what is the largest 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