Dartmouth’s Real Estate office is now renting out Eleazar Wheelock’s Mansion House on West Wheelock Street. Until recently, the house was a flower shop not owned by the College, and Dartmouth even turned down a sale offer in the early 1990s. Does this mean Dartmouth has acquired the house?
The rear addition of brick, built for the Howe Library stacks, is a separate rental unit.
The Valley News reports that Dartmouth College is considering the sale of its nearly-53 percent share in the Hanover Water Works Company, Inc. to the Town of Hanover, which owns the rest of the company.
College towns are typically dominated by their colleges, but having a college share control of the municipal water company seems unusual, if not unique.
In the 1890s, President Tucker pushed Dartmouth to establish the Water Works and the (College) Heating Plant as companion infrastructure projects.
In August of 2010, Dartmouth and UPNE will publish a coffee-table book edited by Richard Pult depicting the posters of Winter Carnival over the years, The Dartmouth reports. Commemorating the Outing Club’s Centennial, the book will depict all of the posters since Hovey Muralist Walter Beach Humphrey ’14 designed the first one in 1911. The design competition began in 1936.
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[Update 12.02.2012: Broken link to news article fixed.]
As mentioned in the Dartmouth Parents & Grandparents Fund newsletter (Winter 2009), the book project underway at the moment is a monograph on Lamb & Rich. This is the same project mentioned back in 2004 and will take a few more years to complete.
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[Update 05.11.2013: Broken link to parents newsletter removed.]
About 85 views have been added to Views of Dartmouth. The most interesting ones are the interior views of the Heating Plant (found in Views > East Side) and old photos of the west and south sides of the Green (in Views > West Side and > General Views).
The Dartmouth reports that Olympia’s planned “boutique” hotel will not be built but that the project has been handed off to another developer.
The plans for the Parkside renovation and addition have been released. It looks like the rear wall is being bumped out under a new gable (see rear facade) and a row of dormers is being added to the front and sides. The chimneys will be lost, which is unfortunate. Here is the building a few years ago:
The DOC Centennial gets a school press release and Vox mention as the subject of this year’s Carnival.
The MIrror is about Blitzmail this week.
Heraldry and the history of pong collide in a shirt available from On the Hill.
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[Update 01.13.2013: Broken link to On the Hill removed.]
A couple of articles (one in pdf) explain how Barnard College used one of the Getty Foundation’s grants to create a plan for the preservation of Charles Rich’s historic campus. It turns out that Getty has shut down its campus heritage grant program, as the Chronicle‘s campus blog laments; there was even a story in the Wall Street Journal on the program shutting down after funding plans at 86 institutions.
The physical campus section of President Wright’s ten-year report mentions all the work done at Dartmouth over the last decade.
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[Update 01.13.2013: Broken link to Barnard articles removed.]
Rollins Chapel’s ca. 2004 renovation, the one that uncovered the windows, was designed by Theriault/Landmann Associates of Maine.
Architect Orliff Van Heik Chase of Shepley Rutan & Coolidge designed some work on the Delta Tau Delta house at Dartmouth according to William Collin Levere, Leading Greeks (1915). The basis for the work, perhaps an addition, appears to have been the fraternity’s 1874 house at 36 North Main (burned 1936). A 1915 view of the house hints at a “goat room” addition between the house and the barn. Another view appears in Barrett’s Hanover, N.H.. Chase was a 1908 Wesleyan graduate who designed houses for the fraternity at Wesleyan and Tufts as well.
A press release notes that Dartmouth received 700 acres of forested land in Corinth, Vermont, in the 1920s. The property, about 35 miles away, has been the source of timber used in College construction projects, including the McLane Family Lodge at the Skiway. The College recently conveyed to the Upper Valley Land Trust the right to develop the property extensively; some logging will continue.
Dartmouth is going ahead with Haynes & Garthwaite‘s extensive renovation of Howard Major‘s Parkside Apartment for a sorority, but not the historic James Brown House, The Dartmouth reports (an earlier report said otherwise).
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[Update 01.13.2013: Broken link to H&G site replaced.]
The Dartmouth reports that DHMC, less susceptible than Dartmouth to changes in endowments, is going ahead with construction of the two-story Outpatient Surgery Center begun in November across the loop road from the main complex (press release).
New renderings of the Visual Arts Center have appeared on the Project Page. Where an early page by the firm stated an area of 80,000 square feet, and articles accompanying the initial renderings pegged the building at 96,500 to 99,500 square feet, the “revised program analysis,” surprisingly, identified a need for more area rather than less: it’s now at 105,000 square feet.
The November renderings show a building that seems to have the same basic form and numbers of bays as before. The renderings include plans for the first time. The idea of ground-level retail does not seem to have survived, but the artist-in-residence gets a fantastic perch in the lantern above the campus-side entrance.
Elevation drawings also emerge for the first time, along with contextual views from Lebanon Street and a site plan and photo of a model showing the plaza framed by Spaulding.
There are also images of a sectional model of the arts forum, which is the atrium close to the Lebanon Street entrance, and other views.
This building should look expensive.
[Update 01.10.2009: Two watercolors by Jeff Stikeman have been added.]
Engineer Richard D. Kimball and his firm helped design Dartmouth’s Heating Plant and original network of steam pipes in the mid-1890s. It turns out that RDK Engineers is still around and claims that its project at Dartmouth was the first underground steam distribution system in the country.
The 2001 Arts Center Infrastructure Analysis (pdf) by Rogers Marvel with Ove Arup suggests that the heat plant eventually move to Dewey Field, north of the Medical School. That would allow the Hood Museum or other arts functions to take over the old plant building.
Although the Provost’s November 13 letter stated that the Visual Arts Center project would be delayed up to six weeks for a reassessment, the Valley News reported that the school is going ahead with this one before the Planning Board.
The Center will open in March 2012 (VAC project page, projects schedule [pdf]).
The commercial building that Dartmouth’s real estate office is erecting south of Lebanon Street at 4 Currier Street is well under way, as the regular photos taken from behind C&A Pizza show. Â The building will start out housing the Studio Art Department while Clement is demolished and the Visual Arts Center is built. Â Demolition of Clement, along with Brewster Hall and the oil bunker that serves the Heating Plant, will begin in May of 2009.
[Update 12.17.2008: The Big Green Alert Blog recently quoted the VN article’s quotation of John Scherding of OPDC “as saying the college ‘intend(s) to keep moving forward,’ on the project.”]
