My house was originally built by a Pulitzer Prize winning author- it's on the town's historic tour. It's a little weird inside- the first floor bedrooms were originally the study, the den, and the kitchen. My bedroom was the nursery. There're pics here: http://www.alphataugamma.org/118_sunset_avenue.htm

Ignore the DC letters- we still aren't done painting over everything.

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Unique about our chapter house......
 

It's invisible!! :D :D :D

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Mine too! All sororites here live in one dorm, and the interesting thing about it is that it's haunted. Here's a story about it from a couple weeks ago...

Roberta Ghost Story

And guess which room I'm living in this year...the one where the girl felt the ghost holding her down! :eek: :eek: I haven't had anything like that happen, just little stuff that could probably be explained some other way.

The fraternity houses here are for the most part really nice and/or unique, and have been moving/rebuilding a lot in the past couple years. TKE , SigEp (their house is on the SigEp link posted earlier ), and Phi Sig have all built since 1999, Delta Chi's house is on the national historic register and Ag Rho's just moved into a different old hotel this year. AKL's are starting to talk about rebuilding, Kappa Sigs bought their first house this year (it's kinda small but you have to start somewhere), and Delta Sig is in a house just right for them now.

And the fraternities thinking about building PLEASE include these two things! TKE here has these two things and the other fraternities don't (at least to my knowledge), and it makes a big difference. Someone else said something about them earlier, but they really are essential!

*each room has their own phone line...so messages actually get to the guys

*a CLEAN women's restroom or have sueite (sp?) rooms where two rooms share a bathroom...so girls have to hover the toilet (hey you never know what other girls hang around there sometimes)!

Do not overbuild, everyone is right. Our frats are having a hard time filling, it is better to have overflow, than to be giving bids to fill.
Ok, bathrooms are so important! We have the toilet seperate from the shower so both can be used at the same time. I guess if you have large common baths that isn't necessary, but our downstairs is so much nicer cause we can use both simultaneously and during parties we can lock the shower off so people can't use it. (I know that sounds bad.)
Also, hard wood floors. They last longer and are much prettier. You can always through a tarp down during a party if you need to protect it.
Storage! We have so little and what we do have is scattered everywhere. Good storage is so important.
Good Luck!

Tau Love,
Lil E

We're planning on some pretty heavy-duty construction. An alum of another chapter that's on our house corporation owns an airport construction company. He has the hookup on construction materials. We're going to spend a little more on construction and build a quality house. I can't remember what it's called but it's cement-like. But smooth. Our Oklahoma University chapter actually has a truckload of sand dumped in their living room once a year for a party and it cleans up just fine. Can't remember what it's called though.