Isn't it? I'm in love with several of the houses at UW, of course I've only seen them from the outside since I didn't go to school there.

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however, the largest physical sorority house that is west of the mississippi river is on the university of colorado campus. or actually i guess you would consider it off campus, but it is in boulder on the hill.

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Well, I have a set of the blueprints right now on my dining room table for the A-Phi house at OU and it's 29,000 s.f., we are spending $1.4 million completely renovating it and yes, it will be full next fall with most of our 100+ new members! We are so excited to be back on campus and the house will have a Starbucks type study lounge, spa bathrooms, gorgeous hardwoods, brick outdoor dining room, all new decor and furniture, etc. All bedrooms will house 2 girls (a few 3 girl rooms) with custom furniture.

I don't think anyone will ever know for sure WHAT house is the biggest in the nation as most houses probably don't even have current blueprints on them. So everyone can say theirs is the biggest and no one will be the wiser!

Looks are deceiving though...our 3rd floor is with dormers and our newer wing stretches out in the back, so just driving by, it probably doesn't look bigger then some of the others. I am just so thrilled our Chapter has recolonized with some awesome girls, our house will be shiny and new again, and we are back for good!

Phi alumn - '97 graduated

I'm not sure of the numbers but looking at the picture the Lambda Chi house at Indiana Univ. is a big freaking house. http://www.indiana.edu/~lxa/

What happened to their original houses?

Phi Psi is going to be amazing........absolutely gorgeous. As far as I know.....I thought they were on suspension till like 2009?? Maybe I missed something.

First, I want to say that Alpha Delt will never be (or want to be) the biggest fraternity in the world(although we probably were....... in 1839:) We have 30 chapters and affiliates, and don't plan on being any bigger than 45-50 chapters.

While we have some big houses, I don't think any break into the top 25, but I know a few hold big numbers, 80-90 guys, but they still use sleeping porches!

We do have some of the most valuable (as in most expense to replace) houses, with our Cornell house often cited as one of the most beautiful houses in the country. The GOTE Haus (chapter room), which is a separate building with no apparent entrance, would take 2-300,000 to replace. You could land a plane in the living room, and fit my chapter house in the lobby. The woodwork, the fireplaces......
Many of our northeastern chapters have gorgeous old mansions, built when stone masons and carpenters made dirt!

That Phi Psi house...it's a house?! It's huge! It kind of reminds me of a resort cabin or something...phew!

They are removed from campus, but they're still going to remain here and rush and just wait it out. I'm sort of jealous myself. To much has been poured into that house.

Yeah......that is what I understood. Either way.....I am really wondering if they are ever going to build that sucker......I remember them talking about it my freshman year.

Haha yes sir, me too. It's been a great rush tool for them. Lets hope it can be finished within two years. With how long it took them to demolish their old house, we'll see. Sigma Chi is going to return next semester off campus aswell. Phi Psi still holds a two year lease at the Sigma Chi House, after that they're out.

I live right next to the Chi O house at UW! I was fortunate enough to be invited for a house tour of it during rush and it is HUGE.
The houses at UW are beautiful :)

I dunno...super big houses = super big liabilities. So many college students prefer their own apartments...seems like Greeks would be trending toward smaller houses, with bigger meeting rooms and fewer residents. When you have those big houses, it takes a LOT of bodies to fill them to pay the bills. JMHO.

I drove by greek row(s) at UW last night, and the streets and their houses looked so beautiful with all their white Christmas lights!

That Delt house (OU) goes on forever.... It seems like the Oklahoma frats went out, rather then up or down (stories), as most of them seem to take up a lot of actual space.

I haven't seen anything larger than 30,000 square feet and around 90 in house members.

We are just finishing up the addition to our house. When it is finished in July for the fall it will be in the neighborhood of 6 millions dollars (not counting property) and 32,000 square feet. It will have the capacity of holding 106 men, with a variety of room setups, one man, two man, three man, four man, and two person suites.

These numbers come straight off the blue-prints. 95% of our guys are engineers.

www.akpikes.com

Better pics.

http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q.../Expansion.jpg

http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q...elli/House.jpghttp://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q...elli/House.jpg

http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q.../Expansion.jpg

Wow, that's impressive. I say that wins! :)

eta: Wait -- where is this?

hmmmmm....there are definitely no greek houses on my campus at all...there's an OLD city law saying that four or more people of the same sex in a house with our family relations or marriage is a brothel and is against the law. but next year the different greek orgs are going to be claiming different on campus (on campus housing) and will be able to hang up their letters if they have over a certain number of members in a building.

No.

There is NO brothel law - what you refer to is a zoning law re commercial/multi-family dwellings.

U of MO - Rolla

That is correct. We are located at the University of Missouri-Rolla, and engineering university that is going through a name change and will soon become Missouri University of Science & Technology (MS&T)

PURDUE has some HUGE monster houses.

We just did an story on SAE at SMU, and the house certainly is huge, almost 20,000 square feet.

http://fratboynews.blogspot.com/sear...f%20the%20Year

Yes, I know, this is a link to my own site...post hateful comments below.

I thought I had said this on this thread earlier...but only 4 million for FSU Pike???? That's pretty cheap for a house that can house Tiajuana. The new Sigma Nu house here only houses 53 people and ran around 5.6 mill I believe.

Congrats on the new construction project! Your house was big to begin with, but now..wow! Have fun paying your heating bill :) But seriously, with what your chapter has faced in the past, you guys deserve a good solid house.

OMIGOSH!!! I've seen that house, and thought it was a dorm! Do they have a few thousand chapter members or something?

Not necessarily the largest by any means, but a few years ago, a Beta Theta Pi alum donated $3.5 million towards restoring their house at Penn State, thought to be the largest donation to a fraternity at the time. If you've ever seen any of the PSU fraternity houses, you know that they're pretty nice to begin with. Here's a link to the article; here's the house as it stands right now.

Thanks for that post about Beta, honeychile - it brought back a lot of memories. Way too many nights dragged out to there to keep an eye on my friend's cheating Beta boyfriend....

It's indeed a beautiful house - you should see it at Christmas - they put a two-story high tree in the living room. We had a really posh tree-decorating social with them, very different from the more uproarious parties thrown by other houses.

Penn State has some amazingly gorgeous fraternity houses - old fieldstone mansions with baloneys, grands stairways, etc. When I was at school, the guys kept most of the houses really well. Sadly, (with Beta as a standout exception) I understand that many of them no longer do so. I have friends who are TKEs who said that the undergraduates have trashed their beautiful house so badly that the the town is trying to get it closed.

http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive...07dnews-07.asp

Elephant, I didn't know it ran that high. I think they got $3.5mill in private funding. Any idea on the sq. footage (can't find that info).

I did find that it's 3 stories, with 53 suites overall (so I guess if you give each individual a suite, it houses 53). And will have an elevator :cool:

Not really sure but by looking at the pictures of the houses i would say it would have to be between AXO, Tri Delt, or PiPhi. Could be wrong. Not the whole house is shown.

http://www.colorado.edu/greeks/sororities/chapters.html

My boyfriend is a member of his chapter's house corporation, and the alumni are tearing out their hair over the same issue: the undergrads are turning the house into a pit, and there's a real risk the university could take it away (small private school).

I am a TKE at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma and I just want to say that it bothers me when people complain about the size of their houses or the condition they are in. At NSU, we're not even allowed to have greek housing, be it for fraternities or sororities. We have many different houses that our members live in off campus, but not one house has more than about 4 members living in it at any given time. I visited my friend a few weekends ago who is a Pike up at OU (University of Oklahoma) and he and his brothers were complaining about the size and condition of their house. I told him he should be lucky that they are even allowed to have a house. It wasn't even that bad of a house either. Everyone should really quit complaining about size, condition, etc...there are plenty of schools across the nation who would love to have any type of greek house on their campus, regardless of how small or ugly it may be...

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hmm banditone you'll have to explain to me that "I'm a Snake by God" chant sometime....

an ELEVATOR? wow...Elephant Walk where do you go to school?

He's at U. of Ark.

Elevators aren't that expensive. My parents have an elevator in their house :)

Couldn't find any numbers on the house but the Delta Sig chapter at NC State lives in a converted hotel. It surely is competitive for the top spot.

At USF's greek village, we have elevators

I believe the house sleeps around 40. Surrounded by a golf course...not a bad way to spend 4 years of college.