Campus Guide

Princeton Architectural Press will be publishing a Senior Lecturer‘s Dartmouth Campus Guide, with photos by college photographer Joseph Mehling: at Amazon during February.

[Updated 07.12.2005: The press since has withdrawn plans to publish the text, and it appears in the out-of-stock list of Princeton Architectural Press.]

[Updated 07.30.2006: The press states that the book has been canceled.]

[Updated 11.17.2007: The press will publish a campus guide in 2008.

[Updated 06.29.2008: Dartmouth College: The Campus Guide was published on June 1.]

Planning for north campus projects

Trustees are moving ahead on planning, The Dartmouth reports.:

  • Construction on the Maynard Street dormitory is set to begin in less than eight months.
  • Designs for Kemeny Hall have been presented, construction to begin fall 2003.
  • Bradley and Gerry will be demolished.
  • Phi Tau will be moved west (toward Main Street).
  • A new parking garage at the Thayer School was approved.

Planning ideas

Reid Coggins ’04, student representative to a campus planning committee, notes several new ideas in discussion:

  • Tentative plans to demolish Hinman (the River Cluster dormitory) and build a new Tuck School building in its place
  • Longer-term plans to alter or even demolish the Choates
  • Plans to add to Sudikoff to provide more space for Computer Science
  • Plans by the Church of Christ for renovations that may improve the Berry-Maynard vista.

Projects contemplated

President Wright noted several facilities projects underway or contemplated in his Annual Report to the General Faculty:

  • Thayer School addition
  • Cancer Center at DMS/DHMC
  • Residential and administrative space at the Tuck School
  • Kemeny Hall (mathematics, on Shower Towers site)
  • Academic Centers adjoining Kemeny (see above)
  • Incremental space for Computer Sciences
  • Arts facilities improvements (study under way by Rogers Marvel Architects)
  • Life Sciences building (a “shared facility” that “bridges the Arts and Sciences and the Medical School”)
  • Classroom renovations, ongoing
  • Renovations to Alumni Gymnasium and Thayer Dining Hall
  • Heating Plant capacity expansion
  • New parking deck