what is the largest house

Firehouse · #1 09-20-2006, 09:40 PM

Ha. I see an FSUPhi beat me to it. We have a long standing good-natured rivalry, and both of us just built new houses. The reason the cost for houses of this size may seem low (Pike cost $4.5 million; Phi Delt $4 million ++) is because there was little or no land costs for the fraternities, and the University built the infrastructure and provided 100 parking places per house. The chapters had to pay very litte of the cost; we could put all our money into bricks & mortar.

Pike, Phi Delt and Lambda Chi just finished building new houses. Sig Ep and ATO will break ground soon. All five will be more or less the same size. Phi Delt built three unconnected buildings. If they house 66 men then they have the largest house capacity. Website: http://www.fsuphidelt.org/index.asp LXA built two unconnected houses. Website: http://www.lxafsu.com/
Pike built one enormous 40,000 square foot house all under one roof. It houses 60 men. Website: http://www.fsupikes.com/
the Pike house is the largest fraternity house in the nation under one roof. It's possible that Phi Delt has the largest fraternity house in the nation under three roofs.
Rush was great this fall. All three of us pledged between 45-60 men each.

Couple of other points brought up previously in this thread:
1. About Pike being the largest fraternity in the nation...
It's been published before, but: SAE has more total initiates; Sig Ep has the most undergraduates in a given year; TKE has the most chapters; Phi Kappa Psi has the alrgest endowment; Pike has the largest average chapter size among all fraternities, and has had that for twenty years or more.
All of this information is inconsequential because it discounts the strength of great fraternities like, well, Phi Delt, Beta Theta Pi, Sigma Chi and many others.

2. Sig Ep house at Mississippi State is the largest fraternity house in mississippi. Since 1960 the Pikes house there had that distinction. When the Sig Eps built their new house the deliberately built it one square foot larger.

madmax · #2 09-22-2006, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Firehouse

Pike, Phi Delt and Lambda Chi just finished building new houses. .

What happened to their original houses?

Texas Beta · #3 11-30-2006, 05:02 AM

Has anyone mentioned about the Texas Phi Psi house, It's going to be the largest fraternity house in the country, if they ever build it. They've faced a ton of delays. I met one of the gentlemen who put up a majority of the funds to build their house. They were smart about it. It's going to be apartment style, so if anything happens, they can keep the house, just lease them as apartments to non Greeks, until the chapter is able to move back in. You can check out the plans http://www.utphipsi.com/ .

macallan25 · #4 11-30-2006, 02:22 PM

Phi Psi is going to be amazing........absolutely gorgeous. As far as I know.....I thought they were on suspension till like 2009?? Maybe I missed something.

tallgreekalum · #5 11-30-2006, 02:28 PM

First, I want to say that Alpha Delt will never be (or want to be) the biggest fraternity in the world(although we probably were....... in 1839

We have 30 chapters and affiliates, and don't plan on being any bigger than 45-50 chapters.

While we have some big houses, I don't think any break into the top 25, but I know a few hold big numbers, 80-90 guys, but they still use sleeping porches!

We do have some of the most valuable (as in most expense to replace) houses, with our Cornell house often cited as one of the most beautiful houses in the country. The GOTE Haus (chapter room), which is a separate building with no apparent entrance, would take 2-300,000 to replace. You could land a plane in the living room, and fit my chapter house in the lobby. The woodwork, the fireplaces......
Many of our northeastern chapters have gorgeous old mansions, built when stone masons and carpenters made dirt!

blackngoldengrl · #6 11-30-2006, 05:20 PM

That Phi Psi house...it's a house?! It's huge! It kind of reminds me of a resort cabin or something...phew!

Texas Beta · #7 11-30-2006, 05:38 PM

They are removed from campus, but they're still going to remain here and rush and just wait it out. I'm sort of jealous myself. To much has been poured into that house.

macallan25 · #8 11-30-2006, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Texas Beta

They are removed from campus, but they're still going to remain here and rush and just wait it out. I'm sort of jealous myself. To much has been poured into that house.

Yeah......that is what I understood. Either way.....I am really wondering if they are ever going to build that sucker......I remember them talking about it my freshman year.

banditone · #9 05-01-2007, 11:04 AM

PURDUE has some HUGE monster houses.

TheFratBoyNews · #10 05-01-2007, 10:46 PM

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

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