The campus urban space north of Berry Library does not seem to have an official name yet. Although it is smaller and less formally designed than the Green or Tuck Mall, it is analogous to those two spaces in the way it extends from Baker Library, and Dartmouth is about to give its landscape an ambitious redesign by Richard Burck Associates. The space needs an official name.
Here’s hoping it gets called Berry Row, a name that several people have suggested already.* The name is conservative, and it makes sense: the three buildings that will line the west side of the space (Kemeny Hall, some future building, and Moore Hall) are analogous to the three-part Dartmouth Row and its progeny, Fayerweather Row and Massachusetts Row. Each of those rows creates a public space in front of it that may also be known by the name of the row.
Particular sites within the space still may have their own names, such as the proposed Alumni Plaza (nixed in 2007 Class Treasurers Meeting pdf).
*”Berry Row” was big in 1998:
- [William D. Brawley?], Interface 29:2 (Winter 1998), 10 (pdf).
- Alex Shartsis, “New Math Building Will Honor Kemeny,” The Dartmouth (22 July 1998).
- William D. Brawley, “For Some People, It’s Becoming Increasingly Difficult to Tell Where Traditional Libraries Stop and Traditional Computing Services Begin,” Dartmouth College Library Bulletin (November 1998).
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[Update 11.12.2012: Broken link to 2006 Class Treasurers Report replaced with link to 2007 report.]
[Update 08.31.2013: Broken link to 2007 report pdf removed.]