A granite post on North Main Street (visible to the left of the pickup in a Math Department photo) has been left up during the construction of the latest building adjacent to it, Kemeny Hall. The post appears to be the last surviving element of confectioner E.K. Smith’s 1868 house.
[Update 12.31.2006: construction photos showed the post lifted out of the ground, and photos of the completed Kemeny Hall do not show it.]
The Howe Library has completed a major addition (The Dartmouth | Valley News) to its SBRA building. The addition was designed by Gerrit Zwart and built by Trumbull-Nelson.
Smith & Vansant Architects of Norwich have remodeled and added a new rear facade (2000) to the Robert Strong Memorial Building (1959) of the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen, across from the Hop.
Front (north) and side (west) facades of Strong Memorial
A planning group has made available a set of drawings related to the Dresden Village Center idea. A small second town may emerge near Reservoir Road, concentrating the various elements that already exist there in scattered form.
Banwell Architects designed the addition of a humane shopfront to the Fleet Bank Building of Kenneth Parry Associates at 63 South Main Street. From the east:
The firm of Jonathan Marvel ’82 (Rogers Marvel) has made available photos of a model of their master plan for the arts district (ca. 2002). The design foresees addition to the east and west ends of Spaulding Auditorium, the replacement of the Hop studios (and Charles Moore’s Courtyard Cafe), and, most notably, an extension of the Hop’s entrance facade to the west that would double the width of that facade on the Green and provide much-needed infill for the gap in the street line.
The Hood Museum would be extended south to Lebanon Street. A view to the southeast from near the site of Brewster Hall allows a glimpse through this Hood extension and into the courtyard. Though a master plan is only a projection, the Visual Arts Building on Lebanon Street is in progress by Machado and Silvetti.
[Updated 08.30.2005.]
Wayne Cripps makes available dozens of photos of Elms of Dartmouth, including photos of the two most important ones: the Hikers’ Elm at the southwest corner of the Green, and the Parkhurst Elm.
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 has purchased Serry’s on Lebanon Street (The Dartmouth, Valley News) and the building appears to be undergoing a major renovation:
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).
Architecture Incorporated of Boulder, Colo. designed the master plan and community center for Kendal at Hanover, the 250-unit continuing-care retirement community north of town just past CRREL and Rivercrest [Terraserver aerial]. Perkins Eastman Architects PC of NY designed some or all of the Kendal’s housing; the site includes an 1801 farmhouse that was renovated in 1998 to serve as a guesthouse.
Charles Tseckares and Christopher Hill, “When Gown Builds Town: Schools That Do Good Business,” College Planning and Management (November 2003), mention the College-Town building recently built at 7 Lebanon Street to designs by CBT/Childs Bertman Tseckares Inc., the architectural firm in which the authors are partners. Donald Maurice Kreis also writes about the building in “A Dignified “Background Building” for Hanover.”
The school has renamed at least one street and has given several others official names for the first time recently, part of the national “rural addressing” movement made necessary by states’ enhanced 9-1-1 emergency dispatching. (The school’s E-911 page was updated July 2004.) People across the country are getting the chance to give their driveways official names now that every building must have a unique street address; Madison, N.H., for example, lets residents of every street with three buildings on it propose a new name. A few examples from the latest school map (2.2mb pdf):
| New Name | Previous | Location |
| Cemetery Lane* | Sanborn Lane | To the Cemetery, leaving North Main between Collis and Robinson |
| Fayerweather Hill Road | On the Terrace, leaving College Street south of Steele | |
| Observatory Road | Into College Park, leaving East Wheelock opposite Crosby Street | |
| Ivy Lane | From Observatory Road to North Park Street | |
| Vox Lane | Off Crosby Street south of Topliff | |
| Boathouse Road | To the Boathouse, leaving Tuck Drive | |
| Tuck Mall | To the River Cluster, leaving Thayer Drive and Tuck Mall | |
| Dewey Field Road | On former Dewey Farm, leaving Maynard and joining College Street opposite North Park Street | |
| *This street was known historically as Cemetery Lane. The name change presumably gives precedence to Sanborn Road, off Lebanon Street. | ||
Dartmouth will build a new visual arts building on Lebanon Street east of the Hopkins Center according to a press release. (See the Downtown Hanover Vision for a general idea of siting; Brewster Hall presumably will be demolished for this project.) Studio Art and Film and Television Studies will move into the building when it is completed. The Dartmouth reported during February 2004 that Machado and Silvetti Associates would design this building; the firm’s Matthew Oudens, project architect for an addition to the Getty Villa and the award-winning Allston Branch of the Boston Public Library (more images), is listed as the project architect.
Construction has begun on the South Block buildings, and Dartmouth’s real estate office has posted a plan of the site [pdf] and information about the individual buildings:
68, 72 South Main [pdf] is a commercial building that runs the full width of the South-Dorrance block, with its front facade divided to represent four different buildings at traditional scales. Truex Cullins and Partners of Burlington, designers of corporate headquarters for Burton Snowboards and Ben & Jerry’s, designed the building.
UK Architects PC of Hanover designed an addition to the Gates House [pdf], formerly Big Green Cuts etc. but now moved back to 3 South Street to contain three apartments.
William Rawn Associates of Boston, designers of the Dreamworks SKG headquarters and earlier houses for Dartmouth, designed buildings containing residential and commercial spaces at 5 South Street (two apartments) [pdf], 7 South Street (six apartments) [pdf], and 9 South Street (four apartments) [pdf].
The school also will build at Five Currier Street.
The Valley News reports on the largest construction boom in recent memory, with $180 million in College and Town projects underway.
