The Dartmouth has recently written up the Second College Grant Bicentennial and the Life Sciences Building.
The Grant, Life Sciences articles
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Campus architecture database
The Historic Campus Architecture Project of the Council of Independent Colleges includes an excellent database with information on:
- society halls, such as the fabulous 1850s gothic Diagnothian and Goethean Halls at Franklin & Marshall;
- the better-known Eumenean and Philanthropic at Davidson (with Princeton’s Whig and Clio in this category if Princeton were in the CIC);
- the cold war bunker now used by Amherst as a book depository;
- Middlebury’s Snow Bowl, which combines in one place the functions that emerged at the same times at Dartmouth, such as the late-1930s base lodge (Moosilauke) and the late-1950s ski area with lodge (the Skiway);
- Sewanee’s campus, which lies within its Domain of 10,000 acres and is a bit like putting Dartmouth’s campus in the Grant; and
- Hastings College, which has a casting of Lundeen’s seated Frost, as Dartmouth does.
Grant Bicentennial book
Dartmouth Life and Vox note that Professor of History Emeritus Jere R. Daniell, 1955, and Jack Noon, 1968, have written Dartmouth’s Second College Grant: A History. It will be released on the 24th in the Grant.
This year is the bicentennial of the granting of the Grant.
Landscape master plan
Saucier & Flynn offer a small version of what looks like a lushly-detailed landscape master plan for Dartmouth. The Tuck Mall portion is especially notable, since it shows the initial portion of the mall (what was the entire mall during the 1910s) as a broad academic field lined by paths, and only the more distant portion with a road in the center as is the case now.
The school put a sidewalk in on the north side of the mall last month, according to an article in The Dartmouth. The article did not note whether the sidewalk is the first step in implementing the master plan’s proposal for Tuck Mall.
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[Update 11.12.2012: Broken link to pdf below removed.]
[Update 07.24.2007: The Planning Board minutes of June 6, 2006 suggest that the sidewalk project is an implementation of the master plan.]
Life Sciences site plan, elevations released
The latest Life Sciences Building plans have been posted. The site plan (pdf) is remarkable. The elevation (pdf) of the north facade shows how much lower this somewhat tall building will be than the existing Remsen-Vail.
Hanover buildings with cell-phone antennas
The Dartmouth reports on the use of the tower of the Church of Christ (the White Church) for a cell antenna. Dartmouth leases space on Fairchild Tower accross the street, as well as on the Inn, the article states. The article does not mention Baker Tower, although it must be taller than any of those buildings. Perhaps the tower’s profile and Stanley Orcutt’s weathervane are not suited to hosting antennas.
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[Update 11.12.2012: Broken link to weathervane item replaced.]
Montgomery House renovation photos
The OPDC is indeed renovating Montgomery House (Jens Larson’s house for Adelbert Ames, Jr.) and has posted photos.
Information on College-owned buildings
The Real Estate Office has a thorough database of College-owned rental properties, most of them historic houses.
Visual Arts Center page on architects’ site
The Dartmouth provided an update on the Visual Arts Center, and the designers have an unlinked project page that states:
A new facility for the college’s Studio Art and Film and Television departments, the Visual Art Center represents the consolidation in of two related programs for the first time in the college’s history. The new center occupies a prime location and consequently must function not only as an educational space, but also as a new entrance to the both the campus and the arts precinct. An 80,000 square foot building, stretching along a length of Lebanon Street from the Facility Operations and Management department to Spaulding Auditorium in the Hopkins Center, the new building is given a sizable portal that frames the existing Hood Museum complex and functions as a door to the south entrance of the campus. Commercial programs will mix with the educational functions along the street to further enhance the town’s Master Plan.
Montgomery House work
The ambitious projects schedule of the OPDC (pdf) describes a Montgomery House project, possibly a renovation of Larson’s Rope Ferry Road house for Adelbert Ames.
Other webcams show the campus
Don’t forget the ’66 cam atop the Inn and the one on Baker Tower.
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[Update 06.03.2013: Broken link to ’66 webcam replaced.]
Interim dining hall to be built
The latest project schedule (pdf) provides for the construction of an interim dining hall to take up slack while Thayer is being replaced. This idea was mentioned more than a year ago in The Dartmouth.
It is not clear whether the building itself will be temporary, although the short construction time suggests that it will be. The more temporary it is, the more interesting its siting might be…
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[Update 11.12.2012: Broken link to news article fixed.]
The Black Senior Center on South Park
Trumbull-Nelson has several stories (more, more) on the Black Senior Center (Tennant/Wallace Architects, 2003). Near the corner of Lebanon and South Park Streets, this is as close as Hanover gets to a Flat-Iron Building.
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[Update 11.12.2012: Broken link to three articles fixed, post reworded slightly.]
Designs downtown (12 East South)
UK Architects designed a replacement building for insurance agency Maloney Associates at 12 East South Street, across from the Howe.
Tuck LLC webcam shows construction
Nearly-live views of the construction of the Tuck School’s Living-Learning Center available.
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[Update 11.17.2012: Broken link removed.]
View the PepsiCo Dining Room
The Tuck School’s website includes a panoramic view of the PepsiCo Dining Room in Byrne Hall.
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[Update 11.12.2012: Broken link omitted.]
Floren taking on final appearance
The Big Green Alert Blog has photos of the Floren Varsity House and reports that the building is ahead of schedule.
Photos of model of Life Sciences Building
More detailed plans and photos of a model of the Life Sciences Building are available. The building has a bit of the New Deal Post Office about it (see the Post Office of Old Chester, Pa.), while the gabled greenhouse gives it some of the feeling of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus and thus Pope’s Scottish Rite Temple in Washington, D.C.
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[Update 11.12.2012: Broken link to image fixed.]