The Digging Dartmouth project for the spring, led by Anthropology Professor Jesse Casana, investigated traces of the Brown House, which stood south of Parkhurst (Dartmouth News video, The Dartmouth). The article in The Dartmouth provides this heartbreaking tidbit:

Casana felt inspired to investigate Dartmouth’s subterra after observing some not-very-archaeological excavation of the lawn outside his office in Silsby Hall. He noticed that as crews were digging trenches to lay pipes for the new Irving Institute, they had unwittingly unearthed the remains of the foundation of an 1850s-era household.

As always, Professor Casana’s work is to be praised and the college’s ongoing failure to investigate ahead of construction is to be disparaged.