Delta Phi has resided in this house for over 66 years. The right-most two-thirds of the house probably date to about 1879, when it first appears on the New Brunswick tax rolls. It was a private residence owned by a local bank president (and possibly a mayor of New Brunswick - there's some confusion over names and initials). Later, it was owned by James Wood Johnson, of the Johnson and Johnson Company. The house took on its present Georgian colonial look when Delta Phi purchased the property in 1929. The renovations were largely the effort of Rutgers and Delta Phi trustee, John W. Mettler. St. Elmo Hall, then, shares with many Rutgers buildings of the same era, Mettler's desire to keep Rutgers' image as a pre-revolutionary college. The house can comfortably house over 30 brothers in single, double and triple rooms. The first floor contains the impressive Founder's Room, Dining Room (for daily dinner service), "Card Room," bar and kitchen.