Post a picture of your Fraternity or Sorority house

[Titchou]

Originally Posted by AnchorAlumna

And what if 25 members refuse to live in the house and they have empty beds? What happens if we have a recession and enrollments drop, and new member class numbers drop?
I just don't understand why chapters are building these huge houses that have to be supported with lots and lots of new members every year. There are ALWAYS going to be years of lower quotas. But those mortgage payments never drop, nor do the costs of heating, cooling and maintaining the place.
With off-campus housing the norm now, I really thought the future of fraternity housing would be lodges - housing for a limited number of students, with plenty of room for meetings and storage, with those areas supported by "parlor" fees from non-resident members.
Guess I was wrong.

Actually, more and more schools are requiring that freshman live on campus. So the transition to living in a fraternity or sorority house is not that difficult. It's more problematic where they don't start out living on campus.
And of course, the housing has to meet the standard that other campus housing does. We are seeing lots of Greek housing complexes with houses that sleep only 20-40 members and the chapters have over 100 members. See Southern Miss, South Florida, etc.

[Elephant Walk]

Originally Posted by banditone

It is a MONSTER.



Installation in 2007


http://dailyheadlines.uark.edu/9019.htm

* "The property is located on the corner of Whitham and Maple streets in Fayetteville. The lot is located across the street from the Inn at Carnall Hall and is in between the Kappa Kappa Gamma and Sigma Chi houses."

* "The 30,000-square-foot house will sleep 85 women and cost $4 to $5 million."

Rumor was they're putting tanning beds and workout equipment in it. Don't know the truth on that.

It's got a great location, kind of at the edge of campus but on Sorority Row. It's going to be a great house once built. As I'm told, the AOPi headquarters knew that they had to do well in the SEC, and to do well they had to kick in alot of money for a big house. It's impressive.

[banditone]

Having a gym/workout room setup would be very pimp.

A tanning bed would be overkill.

[KenUDiggit]

The tanning bed could be great depending on how pale the pledge class is.

[inger]

Here something from the other side of the pond:

Walhalla Wuerzburg (Germany)

The house was build by alumni between 1904-1907. Property is completely owned by the fraternity (no university or "whatsoever" involvement).

Front (by day):


Front (by night):

[SWTXBelle]

That's beautiful.

[GPhiBLtColonel]

The Gamma Phi Beta house at Southern Cal! There used to be a frat house next door (on the left in this photo) and my bedroom overlooked it...back in the day, a lot of us sisters would gather and peek into the frat house livingroom when they had strippers!!!!!!!!


The frat house is gone now and we own the lot - there is a courtyard and parking lot and a great big front yard!

[GPhiBLtColonel]

Here is our chapter house at UGA

[Musicwalksuhome]

Phi Mu at Wake Forest
At wake (most) greeks have halls/lounges in different resident halls.
We have our own building that only Phi Mus live in but its owned by the univeristy. Nothing special but its our home. The picture of the outside isn't the best and I will take a picture of the side where our letters are.


outside


part of our lounge, we repainted since this picture was take and the walls are not that ugly pale yellow color.

[bellwisdom]

Originally Posted by AnchorAlumna

And what if 25 members refuse to live in the house and they have empty beds? What happens if we have a recession and enrollments drop, and new member class numbers drop?
I just don't understand why chapters are building these huge houses that have to be supported with lots and lots of new members every year. There are ALWAYS going to be years of lower quotas. But those mortgage payments never drop, nor do the costs of heating, cooling and maintaining the place.
With off-campus housing the norm now, I really thought the future of fraternity housing would be lodges - housing for a limited number of students, with plenty of room for meetings and storage, with those areas supported by "parlor" fees from non-resident members.
Guess I was wrong.

I completely agree with you 100% Bigger isn't always better. The ATO and FarmHouse chapters at my school have the smallest houses and always have the biggest pledge classes, so I don't think that a chapter HAS to have the huges houses in order to be a successful chapter. Huge houses make the chapter focus more on quantity over quality and that infuriates me so much. I see so many pretty, big, and fancy houses with a bunch of men/women who lack brotherhood/sisterhood because the physical house is more important to them then the people in the Chapter. I also say this because I know/see a lot of the non-housed greeks on campus and at events and they seem so much tighter because the last thing they have to worry about is filling some huge house and all of the finances that go with it. Just my $18.55.

[GPhiBLtColonel]

More Gamma Phi houses:

Univ of Oregon


Univ of North Dakota


Univ of Wisconsin Oshkosh


Washington State Univ


Univ of Idaho


Univ of Nebraska Lincoln


Univ of Illinois


Rutgers

[SWTXBelle]

I've always loved the University of Oregon house.

[breathesgelatin]

Originally Posted by banditone

U. of Tex people, anyone know if this is ever going to get built?

From what I hear (this is direct from a Phi Psi active at UT), not anytime soon.

[atomicflowers]

Originally Posted by Benzgirl

Pretty house. Do you have any pictures of the Alpha Gam house at U of A? I have a hard time finding one on their site.

sorry that this took me FOREVER to accomplish, but here is a picture:


it's like 2 years old now? the inside of the house is beautiful

[FlaGirl07]

I didn't feel like going through 74 pages to see if it'd been posted yet, so here is my house at FSU!