FHC Focus
A Hoosier Home: Fraternity Housing Corporation Completes Renovation
Statistics Beta Delta-Indiana University
31,568 total square feet
122 total bed spaces (more than any other Alpha Gamma Delta chapter!)
(just over)
$5M total cost
Bloomington, Indiana—home to the Indiana University Hoosiers, where basketball is king, red vertical stripes are always in fashion and the Little 500 bike race takes the campus by storm each spring. The Beta Delta Chapter of Alpha Gamma Delta became part of the Hoosier family when the chapter was installed in 1947, and is currently one of 74 thriving Greek organizations on campus. The transformation of Beta Delta’s 1960s post-modern, red brick house into a more traditional, feminine home has been a dream for chapter members and alumnae since the chapter joined the Alpha Gamma Delta Fraternity Housing Corporation (FHC) in 2011. Building a sorority house that provides top-of-the-line safety features and attractive, luxurious furnishings is no small task. In fall 2016, the FHC partnered with architecture
bike room for
27 more than
2,000 individual meals
1314 N. Jordan Avenue, Bloomington, Ind.
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firm Krittenbrink and Associates of Norman, Oklahoma, and Indianapolis-based contractor, Kort Builders, to complete the 31,568-square foot dream home. During the yearlong construction project, members lived in a new fraternity house next door where they could keep a close eye on the progress. “Having a new chapter house means that Alpha Gam will be able to grow more efficiently at IU,” said Rachel Waddey, Beta Delta Chapter President. “It not only houses more members than ever before, it will also enable Beta Delta to recruit competitively in such a sophisticated fraternity/sorority system.” The finished product is a true Hoosier dream, custom-designed to meet Beta Delta Chapter’s every need. Walking up to the Beta Delta house today, it is unrecognizable. The entry welcomes visitors between immense stone columns into a porcelain-tiled two-story foyer. Eyes are immediately drawn to the curved grand