I. The University Arrives
Epilogue
29 The Dartmouth 36 (7 November 1914): 2. 30 The Dartmouth 33 (27 April 1912): 1. 31 The Dartmouth 23 (27 September 1901): 23. Adams was President of the narrow-gauge Boston, Revere Beach & Lynne Railroad, advertisements for which give a curious paraphrase of Webster's defense: "It Isn't the Gauge But Service and Rates Which Count," as appears in The Dartmouth 32 (27 October 1910) shows. 32 Veysey, 63. 33 Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, tenth edition (1996), s.v. "democracy." 34 The Dartmouth 25 (9 October 1903): 21. 35 The Dartmouth 23 (1 November 1901): 121. 36 Veysey, 282. 37 Ho, 88. 38 Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth College, (Hanover, 1930), fold-out chart. 39 The Dartmouth 33 (11 March 1912): 2. 40 Dartmouth College Trustees' Records 5 (26 September 1902), Special Collections, Dartmouth College Library, 320. 41 Tucker, My Generation, 312. Rich was the first architect of any note to come out of the College. The other architect-graduates since 1861 included E.H. Ketchum C.S.D. 1873 of Cincinnati; G.E. Melendy C.S.D. 1885 of Detesioler & Melendy in New York, according to The Dartmouth 14 (19 May 1893): 248; Frank Tenney Vaughan 1886 of Keene, N.H.; Fred Wesley Wentworth C.S.D. 1887 of Paterson, N.J. according to Eugene Francis Clark, ed., Register of Living Alumni of Dartmouth College and the Associted Schools (Hanover, 1930), 11-12; and most prominently Frank William Ferguson C.S.D. 1887 non-graduate, of Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson according to obituaries in Dartmouth Alumni Magazine 18 (December 1926) and The Dartmouth 47 (October 1926). 42 Rich was a member of Vitruvian or Sigma Delta Pi, a Chandler fraternity that became a chapter of Beta Theta Pi. The house Rich designed (now Fairbanks South) was not built until 1903-4.
Fig. 18. Hugh Lamb
43 Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography 5 (1894), s.v. "Rich, Charles Alonzo," 237. 44 Tucker, My Generation, 331; Leavens and Lord, 46.
Fig. 19. Hitchcock Hall
Fig. 20. Hitchcock Hall first floor plan 45 In 1961 the rent for each of the two occupants in Room 102 was $525 per year, while in 101 was $475. Office of the Bursar, Dartmouth College Dormitories 1961-1962 (Hanover: Dartmouth College, 1961), 16. 46 The so-called "Gold Coast" of Lord, Streeter and Gile Halls post-dates this period; The Dartmouth 33 (23 October 1911): 3.
Fig. 21. Fayerweather Row
Fig. 22. Fayerweather Hall first floor plan
47 Aegis 1902 (1901), 184.
Fig. 23. South Fayerweather Hall second floor plan
Fig. 24. North Fayerweather Hall second floor plan
48 The small closets in the innter room may be later; in any case the fact that the rooms were of equal size allowed students to divide them equally to avoid sharing, unlike later suites. 49 The Dartmouth 32 (24 September 1910): 1.
Fig. 25. Massachusetts Row
Fig. 26. North Massachusetts first floor plan
50 The Dartmouth 33 (16 November 1911): 1. 51 The Dartmouth 33 (4 March 1912): 1. 52 The Dartmouth 33 (23 October 1911): 3. 53 The Dartmouth 33 (16 November 1911): 1. 54 The Dartmouth 33 (27 April 1912): 4.
Fig. 27. Northrop and Gillet Halls, Smith College
Fig. 28. Northrop Hall first floor plan
55 Charles Alonzo Rich, [List of commissions], [ca. 1888-1924], MS in possession of author. According to Rich's list his other Smith buildings are Baldwin House (1908), Graham Hall (1910), John M. Greene Hall (1910-11) and Burton Hall (1913). See Harriet Seelye Rhees, Laurenus Clark Seelye (Boston: Houghton & Mifflin Co., 1929): 57, 228, 310.
Fig. 29. Astral Apartments, New York
56 James T. Dillon, "Astral Apartments Landmarks Preservation Commission Report" (New York: New York Landmarks Preservation Commission, 1983), 2. 57 American Architect and Building News 20, no. 568 (13 November 1886): 230-1. 58 Dillon, 2. 59 National Cyclopaedia of Amerian Biography 9 (1899), s.v. "Pratt, Charles," 423. 60 The Dartmouth 35 (27 October 1913): 2. 61 The Dartmouth 34 (19 September 1912): 2. 62 The Dartmouth 34 (7 November 1912): 1. 63 The Dartmouth 35 (18 September 1913): 1. 64 Leavens and Lord, 15-16.
Fig. 30. Robinson Hall
66 The Dartmouth 35 (23 June 1914): 1. 67 Robinson ran W.F. Robinson & Co. and later directed the United Shoe Machinery Company; he was a two-term Representitive in the Massachusetts Legislature in 1875 and 1876. His brother Frank M. Robinson graduated in 1855. W.F. Robinson donated the 1912 Reading Town Hall in Felchville, Vermont and the Union Church of South Reading, Vermont according to Harry E. Robinson, ed., Wallace Fullam Robinson (Cambridge, Ma.: University Press, 1917), 29-105. Robinson also gave the 1917 Maternity Building at the Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital in Boston, called the Jennie M. Robinson Memorial Building, designed by Kendall, Taylor & Co. as noted in the American Architect 111, no. 2142 (10 January 1917): 17-21. 68 Keyes, of the Class of 1900, had studied art at the Pratt Institute and in Europe and was an important force in design at the College as the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine 29 (November 1938) notes on p.13. Keyes designed one of the few non-Rich projects of the period 1893-1914, the 1908 Rollins Chapel apse extension, and might have worked on the 1912 transept extensions. He also designed with R.L. Taylor the 1912 Psi Upsilon house, according toThe Dartmouth 29 (24 April 1908): 567; and he laid out the seating and portrait arrangements for Webster Hall, as well as the furnishings in the Trophy Room in Alumni Gym. Most importantly, he became the Business Director of the College in 1913, representing the building committee, then called the Committee on Business Administration, directly to the Trustees. He would later become founding editor of the Magazine Antiques as his obituary notes inThe Dartmouth 34 (10 March 1913). An obituary in The Dartmouth: 60 (10 October 1938) credits Fred W. Wentworth with the Psi Upsilon house.
Fig. 31. College Hall
69 The Dartmouth 33 (8 January 1912): 2.
Fig. 32. College Hall Trophy Room
70 The Dartmouth 24 (27 March 1903): 408. 71 The Dartmouth 24 (24 April 1903): 425. 72 The Dartmouth 33 (10 February 1912): 4; The Dartmouth 36 (22 October 1914): 2. 73 Boston Evening Transcript, 2 December 1912, 12. 74 The Dartmouth 28 (5 October 1906): 23. 75 Dartmouth Bi-Monthly 3 (June 1908): 223. 76 The Dartmouth 33 (23 October 1911): 1.
Fig. 33. New Hubbard Hall
77 Dartmouth Bi-Monthly 2 (October 1906): 22. 78 Dartmouth Bi-Monthly 1 (August 1906): 309. 79 Widmayer, 14; The Dartmouth 19 (22 April 1898): 371. |
