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Let's hear about/see your house!
Well, as usual I am trying to find an interesting topic to bring up. How about this: Tell us about your house and let's see a picture. When I say house, I mean your physical house.
Here is a picture Our current chapter house was built in 1931 and was one of the first houses built on fraternity square (a block consisting of fraternity houses). We share the block with Lambda Chi, SAE, Sigma Nu, Sigma Chi, and Phi Tau. The house holds 32-35 brothers. While one of the smaller ones, it is one of the most unique on campus as it is the only house built of Indiana Limestone, and I'm pretty sure it has the thickest pillars http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif ------------------ Brian Sejas The Miami Chapter of Delta Upsilon, Est. May 13, 1868. |
I'm not in a sorority YET, but HOPEFULLY soon I will be. Anyways, your house is beautiful!!!!
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Your house is really nice. I have a friend at Miami University Oxford who is a Phi Tau. I almost went there, but decided to stay in Texas. (I am origionaly from Cincinnati.) It's a wonderful school!! I don't think there is a picture of our lodge on our website so I guess no one can see it. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/frown.gif Oh well.
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To start off with, that is an awesome looking house.
We (AGD's) have had the same house since our chapter was started in 1922. orginally it use to be two houses and the orginal AGD house was the left portion I believe. Stats: houses 65+ girls, kitchen,piano room dining area with about 10 tables, sitting room,living room (with a couch that we have had since 1970's, we love it),laundry, penthouse (which can house up to 8 girls), study area, exercise room, bike room, pantry, house moms apartment, etc. Yes I am bragging because we have one of the best houses and campus and I LOVE it. Prime location to classes also. We share a street with Kappa Sig, Psi U, AEPhi, SDT, TEP(they have DU's House), KKG and and AXO. Here is a link to our house www.homestead.com/agds/home.html (best viewed with IE). ------------------ "Its Great To Be A Mich-igan AGD! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif" [This message has been edited by UMgirl (edited June 26, 2001).] |
UMgirl's link should end in .html instead of .hmtl for those that are wondering what is wrong with it.
UMgirl, you all have an awesome house! More like a mansion -- you definately have bragging rights http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif That size of a house is not something you see around Miami for sure. Also, sororities can't have houses here. Even if they could, there'd be nowhere to put them. ------------------ Brian Sejas The Miami Chapter of Delta Upsilon, Est. May 13, 1868. |
My chapter has TWO houses. The zoning codes say that fraternities and sororities are commercial property and we owned one house at the time but it didn't have enough parking so we bought the house next door and made a huge parking lot in back of the two of them. The houses at Western KY are just normal houses you would see on the street except KD who has a normal house connected to another house and Kappa Alpha who just bought a new house cause their's was burned down. Anyways, we have the Brown house and White house. I live in the Brown house. It is the more social of the two. It houses 10 women and the white house is more formal (we have some ceremonies there) and it houses 9. Here is a link (I just made this site last week!!!) http://ThetaIotaAGD.homestead.com/home.html
The thing I love the most is the brown house porch. It is huge (although you can't see it in the pic, it is off to the left). Our brown house did have the greek letters on it until Phi Delt stole every delta on campus and we took the Alpha and Gamma down too. ------------------ "...and love her for her womanhood." [This message has been edited by ilovemyglo (edited June 25, 2001).] |
UMGirl - God Lord that house is gorgeous!!!!
My sorority doesn't have a website up and I don't have any scanned pictures of our house - but as soon as i do i'll get the link up http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif Here's a link to one of my favorite houses at Iowa though, just so you can get a feel of what the houses here are like! http://members.aol.com/iowatridelta/TriDeltaHouse.gif [This message has been edited by IowaHawkeye (edited June 26, 2001).] |
Wow, you guys(and girls) have some great houses. At my school(undergrad) we are one of the only 2 fraternities with houses, and we have only been on campus since the early 70's.... both group's houses are off campus about 1 mile away next to one another.
We are still waiting to see if a greek row will materialize... What's cool is our house was an old hotel in sunny daytona, and we do have a pool in the back. Spring break always bring a lot of visitors http://www.db.erau.edu/campus/studen...hi/EtaIota.jpg |
We are not housed as of yet, but we will be soon!
