The State College Zoning Hearing Board granted permission to Alpha Chi Rho fraternity, 425 Locust Lane, to build a new house on East Prospect Avenue, the board's chairman said after a meeting yesterday morning.

Stanford Lembeck said the board allowed a special exception for the new house's construction, under the condition that a brick wall be erected on two sides of the property.

Lembeck said the fraternity owns the lot between Dr. Frank Deutsch's home, 317 E. Prospect Ave., and a 50-foot wide lot also owned by Deutsch.

Lembeck said the proposed plan called for taking 25 feet of the fraternity's land closest to Deutsch's home and making it his property, and then shifting the future site of construction for Alpha Chi Rho's new house accordingly.

"The board established a condition that a screened wall be built as part of our approval," Lembeck said.

He added the board rejected alternatives to the wall, including a wood fence.

"We felt a brick wall would provide more protection for the property owner and the neighborhood," Lembeck said. "It will be sturdier and more permanent."

Lembeck, also an associate professor of rural sociology at the University, said the wall will be built facing Prospect Avenue and separating the adjoining private property on the west side of the lot.

The president of Alpha Chi Rho said a group of five graduated brothers are handling the property situation.

Rob Elias (junior-foreign service and international politics) said the fraternity was represented at the meeting by a member of this group.

"I assume the building will begin in late winter or early spring," Elias said. He added that the present house has been sold to Theta Xi fraternity, currently located at 251 S. Pugh St.

In additional business, the board granted Acacia fraternity, 234 Locust Lane, permission to exceed height limits and reconstruct the roof on the 1962 addition to their house.

"The new roof will conform to the older portion of the house and to the pitch and height of its roof," Lembeck said.