what is the largest house

[33girl]

Originally Posted by coRHOlation07

hmmmmm....there are definitely no greek houses on my campus at all...there's an OLD city law saying that four or more people of the same sex in a house with our family relations or marriage is a brothel and is against the law. but next year the different greek orgs are going to be claiming different on campus (on campus housing) and will be able to hang up their letters if they have over a certain number of members in a building.

No.

There is NO brothel law - what you refer to is a zoning law re commercial/multi-family dwellings.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by NutBrnHair

Wow, that's impressive. I say that wins!

eta: Wait -- where is this?

U of MO - Rolla

[Chazarelli]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

U of MO - Rolla

That is correct. We are located at the University of Missouri-Rolla, and engineering university that is going through a name change and will soon become Missouri University of Science & Technology (MS&T)

[banditone]

PURDUE has some HUGE monster houses.

[TheFratBoyNews]

We just did an story on SAE at SMU, and the house certainly is huge, almost 20,000 square feet.

http://fratboynews.blogspot.com/sear...f%20the%20Year

Yes, I know, this is a link to my own site...post hateful comments below.

[Elephant Walk]

I thought I had said this on this thread earlier...but only 4 million for FSU Pike???? That's pretty cheap for a house that can house Tiajuana. The new Sigma Nu house here only houses 53 people and ran around 5.6 mill I believe.

[PiKA2001]

Originally Posted by Chazarelli

I haven't seen anything larger than 30,000 square feet and around 90 in house members.

We are just finishing up the addition to our house. When it is finished in July for the fall it will be in the neighborhood of 6 millions dollars (not counting property) and 32,000 square feet. It will have the capacity of holding 106 men, with a variety of room setups, one man, two man, three man, four man, and two person suites.

These numbers come straight off the blue-prints. 95% of our guys are engineers.

www.akpikes.com

Congrats on the new construction project! Your house was big to begin with, but now..wow! Have fun paying your heating bill But seriously, with what your chapter has faced in the past, you guys deserve a good solid house.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

Just to give the west coast some love, I direct you to the U-Dub Chi Omega house, which claims to be "the second largest fraternal structure west of the Mississippi"

http://students.washington.edu/chiomega/ourhouse.html

And, it even looks pretty from the outside (in my opinion)

OMIGOSH!!! I've seen that house, and thought it was a dorm! Do they have a few thousand chapter members or something?

Not necessarily the largest by any means, but a few years ago, a Beta Theta Pi alum donated $3.5 million towards restoring their house at Penn State, thought to be the largest donation to a fraternity at the time. If you've ever seen any of the PSU fraternity houses, you know that they're pretty nice to begin with. Here's a link to the article; here's the house as it stands right now.

[LionTamer]

Thanks for that post about Beta, honeychile - it brought back a lot of memories. Way too many nights dragged out to there to keep an eye on my friend's cheating Beta boyfriend....

It's indeed a beautiful house - you should see it at Christmas - they put a two-story high tree in the living room. We had a really posh tree-decorating social with them, very different from the more uproarious parties thrown by other houses.

Penn State has some amazingly gorgeous fraternity houses - old fieldstone mansions with baloneys, grands stairways, etc. When I was at school, the guys kept most of the houses really well. Sadly, (with Beta as a standout exception) I understand that many of them no longer do so. I have friends who are TKEs who said that the undergraduates have trashed their beautiful house so badly that the the town is trying to get it closed.

http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive...07dnews-07.asp

[banditone]

Originally Posted by Elephant Walk

I thought I had said this on this thread earlier...but only 4 million for FSU Pike???? That's pretty cheap for a house that can house Tiajuana. The new Sigma Nu house here only houses 53 people and ran around 5.6 mill I believe.

Elephant, I didn't know it ran that high. I think they got $3.5mill in private funding. Any idea on the sq. footage (can't find that info).

I did find that it's 3 stories, with 53 suites overall (so I guess if you give each individual a suite, it houses 53). And will have an elevator

[flirt5721]

Originally Posted by norcalluvbug

however, the largest physical sorority house that is west of the mississippi river is on the university of colorado campus. or actually i guess you would consider it off campus, but it is in boulder on the hill.

Not really sure but by looking at the pictures of the houses i would say it would have to be between AXO, Tri Delt, or PiPhi. Could be wrong. Not the whole house is shown.

http://www.colorado.edu/greeks/sororities/chapters.html

[IvySpice]

I have friends who are TKEs who said that the undergraduates have trashed their beautiful house so badly that the the town is trying to get it closed.

My boyfriend is a member of his chapter's house corporation, and the alumni are tearing out their hair over the same issue: the undergrads are turning the house into a pit, and there's a real risk the university could take it away (small private school).

[Laak 315]

I am a TKE at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma and I just want to say that it bothers me when people complain about the size of their houses or the condition they are in. At NSU, we're not even allowed to have greek housing, be it for fraternities or sororities. We have many different houses that our members live in off campus, but not one house has more than about 4 members living in it at any given time. I visited my friend a few weekends ago who is a Pike up at OU (University of Oklahoma) and he and his brothers were complaining about the size and condition of their house. I told him he should be lucky that they are even allowed to have a house. It wasn't even that bad of a house either. Everyone should really quit complaining about size, condition, etc...there are plenty of schools across the nation who would love to have any type of greek house on their campus, regardless of how small or ugly it may be...

[banditone]

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[KyleMcGuire1983]

hmm banditone you'll have to explain to me that "I'm a Snake by God" chant sometime....

an ELEVATOR? wow...Elephant Walk where do you go to school?