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Robert and Agnes Cohen House, home of the Rice University Faculty Club, was built in 1927 with a gift from the Houston retail merchant George S. Cohen in honor of his parents Agnes Lord and Robert I. Cohen. Cohen House was the first purpose-built university faculty club building in Texas. Although the club has been expanded in size (most dramatically in 1958-59, with smaller additions in 1976, 1994, and 2005), it retains strong associations with the generation of Rice professors, administrators, staff members, and graduate students who have dined there.