his memories of the Mistletoe House:

Most of the first year (1968/1969) in the Mistletoe house was spent cleaning the wall to wall carpet, wood floors, bathrooms and making minor repairs all over the house. We also cleaned out the basement and the screened porch on the north side of the house and put up the Beta Nu of Theta Chi sign from the Halle House in the front yard. CWRU also repaired some of the leaded glass windows on the front stair landing between the first and second floors. The library room in the basement was also turned into our chapter meeting room and game room, since a number of the brothers played bridge and chess.

We had a really nice slate pool table in the south side glass enclosed sunroom, where Dave Boylan (Chapter President) used to take on all challengers and usually beat everyone in the chapter.

During our second year (1969/1970) in the house the dining room was refurbished by sanding and varnishing the wood floor, wall papering all the walls with red embossed wallpaper, and then repainting all the white woodwork. This way the dining room reflected the Theta Chi colors of red and white. Also, during this time the Phi Kappa Zeta sorority from Perkins House helped us repaint the living room and front entrance room.

We all became somewhat careful when doing laundry in the basement, because a couple of us had seen a very large rat snake crawl from the driveway into the foundation of the house right by the laundry room.

Up in the attic of the house we had about 15 spring beds and mattresses that we used when actives from other chapters visited our chapter.

Sometime during 1970 we had a number of local youths break into the house and steal items from the actives’ bedrooms. Luckily, some of us came back from classes and interrupted the theft. The thieves ended up dropping most of what they had stolen from the bedrooms in the basement room by the cellar door as they escaped from the house.

We had some great Friday and Saturday night parties with sororities in the house and we occasionally entertained inner-city youths at the house with games and lunch as part of our service projects.

As I remember it, the house had eight bedrooms and three bathrooms in the front half of the second floor and four more small bedrooms and a full bath in the back half of the house where the servants’ quarters were originally. On the first floor there were the living room with a fireplace, front entrance with mailboxes, front entrance room, north screened in porch, powder room, kitchen with pantry, back entrance hall room with storage room, dining room, and glassed in sun porch with pool table. Between the first floor and the basement at the front of the house there was the TV room. In the basement there was the chapter meeting room/game room, a storage room for the caps and gowns, furnace/coal room, laundry room, and back entrance storage room. On the third floor there were two large rooms with a bathroom. There was also a three car garage behind the house with a number of parking spaces to the south of the garage.