what is the largest house - Page 4

Texas Beta · #46 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 · #47 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 · #48 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 · #49 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 · #50 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 · #51 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.

Texas Beta · #52 11-30-2006, 08:09 PM

Haha yes sir, me too. It's been a great rush tool for them. Lets hope it can be finished within two years. With how long it took them to demolish their old house, we'll see. Sigma Chi is going to return next semester off campus aswell. Phi Psi still holds a two year lease at the Sigma Chi House, after that they're out.

Elise · #53 12-10-2006, 03:58 PM

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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)

I live right next to the Chi O house at UW! I was fortunate enough to be invited for a house tour of it during rush and it is HUGE.
The houses at UW are beautiful

AnchorAlumna · #54 12-11-2006, 12:05 AM

I dunno...super big houses = super big liabilities. So many college students prefer their own apartments...seems like Greeks would be trending toward smaller houses, with bigger meeting rooms and fewer residents. When you have those big houses, it takes a LOT of bodies to fill them to pay the bills. JMHO.

PeppyGPhiB · #55 12-11-2006, 02:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Elise

I live right next to the Chi O house at UW! I was fortunate enough to be invited for a house tour of it during rush and it is HUGE.
The houses at UW are beautiful

I drove by greek row(s) at UW last night, and the streets and their houses looked so beautiful with all their white Christmas lights!

banditone · #56 02-11-2007, 03:18 AM

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Originally Posted by macallan25

I'm surprised the Phi Delt house at FSU was only 4$ million. I know of other houses that were quite a bit more than that.....but not the same size by any means.

I also heard from somewhre that the Delt house at OU (oklahoma) was the largest one story fraternity house in the country or something like that? I dunno, sounded funny, but it is pretty massive.

That Delt house (OU) goes on forever.... It seems like the Oklahoma frats went out, rather then up or down (stories), as most of them seem to take up a lot of actual space.

Chazarelli · #57 05-01-2007, 01:16 AM

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

Chazarelli · #58 05-01-2007, 01:22 AM

Better pics.

http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q.../Expansion.jpg

http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q...elli/House.jpg

NutBrnHair · #59 05-01-2007, 02:43 AM

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

eta: Wait -- where is this?

coRHOlation07 · #60 05-01-2007, 03:28 AM

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.