The Valley News reports that the Polka Dot Diner building might soon be placed on the list of structures that contribute to the WRJ Historic District.

North Branch Construction completed a heating system conversion in Bartlett Hall.

Bill Platt, in “Archaeology Students Probe Dartmouth’s Underground History,” Dartmouth News (27 November 2017), writes about the activities of a landscape archeology class. Fantastic.

There are solar panels on the roof of the Berry Sports Center (Dartmouth News).

Peak (2 October 2017) has a photo of the expansion of the athletic pavilion out by Burnham Field.

There is controversy about what to do with the unauthorized climbing bolts at Holt’s Ledge (Valley News).

The Valley News reports that a developer proposes to erect a six-story apartment building behind Jens Larson’s former Lebanon Junior High building.

The new pavilion at the Organic Farm, by TimberHomes LLC, is quite a work. Is this one of the most authentically medieval buildings in Hanover?

The college has posted a video about designing the new Ravine Lodge.

A comment on the form and siting of the Irving Institute suggested by the high-resolution version of the one master plan image published by Beyer Blinder Belle: At least in this schematic form, the Institute fills in the hole in front of Murdough, the territory that has been ceded to a Modernist plaza for the last 45 years. Maybe the college will finally answer Baker Tower appropriately. End Tuck Mall Now!

There are often interesting photos at the Construction Updates page, by Campus Services.

NYPL has a geographically-based New York City map browser that lets you examine maps of any site through the decades.

Dartmouth News has a piece on Sanborn Tea.