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Wow, these houses are IMPRESSIVE! UMGirl, I really love yours! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif
Well I'm not in a sorority yet, but I'm rushing this fall! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/wink.gif Here's how it works at my school, Jacksonville State: The sororities don't have houses (there is a fraternity row though)...but there is a dormitory they all use and each of the five sororities has her own floor. (It's like an 8-story dorm, so freshman girls are allowed to live on the top 3 floors!) If I'm not mistaken, the sisters can choose to live on their sorority's floor...which is complete with a chapter room and all! I was priveleged enough to tour Phi Mu's floor and get a glimpse of their chapter room when my family and I toured the campus. It's really neat...composites from past to present line the walls (which are painted in that sorority's colors, of course) and the letters and mascot are painted on all the windows to signify whose floor it is to those viewing the dorm from outside! It just seems like such an awesome atmosphere. I have a picture of the hall from the outside (I took so many pics on that campus tour! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif), let me see if I can't get it up on a website for yall. Check back soon! |
We don't have any pics of our house online. I'll have to work on that. Anyway, our house is one of four on campus. It was built in 1974, and is like a dorm. it is brick, and the inside walls are cinderblock, kind of impersonal. It houses 48 guys, and we have a kitchen, chapter room, formal, game room, study room, cold dorm, tv room, and an atrium. 5 of the rooms were added about 15 years ago, and it closed in the atrium. we just had the kitchen remodeled, got a big screen tv in the tv room, got new carpet, and repainted the hallways. we joke around and say if a bomb hit campus, our house would be the only building left standing. let me just say it was built to have 40+ fraternity guys living in it, and over the last 26 years it has been put to the test!
We used to have a house in town, on ISU's fraternity row, where 3 of the 8 rose houses are (Pike is off campus, but not in town. They have an old orphanage/compound, with a gym and two living buildings. it's pretty nice, but really old, and some stuff is pretty run down), but then we built the new house. I heard we had a really nice, huge house in another part of town, but couldn't have more than 5 or 6 guys living there because of zoning or something, so we just got rid of it. On a side note, I really like the houses at IU. Most of them are on 3rd street (I think) and the ones that really stand out in my mind are the Lambda Chi house and the Acacia house. They are HUGE and really nice looking. All of the houses on 3rd are really big and really nice though. ------------------ Steve Corbin Lambda Chi Alpha Theta Kappa Chapter Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech. |
Hey whats up Sig....i've been to your house a few times. Didn't know you are an ERAU sig until i actually looked at your whole screename. Last time I saw your house was when we had joint province about 3 years ago. Your pool is drained now though. I work in St. Augustine and usually a couple of your guys come up for the day and I'll see them, or i'll run into a few down at UCF when im down for a party too. In Hoc
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The Zeta house at the College of Charleston is right smack in the middle of Sorority Row. All of the houses are built in that old Charleston style. They are one room wide, but extend really far back from the street, which ends up making them really long and narrow. There are huge porches on the first and second floor. The upper porch is the "smoking porch" and that's where all the sisters take study breaks. 10 girls live in the house, but we also have supernatural tenants! We are actually in a book of haunted Charleston homes. The house was built before the Civil War, and the story goes that Tom (our ghost) is an ex-slave. And don't ever say you don't believe in him. He'll just mess with you even more! I am totally NOT joking! Zeta's National Housing Corp totally redecorated the house in the summer of 1999, and it is gorgeous! Our national president even came to see it! I don't have any pics to link to, but it is supposed to be a future "Featured House" on the ZTA website (www.zetataualpha.org).
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UMGirl - I like that house, very classic looking - but I think I like your house better http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif I love this topic - it's great seeing what houses look like across the country!
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Also, in reply to someone else, people get lost in our house too. The funny thing is, it's just a big square downstairs, and there's a front and back stairway to the one upstairs hall. ------------------ Steve Corbin Lambda Chi Alpha Theta Kappa Chapter Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech. |
Nobody feels seperated. We play tricks on each other (like toilet papering each other's side of the lot and stuff or writing with side walk chalk). We are constantly crossing the parking lot to see each other and you always have someone somewhere who you can talk to. It is so funny though, some one will call the brown house for whoever and we are like "she lives in the white house" because we don't think about the correlation between us and the white house in DC. People give us some weird comments on that one. Other than that it makes us special!!!
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Here are links to the Chi Omega houses at USC and UCLA.
