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Originally posted by dznat187
I am kind of curious about Greek houses. My undergrad did not have any but I have been in some at Indiana U. Who do the chapters contract to build the houses? Is there a group that specifically designs greek houses? and what is the usual price range for greek house?
also, if anyone has anything that was/is a neat little feature of their chapter house, feel free to share. Like if they haev a room used just for meetings or just for ritual, etc. I'm very interested.
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Our houses were built specifically for Greeks back in the late 1800s to the 1940s. The sorority houses were all built with a living room, library, kitchen and dinning room on the first floor and a house mother's apartment on the secon floor. They have since all been renovated and look pretty different. For example, what is now the AST house was built by Pi Phi, the living room and waiting room are now bedrooms and the house mother's apt has been turned into about five bedrooms for women.
The fraternity houses were all built with House mother's apt, living room, kitchen, dinning room on the first floor/basement and then two floors of men's rooms. These still look pretty similar to how they were built, not many major changes.
Sig Chi, TKE and Phi Psi (also the old Beta and SAE houses) all had designated ritual/chapter rooms in their basements while the sororities did not, partly because the houses were so much smaller. We used our living room for chapter and such, just adujsted the furniture.
I think the best feature that houses can have, if you are going to have traditional bathrooms and not the group kind, is to make sure that the toilet, shower and sink are seperated. So you have the toliet room, the shower room and the sink out side, think of it like a hotel bathroom sort of...I'm not sure how to explain it, but when you have a traditional bathroom, where everything is enclosed in one room, it is totally holds up the bathroom line. Women (maybe men too, not sure) just take too much time. Seperating it out lets more people get in at a time, but this is really only relevant in smaller houses with a traditional bathroom. Our first house had one bathroom (4 women lived in) and it was always a traffic jam to get in there so this became a huge pet-peeve of mine.
Another thing is if you are building, I would keep bed rooms as far away as possible from lounge areas. It was always hard for the three women who lived on the first floor to sleep when some of us were hyper and playing in the living room till all hours.
http://www.sos.mtu.edu/ast/ this is one of my favorite AST houses because they have done a great job of preserving the history of the house.
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