• Jens Larson’s house and studio on East Wheelock Street are for sale.
• The Dartmouth has an article on Shattuck Observatory.
• The Valley News reports that the New London, N.H. realtor Four Seasons Sotheby’s International Realty has opened an office in Hanover. It is on Lebanon Street, east of C&A’s Pizza.
• A traffic study (pdf) raised the possibility of erecting a 663-car parking deck atop the Ledyard lot at the bottom of Tuck Drive. A shuttle bus would ferry employees from the lot up to campus. While a pine-screened parking garage alongside the river could be an interesting thing, Dartmouth seems wise to have avoided this scheme, and the consultants declined to recommend it.
• Too bad there’s no tram to the Hospital. The idea of a little train through woods is neat, but it wouldn’t save much time compared to the road, which is relatively direct; it is probably not worth the hassle. And on the other hand it could not run through the woods the whole way: it would have to go down Park Street and then along Lebanon Street.
• The great Reggie Watts (video) was photographed eating a sandwich at Amarna on East Wheelock.
• The computer store is moving to McNutt (The Dartmouth).
• The LSC got LEED’s platinum certification. See also sustainability in The Dartmouth.
• The Radcliffe Observatory Quarter of Oxford occasionally receives coverage here. The old hospital north of the university is still visible in this excellent and somewhat outdated oblique aerial from Bing, with the eighteenth-century observatory owned by the newly-formed Green Templeton College prominent. Most of those buildings have been demolished, as this Google aerial shows:

And now some construction has begun, as this Bing aerial shows:

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[Update 08.19.2012: Tram comment reworded.]