USC: http://www.usc.edu/dept/ifc/frat/chiomega.html UCLA: http://www.studentgroups.ucla.edu/pa...io2/chio2.html We're no longer on the USC campus, but the house was gorgeous--beautiful grand front staircase, housed about 60 of us, had a little kitchen where we could cook for ourselves when the staff was not there--breakfast lunch and dinner were catered M-F, had a computer center and workout room--I lived in for 2 years and loved it. |
Our house has received two new additions to it since it was first built. The second addition is being built right now!!! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif Our old chapter room/dining room is being converted into a study room on one side and a formal living room on the other. Our chapter hall will be huge! It will have a stage. Then, there's a covered walkway from the chapter hall to the main living. It looks awesome so far. The best part is that nationals are paying for all of it (the new furniture and construction). In other words, our dues won't go up at all!!! Our website is: http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~zta The pictures of the addition are supposed to be on the sight. Don't know if our sight builder has gotten around to it yet.
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http://www.psiu.org/images/houses/epsilnnu2000l.jpg. Heres my house
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sorry that one doesnt work here one that does http://www.psiu.org/fr/contactpgs/epsilnnupg.html
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PsiU_EN your coat of arms has the adpi hands on it from their badge(that is what it looks like) any relationship there?
Sarah ------------------ "...and love her for her womanhood." |
Its on our badge, and has to be on all chapter coat of arms. I have no idea of the relationship between other GLO. U can read all the heraldry at the web page.
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It's kind of obvious since I started this topic, but I've always found fraternity and sorority houses very interesting to see.
NEW QUESTION! Does anyone know what the largest house is, like, in North America? Or what campus has the largest/best houses as far as size goes? Here at Miami we have big houses, but they aren't huge mansions like some of these I've seen. ------------------ Brian Sejas The Miami Chapter of Delta Upsilon, Est. May 13, 1868. |
I was wondering what you thought about the Sigma Chi house at Miami (ohio) Brian?
Hey UNF, I haven't been up far enough north yet to see your house, but I do know one of the brothers in my chapter who lives in Jax that goes up that way a lot. I haven't been to our house since our 30th birthday in April, so I don't know how are pool is holding up. I once put on my scuba gear to help clean it though. I hope to make it back up to my house, Orlando and maybe UCF and to party at the end of July, work is keeping me too busy to go up this month. UCF does have an awesome house and all the girls I've seen at UCF are 10's. In Hoc |
Sig624,
I'm sure many will be envious of the Sigma Chi's now, at least because of their house. As you know, it caught on fire towards the end of the first semester last year. We live two houses down from them. Reconstruction has been going on since then, and last I heard they now have central air conditioning!! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif Regardless, I have never seen the inside of the house, but the outside was very attractive. At least it was until it was all burnt up. I'm sure it will look nice after the summer. Here at Miami, Sigma Chi's are stereotypically big guys, same with Theta Chi. Either of them are the usual Puddle Pull champions during Greek Week and our Pledge Puddle Pull (but we won last year, woohoo!) ------------------ Brian Sejas The Miami Chapter of Delta Upsilon, Est. May 13, 1868. |
Thanks for the replies about our house http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif. All of yours look great also.Its funny because the house has caught on fire two times. The lastest time it did it was in the '80s and an alum who was president told us that while the girls were watching the firemen put it out DU was across the street watching, blasting Burning Down The House, with their speakers in the windows. I will also fix the link I put and show you one of my other fave houses on campus. The Sigma Kappa House.
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Your houses are all so beautiful!! Iowa Hawkeye that house is amazing!! UMGirls house is even nicer inside. I have been there before and you literally can get LOST if you don't know your way around it!! I drive by it everyday for work and I smile that we have such an awesome house. At EMU, we had a nice house this last year that was yellow and trimmed in green and red so it was really neat that it matched us. this year we are taking the old DZ house because they are moving into the Univ. President's old house. I think it is gonna look really nice!! We are getting frosted glass for the door window and we are gonna finally have a house we can hopefully keep for a while (we get a new house almost every year)!!
------------------ Katey, ZA chapter of AGD "Could I have been anyone other than me?"-Dave Matthews |
ok the link is fixed and here is Sigma Kappa. Their house is on a steep hill and it takes about 5 flights of stairs to get up to it and they also have a volleyball court on the bottom of the hill. http://www.umich.edu/~greeks/images/...ouse-large.jpg
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It is a cool topic!
