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I think whether a chapter has a chapter room depends on the size of the house and whether it was built from the start as a fraternity/sorority house. My chapter house was built as a private home 130+ years ago and there is no way to have a secure chapter room with exclusive access. We hold our formal chapter meetings in a classroom with no windows. We do have a ritual to gain access to a room that is set for formal chapter. There are chapters with secret chapter rooms on many big campuses. I visited a chapter house at a Big 10 school that had their house built (as a fraternity house from the start) in the 1920s. It had a secret chapter room that you entered through the back of a closet in the basement. It held their charter and really old archive materials, and was permanently set for chapter meetings. We had to pass the test with flying colors to get to see it!
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