walls, Vermont slate roofs, Indiana limestone trim, and stained glass windows as the rest of campus. As a result, Rhodes' fraternity and sorority rows are composed of domestic-scale Gothic lodges featuring variations on the college's distinctive architecture.
== Notable people ==
=== Faculty and administrators ===
William Alexander Forbes (b.1855, d.1883) – zoologist
James K. Patterson – president of the University of Kentucky
Alfred Hume (b.1860, d.1950) – chancellor of the University of Mississippi
Burnet Tuthill (b.1882, d.1982) – educator and founder of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra
Horace B. Davis (b.1898, d.1999) – economist
Allen Tate (b.1899, d.1979) – Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress
Robert Penn Warren (b.1905, d.1989) – Pulitzer Prize winning author of All The King's Men
Bobby Rush (musician) (b.1933) – musician
James H. Daughdrill, Jr. (b.1934, d.2014) – president of Rhodes College
Susan Bies (b.1947) – member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve from 2001 …
