Category Archives: other projects

About a variety of construction projects including McCulloch Hall, Centerra, the Boss Tennis Center, Whittemore Hall, faculty housing on Grasse Road and on Park Street, Carpenter Hall, the Skiway, 7 Lebanon Street, Fairbanks North, McNutt, Robinson, the Heating Plant, and others.

General construction update

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In general construction news, Guy C. Denechaud writes that “Projects Are Plentiful at Dartmouth College,” Valley Business Journal (April 7, 2008).

The Valley News reports that the fieldhouse at Burnham, called the Sports Pavilion, is open as the clubhouse for the soccer and lacrosse teams. The school will add an athletic trainers’ facility to the north side of the building in the future.

Alpha Theta is also working on repairs to comply with the Fuller Audit.

The Dartmouth reports that Bartlett Hall is being rehabilitated.

New Hampshire Hall’s exterior was photographed prior to the expansions that is under way now.

East Wheelock Cluster “Quad”

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An article about the College Arborist mentions transforming the East Wheelock Cluster’s “quad” from mere grass into a somewhat unusual garden. The article also notes that the school trims the linden tree in front of the Hop with the Modernism of the building in mind, which is interesting.

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[Update 05.11.2013: Broken link to Parents News article removed.]

College buys two Larson houses for campus groups

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Dartmouth’s design office updated its complete list of projects in December (pdf). Renovations of New Hampshire Hall and the Inn are in the works, along with the creation or upgrading of a multipurpose sports field.

Dartmouth has also bought and is renovating the neighboring houses at 25 and 27 South Park Street and plans to rent each one to a sorority. Alpha Xi Delta will move from Webster Avenue, where it has rented the Beta Theta Pi House, and Alpha Phi will occupy a house for the first time, The Dartmouth reports. Both have been identified as designs of Jens Larson.

25 South Park

This is the front (west) facade of number 25.

27 South Park

This is number 27. To the right at number 29 is Fire & Skoal, also a Larson design.

27 South Park

The houses screen Thompson Arena.

Hanover Country Club logo changes

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The Hanover Country Club no longer uses its ski jump logo, and it seems to have adopted the pine from Dartmouth’s Bicentennial flag, as the Club’s home page indicates.

The jump was demolished in 1993, and there is a plaque on its site.

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[Update 01.05.2013: Broken link to flag replaced; broken link to plaque image removed.]

“Whittemore Green” as a name

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As the irregular grassy plot in front of the River Cluster becomes better defined and and is transformed into a front door to the Tuck School (through the school’s Whittemore Hall), the space needs a name.

Landscape architects Saucier & Flynn have mentioned “Whittemore Green” in town planning meetings (pdf).

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[Update 11.17.2012: Broken link to 11 July 2006 minutes removed.]

“The Chimneys” rising behind gas station

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The part of Hanover’s downtown that lies below South Street is changing rapidly.

A commercial building called The Chimneys (Randall T. Mudge & Associates, 2006-07) is being built at 2 Maple Street, behind the service station on South Main Street. Guy C. Denechaud wrote in an article in Valley Business Journal (April 6, 2007) that the main tenant of the three-level building will be the Ledyard National Bank‘s
investment offices. The building should open in December. (Thanks, Tim, for the information.)

Sigma Nu addition begun

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The latest of the many societies to graft an addition onto its house to comply with various life-safety and accessibility codes is Sigma Nu, which has posted photographs of the construction of an external brick stair tower behind the north end of its Larson building. The plans and drawings by Haynes & Garthwaite (pdf) are posted.

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[Update 03.31.2013: Broken links to photos and pdf removed.]

Interim dining hall tidbit

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Is the temporary dining hall going to be an inflated bubble? Athletic departments put bubbles over playing fields sometimes, and Dartmouth seems to have considered it, but a May article (cached version) in The Dartmouth Independent described the upcoming interim dining hall as “a temporary ‘bubble-like’ facility serving the two-year interim.”

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[Update 11.12.2012: Broken link to article replaced with link to cached version.]

The steam tunnel continues

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Dartmouth’s steam tunnel continues to stretch northward. A thumbnail sketch:

  • From Heating Plant along the Green to the Berry site (mid-1990s)
  • From Berry site up Berry Row to Moore (around 1998)
  • From Moore, tap into historic hospital tunnel network to reach Kellogg Auditorium and adjoining chiller plant (early 2000s?)
  • From Kellogg, run northward behind Medical School to future Life Sciences Building site (2007).

Name change of campus firm (Atkin Olshin Schade)

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Atkin Olshin Lawson-Bell Architects is now Atkin Olshin Schade and presently features features Collis and Fahey-McLane on its front page.

The firm’s Collis page has some new photos, including one showing the Lone Pine Tavern. The only detailed plan of the Hitchcock renovation yet available is on the site as well.

Photo updates for construction projects

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The OPDC has posted photos of the progress on the new Varsity House (one of the photos shows Memorial Field in the context of the campus), the Montgomery House renovation (check the pondside facade), and the Soccer Field (with the turf in place and grandstand going in).

Most notable are the photos of the landscaping between Berry and Maynard Street, or Berry Row. See the substantial walkway that organizes the whole project, for example.

Inuksuk on McNutt’s lawn

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Artist Peter Irniq (Wikipedia) erected an inuksuk (Wikipedia) on McNutt’s lawn for the Hood Museum (Dartmouth Life; Hood News).

His coat of arms features an inuksuk.

(The Hood has been busy lately, also acquiring, at Sotheby’s, Pompeo Batoni’s 1756 portrait of William Legge, the second earl of Dartmouth.)

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[Update 08.12.2017: Arms image and Wikipedia link removed, replaced with Canadian Bureau of Heraldry link.]

[Update 01.13.2013: Broken link to arms replaced.]