This is a pic of our house http://www.stuorg.iastate.edu/thetadeltachi/ Our house is the oldest house for fraternal living in Iowa State (built in 1909) and we were chartered in 1919 ... and our house is one of Iowa State's historical landmark. Last renovation was in 1960s, and we take a good care of our house. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif |
queequek,
I'm fairly certain our house would qualify as a historic building, but I've always wondered what the advantages/disadvantages were of it? Could you tell me? ------------------ Brian Sejas The Miami Chapter of Delta Upsilon, Est. May 13, 1868. |
The mayor of lansing came over for dinner once and he told us that we would get tax breaks and some money for its up keep
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Ya there is a guy from ERAU that is going to summer school at UNF. I talked to him a couple of times earlier in the summer, but i haven't seen him on campus lately. We don't have a house anymore, it was off campus and it got to the point when everytime we had a party or even more than 10 cars at the house for an event the cops would show up. So I was the last house manager and I miss having one. Supposibly we are getting land for on campus greek housing, but not till 2015. So no fraternities have houses until then. Ya i have some friends in KD ZTA and DDD at UCF so i go down there once a semester to hang out with them at a sig party. I lived in the house there a couple summers ago...just for like a month though but it was a fun month!
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Regarding the historic building question: Did you have to go dry? Do they allow you to build onto your house if it is a registered historic building? Those are the disadvantages I wondered about.
------------------ Brian Sejas The Miami Chapter of Delta Upsilon, Est. May 13, 1868. |
The Alpha Phi House here is a registered national landmark - the house is gorgeous so it deserves it. But I know that if they want to change anything - even get new carpet they have to get the permission of the higher ups andeverything has to be supervised so that nothing happens to the house. I would think that in a fraternity houses case, if you wanted to be a landmark, you probably would have to go dry - but of course i'm not sure about that.
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In the words of Snoopy, ARRRG all of these fancy houses make me sick, ill, and want to cry!
Small schools do not normally have big house or at least they have retrod old local houses! The STG house on campus was at one time the House of Pres. of the Collage, SX built a new house in the old tradition! Our Grand Old Lady has seen to many days of fun and dumb! We are looking at building a new House in the Traditional motif of Southern or Georgian structure (elevation). If anyone has plans for a 22-24 person house, let me know! ------------------ Tom Earp LX Z#1 Pittsburg State U. (Kansas) |
While talking to one of the actives during UGA's Rush last year, I was told that the Delta Zeta house at the University of Georgia is one of, if not the, largest sorority houses in the South. This could be a rumor -- I'm not sure -- but it is definitely a big house! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif
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http://www.untksig.com/house_tour/1.htm
Our new home at the University of North Texas(it's furnished now) and a virtual tour is available at the link. Brad Bracken |
here's a link to a picture of the DZ house at Georgia - it looks big to me http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif
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BrianMUDU,
I go to school in Charleston, SC where EVERY building is on the historical landmark registry. This includes 100% of the greek houses on my campus. And I can assure that the houses did not have to go dry! I think being a historical landmark only affects wanting to add rooms or renovate. But our house was renovated 2 summers ago and it didn't cause a problem. Of course, the rules may be different where you are. I guess you could check with whatever historic preservation society is around you or check with your school's administration. ------------------ "Seek the noblest." Zeta Love! <3 |
Other sorority houses at USC:
Alpha Chi Omega: http://www.usc.edu/dept/ifc/frat/alphachiomega.html Alpha Delta Pi: http://www.usc.edu/dept/ifc/frat/alphadeltapi.html Alpha Phi: http://www.usc.edu/dept/ifc/frat/alphaphi.html Alpha Epsilon Phi: http://www.usc.edu/dept/ifc/frat/alphaepsilonphi.html Chi Omega: http://www.usc.edu/dept/ifc/frat/chiomega.html Delta Gamma: http://www.usc.edu/dept/ifc/frat/deltagamma.html Delta Delta Delta: http://www.usc.edu/dept/ifc/frat/tridelta.html Gamma Phi Beta: http://www.usc.edu/dept/ifc/frat/gammaphibeta.html Kappa Kappa Gamma: http://www.usc.edu/dept/ifc/frat/kappakappagamma.html Kappa Alpha Theta: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~theta/ourhome.htm Pi Beta Phi: http://www.usc.edu/dept/ifc/frat/pibetaphi.html [This message has been edited by amycat412 (edited June 27, 2001).] |
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