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Charles Alonzo Rich
Builds the New Dartmouth
1893-1914

I. The University Arrives
II. Democracy
III. Spirit
IV. The Anomaly

Epilogue
Works Han. | other
Bibliography


1 Lin-Yi Ho, "Impressions of Undergraduate Life at Dartmouth," Dartmouth Alumni Magazine 4, no. 3 (January 1912): 87-88.

2 This paper is a version of a master's thesis presented in the School of Architecture, University of Virginia in May, 1998. The epilogue and appendices have been added since. The nucleus of this paper originally appeared in The Dartmouth College Library Bulletin, n.s. 38, no. 2 (April 1998): 63-80.



Fig. 1. Charles Alonzo Rich
(Dartmouth College Library)



Fig. 2. Map of campus, 1919
(Tucker, 310)



Fig. 3. Dartmouth Hall old and new
(Emerson, ed., [63])



Fig. 4. Alumni Gymnasium
(postcard)



Fig. 5. Heating Plant
(Emerson, ed., [105])



Fig. 6. Parkhurst Hall
(postcard)

3 For Rich's buildings see Appendix B.



Fig. 7. William Jewett Tucker
(Keyes and Clark, eds., 50)



Fig. 8. Einstein and Ernest Fox Nichols
(Brown and Rieser, 25, from Dartmouth College Library)



Fig. 9. Wilson Hall
(postcard)

4 Robert French Leavens and Arthur Hardy Lord, Dr. Tucker's Dartmouth (Hanover: Dartmouth Publications, 1965), 11.

5 Sanborn C. Brown and Leonard M. Rieser, Natural Philosophy at Dartmouth: From Surveyors' Chains to the Pressure of Light (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1974), 59.

6 William Jewett Tucker, My Generation: An Autobiographical Interpretation (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1919), 90-99.

7 Leavens and Lord, 15.

8 Tucker, 188, 198.

9 Charles E. Widmayer, Hopkins of Dartmouth (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1977), 15.

10 Alexander A. McKenzie, Class of 1891 held the office from 1895-98 and was Superintendant of Buildings and Grounds 1898-1904; Edgar Hayes Hunter, 1901 was Superintendant 1904-1912; Harry Artemas Wells, A1910 was Superintendant 1912-20, according to Alumni Files, Special Collections, Dartmouth College Library.

11 Tucker, 354.



Fig. 10. New Hampshire Hall
(Barrett, 121)

12 Tucker, 304; The Dartmouth 29 (20 March 1908): 495.

13 Frederick Rudolph, American College and University: A History (New York: Vintage Books, 1962), 268, 291-4.

14 Leavens and Lord, 57.

15 Tucker, 302. The Chadler School dated to 1854 and was an equivalent of the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale and the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard, both of the late 1840s.



Fig. 11. Culver Hall
(postcard)

16 The New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, the state's land grant institution, began in Hanover in 1866 in association with Dartmouth, sharing its president among other things. In 1892 New Hampshire College sold to Dartmouth its Experimental Farm, which the College devoted to the Alumni Gymnasium and fields; the Culver Hall chemistry building (1870, demolished 1929), which Edward Dow of Concord had designed and which stood across from the end of Crosby Street; the Conant Hall dormitory (1873-4, demolished 1925 except for kitchen), which the College renamed Hallgarten; and the 1888-9 Government Experiment Station on South Park Street, which served the farm and which the Thayer School occupied. The College also acquired the dormitory South Hall (1795, burned 1888) on the northwest corner of Main and Maple Streets; the frame workshop-cum-dormitory Allen Hall south of Conant (ca. 1874, demolished 1919) which the College made its infirmary, as well as several farm buildings on the southeast corner of Park and East Wheelock Streets. N.H.C. moved to Durham where Dow & Randlett designed the new buildings to a landscape plan of Charles Eliot as John P. Hall, et al. note in their History of the University of New Hampshire 1866-1941 (Durham: University of New Hampshire Press, 1941), 25ff.



Fig. 12. Wilder Hall
(postcard)

17 Leavens and Lord, 85; Widmayer, 225.



Fig. 13. Medical School
(Barrett, 103)



Fig. 14. Tuck Hall
(postcard)

18 Tuck Hall is now known as McNutt. Tuck, class of 1862, gave several other buildings in the state including the New Hampshire Historical Society building in Concord of 1909-11, which Guy Lowell designed. College trustee Kimball filled the diffucult chairmanship of the N.H.H.S. building committee as James L. Garvin describes in "The Creation of 'New Hampshire's Temple of History,' 1900-1911," Historical New Hampshire 47, nos. 1&2 (Spring/Summer 1992): 33-61. At Dartmouth Tuck later funded Jens Larson's Tuck and Stell Halls and Chase and Woodbury Houses, the 1930 business school complex, as well as the 1912 Tuck Drive that landscape architect Bremer Whidden Pond, class of 1907, designed. Pond, later of Pond & Robinson in Cambridge, would also be the Charles Eliot Professor of Landscape Architecture at Harvard 1928-50 and chair of the department, according to the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine 49 (December 1959).

19 Leavens and Lord, 55; The Dartmouth23 (21 March 1902): 406.

20 Frank Basil Tracy, "How the Colleges Start," Boston Evening Transcript, 20 October 1906, 2.

21 Rich's dormitories are Richardson, the Fayerweathers, Wheeler, New Hubbard, Massachusetts Row, New Hampshire and Hitchcock; College Hall also had dormitory space on its upper floors. Rich's major dormitory additions are Sanborn and Crosby Halls. The College also remodeled several other houses into dormitories including Elm House at 36 College Street, the Noyes House at 20 North Main Street and the Shurtleff-Brown House at 12 North Main Street, according to The Dartmouth 30 (29 September 1908): 19; "To the Trustees of Dartmouth College," Hanover, 27 May 1899, printed report in Dartmouth College Trustees, Committee on Buildings and Improvements, DA 502, Special Collections, Dartmouth College Library.

22 Rudolph, 331-3.

23 Laurence R. Veysey, Emergence of the American University (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965), 264.

24 Rudolph, 334.



Fig. 15. Blair and Stafford Little Halls, Princeton
(Architectural Record 27, no. 2, 136).

25 Donald Drew Egbert, "The Architecture and the Setting," in Modern Princeton (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947), 86-91.



Fig. 16. Columbia University proposed view by H.M. Pettit
(King, King's New York Views)



Fig. 17. Columbia University proposed site plan
(Four American Universities, 191)

26 Francesco Passanti, "The Design of Columbia in the 1890s, McKim and His Client," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 36, no. 2 (May 1977): 69.
27 William Jewett Tucker, Report to Trustees (1906-7): 3, cited in Leavens and Lord, 167.
28 G.A. Green, "Woodin' Up," in H.J. Hapgood and Craven Laycock, eds., Echoes of Dartmouth: A Collection of Poems, Stories and Historical Sketches by the Graduate and Undergraduate Writers of Dartmouth College (Hanover, 1895), 126; The Dartmouth42 (23 February 1921): 2.

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