The Valley News presented a story on the proposed Dresden Village back in January. The project sounds as if it will present a new-urbanist contrast to Centerra (map [pdf]), begun two decades ago. Rivercrest (aerial), just past CRREL, presently occupies the village site and is a stereotypically suburban and low-density development.
Dartmouth plans to demolish Thayer Hall (Jens F. Larson, 1937) and replace it with a new dining hall (as mentioned in The Dartmouth).
The view from a webcam shows the walls rising at the eastern trio of dorms in the McLaughlin Cluster.
The recently-completed facilities adjacent Thompson Arena comprise the Boss Tennis Center with its entrance in the Gordon Pavilion, the east facades of which are depicted here:
and the Scully-Fahey Field for lacrosse, field hockey, and other sports. Its triumphal arch is the largest gate at Dartmouth:
Dartmouth has purchased Serry’s on Lebanon Street (The Dartmouth, Valley News) and the building appears to be undergoing a major renovation:
Goody Clancy of Boston, designers of several business school buildings including Whittemore Hall, are designing the Tuck School’s new Living and Learning Complex (Vox) to occupy the site of Hinman Hall, in the River Cluster (site plan pdf).
Hinman, east facade viewed from the east:
Whittemore Hall, front (south) facade:
Some interesting details from the west side of the Green–
Even though the escutcheon (not visible in this photo) at the top of the facade has an “M” for McNutt, the center of the balcony railing retains the “TH” for “Tuck Hall”:
Timothy J. McAuliffe, who had two sons attend the college, sculpted the lions and probably other details on the entrance portal of Robinson Hall:
The entrance vestibule of Parkhurst Hall has a tiled, domed ceiling that may use the popular Guastavino tile system often found in subway stations:
A recent visit to the tower of Baker Library permitted views of the interior of the tower and, amid many other graffiti, a graffito from a member of Sphinx (general story in The Dartmouth). The writing above the arches is illegible (“YLIJV?”), but the “M.K.K.” below presumably stands for “Mystical[al] Krewe of K____” (not Komus, surely?).
The Dartmouth reports that Hitchcock Hall will be renovated after the fall of 2006, a project that will probably include the installation of an elevator.
Changes in the architecture of rowing are in the works: the Fuller Boathouse will be renovated and expanded with a second level (Women’s Crew, Valley News, ivyleaguesports.com) and the Dresden Rowing Club is planning to build a two-bay frame boathouse and a dock on land it owns in Norwich, a few miles upriver from Dartmouth’s Boathouse (Valley News).
College Chaplain Rev. Richard Crocker expects the stained glass windows in Rollins to be repaired beginning during the summer of 2006 according to an interview in the Dartmouth Review. Â The Review also prints Kale Bongers’ historically-minded editorial supporting the restoration.
In his interview, Rev. Crocker related with qualifications the story that the Rollins altar was moved back to the east end during the 1960s and that the sun that shone through the apse windows into the eyes of the audience as a result was part of the reason the school covered the windows. Â The pulpit or lectern had been moved to the southeast corner of the crossing in 1912 when the transepts were lengthened and effectively made into a new nave (the hillside blocked any more expansion to the east).
This is Tuck Drive looking north to the construction site of the two linked Tuck Mall Dorms. The dormitories will block the short leg of the Drive that headed left to join Webster Avenue, lately called “Old Tuck Drive” (though it is, if anything, younger than the main portion of Tuck Drive, which is the portion that connects with Main Street along what is now Tuck Mall. That portion of the Drive will be reopened).
Benches from the Spaulding Pool addition to Alumni Gymnasium (Charles Alonzo Rich, 1919-1921) have made their way to the office corridors of the gym:
The Leverone Field House designed by Pier Luigi Nervi was renovated recently:
A pair of views of interiors in the Ledyard Canoe Club:
One of the more interesting sculptural installations in Hanover is the infinity scaffolding in the cavernous Karl Michael Pool in Alumni Gymnasium:
