Let's hear about/see your house!

BrianMUDU · #1 06-25-2001, 05:34 PM

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

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Brian Sejas
The Miami Chapter of Delta Upsilon, Est. May 13, 1868.

CRMSNTiDEGRL717 · #2 06-25-2001, 06:43 PM

I'm not in a sorority YET, but HOPEFULLY soon I will be. Anyways, your house is beautiful!!!!

TechADPI · #3 06-25-2001, 08:08 PM

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.

Oh well.

#4 06-25-2001, 10:15 PM

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).

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BrianMUDU · #5 06-25-2001, 11:00 PM

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

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.

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Brian Sejas
The Miami Chapter of Delta Upsilon, Est. May 13, 1868.

ilovemyglo · #6 06-25-2001, 11:19 PM

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.
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IowaHawkeye · #7 06-26-2001, 12:31 AM

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

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

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Sig624EI · #8 06-26-2001, 12:49 AM

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

LexiKD · #9 06-26-2001, 01:35 AM

We are not housed as of yet, but we will be soon!

How does having 2 houses work? DO the girls feel separated?

Everyone's houses look great!

orchid2 · #10 06-26-2001, 03:09 AM

Wow, these houses are IMPRESSIVE! UMGirl, I really love yours!

Well I'm not in a sorority yet, but I'm rushing this fall!

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!

), let me see if I can't get it up on a website for yall. Check back soon!

Corbin Dallas · #11 06-26-2001, 08:54 AM

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.

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Steve Corbin
Lambda Chi Alpha
Theta Kappa Chapter
Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech.

UNFSigmaChi · #12 06-26-2001, 09:33 AM

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

Dianne · #13 06-26-2001, 01:30 PM

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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Zeta Love! <3

IowaHawkeye · #14 06-26-2001, 01:52 PM

UMGirl - I like that house, very classic looking - but I think I like your house better

I love this topic - it's great seeing what houses look like across the country!

Corbin Dallas · #15 06-26-2001, 01:58 PM

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Originally posted by UMgirl:
Thanks for the replies about our house . 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.

I'm sorry, but I got a good laugh out of that. I think if our house ever caught on fire, the most that would be fire damaged would be one room. I honestly don't think it could spread past that. Our house is all steel and rock, except for peoples lofts, carpets, and furniture.

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.

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Steve Corbin
Lambda Chi Alpha
Theta Kappa Chapter
Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech.