The Maloney Building, designed by U.K. Architects, has opened across from the Howe.
Not-so-traditional Maloney Building opens
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Category Archives: Hanover/Leb./Nor’ch.
Hanover High renovated
The Hanover High complex, including the adjacent middle school, has reopened after a major Banwell renovation. The mechanical contractor has images (High School, more) and the Valley News has a story. The town improved the high school as an alternative to swapping the building with Dartmouth and building a new school north of town.
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[Update 11.12.2012: Broken link to news article removed, broken link to Banwell site replaced.]
Organic Farm remaking old CRREL greenhouse
A news release explains the elaborate remaking of a 1960s Lord & Burnham greenhouse donated by the Cold Regions lab next door.
South Block landscaping
H. Kieth Wagner Partnership, Landscape Architects, has images of the South Block landscaping — paving, ramps, benches, plantings, outdoor seating, and so on.
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[Update 05.03.2014: Broken link to images replaced.]
[Update 03.31.2013: Broken link to images replaced.]
Elms of the College and the Town
The article on elms in Dartmouth Life has an interesting tidbit about town-gown negotiation: the College takes over the care of each elm that the Town has planted on a street that runs through the campus when the tree reaches “a certain stature.”
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.]
Information on College-owned buildings
The Real Estate Office has a thorough database of College-owned rental properties, most of them historic houses.
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.
Where is Sand Hill?
Landscape architects Winston Associates announced during 2004 that Dartmouth had selected Winston and Wolff-Lyon to plan a 200-unit Sand Hill neighborhood that would include an integrated parking/transit transfer center.
Sand Hill does not seem to be a prominent landmark in Hanover or Lebanon. A Parking Committee Recommendation describes Sand Hill as an undeveloped site with room for 450 parking spaces, while the OPDC parking spreadsheet (Excel file) indicates that 300 new parking spots are expected to open in the Sand Hill Lot during fiscal year 2007.
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[Update 11.17.2012: Broken link to Winston link really fixed.]
[Update 11.12.2012: Broken Winston link fixed.]
Wolff Lyon’s master plan for Rivercrest (2004)
The Boulder-based firm of Wolff Lyon Architects, which developed some of the guidelines for the massive redevelopment of Denver’s Stapleton Airport as a town, worked with Boulder landscape architects Winston Associates to complete a master plan for Dartmouth’s total reconstruction of its suburban Rivercrest housing development, north of CRREL and south of Kendal. This project, also known as Dresden Village in planning documents, seems to be taking a while in the town’s regulatory process.
(More on the firm from Wellington in Breckenridge, Colo. Is it coincidence that the master planner for Kendal at Hanover, adjacent Rivercrest, is another Boulder firm, Architecture Incorporated?)
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[Update 11.17.2012: Broken link to Winston really fixed.]
[Update 11.12.2012: Broken links to Winston and Wellington fixed.]
[Update 01.25.2007 Update: Winston link added.]
Upper Valley Rowing Club Boathouse projected
The boathouse of the Upper Valley Rowing Club, formerly the Dresden Rowing Club, is projected to open this year near the Wilder Dam. It appears in a rendering by U.K. Architects of Hanover.
The Connecticut Valley Spectator wrote on the club’s growth, reprinted in Rowing News.
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[Update 11.12.2012: Broken links to firm site fixed and Rowing News omitted.]
[Update 01.24.2007: Link to firm’s site added.]
Dartmouth building Remote Data Center
The December 8, 2006 Capital Project Schedule (pdf) describes a Remote Data Center, a telecommunications network hub a mile and a half from campus, in Lebanon (presumably the 56 Etna Road Data Center, off Route 120).
The building seems to be the one that connects to the campus with a point-to-point radio network described in American School and University Magazine.
Medical School continues to expand
The Medical School will add two new wings to its LeBaron Commons in Lebanon, in association with the hospital: the new Koop Complex, designed by Shepley Bulfinch Richardson & Abbott, will comprise one wing for translational research and another for the Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences (press release | fundraising announcement | building description).
Alfred T. Granger, Hanover architect
The Hanover architect Alfred T. Granger (remembered in the Granger Scholarship [pdf]) was not the same as the well-known Chicago architect Alfred Hoyt Granger, although that is how he was described in the West Wheelock Street Inventory (1993) and elsewhere, including on this website.
Hanover in Second Life
This month’s Wired calls out the digital model of Hanover’s Main Street as one of twenty sights to see in the online community Second Life.
A researcher at the Homeland Security-funded Institute for Security Technology Studies started the project as part of the Institute’s Synthetic Environments for Emergency Response Simulation (run by its ER3 Center).
The researcher later joined The Electric Sheep Company, which the Institute hired to build the model.
Satchmo Prototype has posted photos of the model, and Electric Sheep has 64 more photos.
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[Update 11.10.2012: Broken link below fixed.]
[Update 11.30.2006: The Dartmouth has an article on Hanover in Second Life.]
[Update 09.24.2006: Post rewritten, Electric Sheep information added.]
The Lodge will be demolished
Dartmouth acquired the Sargent Block, which contains the Hanover Inn Motor Lodge (Brooke Fleck, 1960), and it plans to redevelop the entire block. As with the South Block, this means demolishing most of the buildings.
Although the Lodge has been used for the last twenty years or so as a dormitory, it will be closed during the 2006-2007 year. The very attractive new campus map featuring dormitories also omits the Lodge.
These seem to be the first public signs that the Lodge is about to go. It will be interesting to see what the school builds in its place and how closely it follows the Town’s bold vision for the block.
[Update 08.03.2006: text corrected]
[Update 08.09.2006: “Sargent” added]
St. Thomas renovation photos available
More information on the St. Thomas project (earlier post): The addition was designed by architect Richard Monahon, Jr., of Peterborough, N.H., in association with Haynes & Garthwaite Architects of Norwich, Vt. Excellent Richard Frutchey photos accompany Jack DeGange’s article in Trumbull-Nelson’s Constructive Images (Fall 2003). Construction photos are found in T-N’s newsletter.