The Dartmouth has recently written up the Second College Grant Bicentennial and the Life Sciences Building.
The Grant, Life Sciences articles
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Campus architecture database
The Historic Campus Architecture Project of the Council of Independent Colleges includes an excellent database with information on:
- society halls, such as the fabulous 1850s gothic Diagnothian and Goethean Halls at Franklin & Marshall;
- the better-known Eumenean and Philanthropic at Davidson (with Princeton’s Whig and Clio in this category if Princeton were in the CIC);
- the cold war bunker now used by Amherst as a book depository;
- Middlebury’s Snow Bowl, which combines in one place the functions that emerged at the same times at Dartmouth, such as the late-1930s base lodge (Moosilauke) and the late-1950s ski area with lodge (the Skiway);
- Sewanee’s campus, which lies within its Domain of 10,000 acres and is a bit like putting Dartmouth’s campus in the Grant; and
- Hastings College, which has a casting of Lundeen’s seated Frost, as Dartmouth does.
Grant Bicentennial book
Dartmouth Life and Vox note that Professor of History Emeritus Jere R. Daniell, 1955, and Jack Noon, 1968, have written Dartmouth’s Second College Grant: A History. It will be released on the 24th in the Grant.
This year is the bicentennial of the granting of the Grant.
Landscape master plan
Saucier & Flynn offer a small version of what looks like a lushly-detailed landscape master plan for Dartmouth. The Tuck Mall portion is especially notable, since it shows the initial portion of the mall (what was the entire mall during the 1910s) as a broad academic field lined by paths, and only the more distant portion with a road in the center as is the case now.
The school put a sidewalk in on the north side of the mall last month, according to an article in The Dartmouth. The article did not note whether the sidewalk is the first step in implementing the master plan’s proposal for Tuck Mall.
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[Update 11.12.2012: Broken link to pdf below removed.]
[Update 07.24.2007: The Planning Board minutes of June 6, 2006 suggest that the sidewalk project is an implementation of the master plan.]
Information on College-owned buildings
The Real Estate Office has a thorough database of College-owned rental properties, most of them historic houses.
Figure-ground relationships across campuses
Baltimore firm Ayers Saint Gross has a site that compares the central portions of dozens of college campuses.
Places magazine (January 15, 2005), guest-edited by Frances Halsband, is all about “the place of campus.”
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[Update 11.12.2012: Broken link to ASG site fixed.]
Campus planning
A few well-illustrated recent studies share a recognition of the urban nature of the college campus:
- R.M. Kliment and Frances Halsband (designers of Burke Laboratory) propose a pragmatic route called “The Walk” (pdf) running through several varied urban blocks to tie together isolated properties owned by Brown University.
- Yale’s extensive “Framework for Campus Planning” (pdf) by Cooper, Robertston & Partners maps the trash-collection routes of Yale’s campus while noting that most buildings there have university names as well as street addresses; the scale comparison of Yale to the other Ivies (including “Dartmouth University”) is interesting. The plan covers signage, noting the six official typefaces and proposing a unified system. Cooper, Robertson is also working on Harvard’s huge Allston expansion.
- Oxford has a master plan by Rafael Viñoly for the site of the Radcliffe Infirmary, up by the Royal Oak pub. It offers several Parisian blocks lining pedestrian avenues that focus on the Radcliffe Observatory, which is the chief building of Green Templeton College (Wikipedia).
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[Update 11.12.2012: Broken links to “The Walk,” Cooper, Robertson, and Allston fixed; broken link to Oxford plan pdf replaced with link to website; broken link to Green College replaced with updated link to Green Templeton College.]
Landscape projects explained
Landscape architects Saucer + Flynn have posted new information including descriptions of eight projects for Dartmouth as well as landscapes for North Park Street Graduate Student Housing, 7 Lebanon Street, the DHMC, projects in Centerra, and the Sphinx.
The firm also designed a wrought-iron fence for Skull & Bones in New Haven, which is not the kind of landscape project you see every day.
Preserving the Zeta Psi house?
In “Zeta Psi Rising,” Michael Edgar posited that the recent lack of maintenance of Jens Larson’s Zeta Psi house was so great that the cost of repairs and code compliance might make demolition and replacement cheaper. The source of this speculation is not clear.
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[Update 11.12.2012: Broken link to Review article removed.]
Hood construction film
The Hood Museum has an interesting film of still photos from the construction of the museum in the early 1980s.
Skiway history
The Dartmouth Skiway is 50 years old. Skiway history articles appear in Dartmouth Life and elsewhere.
Architect Jorge Silvetti to speak Feb. 7
The Hood calendar notes that Jorge Silvetti will speak on architectural theory and recent projects at 5:30 on February 7 in Loew’s. His firm, Machado & Silvetti, is designing a building for the visual arts that will stand behind the Hood Museum and contain a new Loew Auditorium.
Hill Winds Society forms
A new group called the Hill Winds Society appears to combine the one-time functions of the Admissions Office (giving tours) and Palaeopitus (preserving traditions). The group trains its members to give special tradition-based tours of campus. (See the Alumni Relations announcement, the story in The Dartmouth, and a mention in a press release).
One really hates to be a bugbear about this, but the announcement might have been worded differently:
From the Green, the site of the Dartmouth Night bonfire since
18911901 [or the 1940s] and, before then, funeral pyres for sophomores’ math books, all paths lead to tradition: to 105 Dartmouth Hall, where the Great Issues lectures enthralled students in the mid-twentieth century; to Sanborn Library and its dailyhightea; toOccumOccom Pond, where the “polar bears”swimhave swum for the last few years; to Parkhurst, where today’s students shake the hand of President James Wright ’64a during the fall matriculation ceremony; and, of course, to Observatory Hill, where thetriumviratebiumverate of tradition —theBartlett Tower, the Robert Frost statue,and the Old Pine stump — reigns over the campus.[…]
One of the few pines not felled
in 1769, when the College founders razed the woods in the area to build Dartmouth Hallduring the nineteenth century, the Old Pine long stood the test of time on the rocky hill now named Observatory Hill.
Here’s hoping the group is a success.
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[Update 11.10.2012: Broken link to article fixed.]
West Lebanon planning
The Fall 2004 Architecture II/III studio has put together an information-heavy website presenting their plans for West Lebanon. The planning area (visible in this aerial, with the road to the north leading to Hanover) is the subject of proposals one, two, and three. Part of the presentation includes walkthrough views. The proposals have been presented to city authorities and have generated numerous stories in the Valley News.
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[Update 11.10.2012: Broken links removed.]
Baker Bells recordings
The College has posted a recording of Baker’s bells (click “The Bells” on Alumni Relations’ Baker Tower Feature).
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[Update 01.05.2013: Broken link to recording replaced.]
[Update 11.17.2012: Link broken, but it might be because Dartmouth is redoing its website.]
The Fifth-Down Game
Some of the film that helped decide the Fifth-Down Game in 1940 appears in a short documentary about the game. The Review has an article about the game (“Fifth Down and Goal to Go: Dartmouth Spoils Cornell’s Title Hopes”).
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[Update 11.10.2012: Broken link to Review article removed.]
Various building topics
The Dartmouth and Vox have covered a number of building-related topics recently:
- Zoning for the 53 Commons north of Maynard Street
- The dedication of Kemeny Hall and the Haldeman Centers on the Kiewit site
- The Real Estate Office, which is redeveloping the block south of the Hop
- The Faheys’ gifts
- The Records Management office, which has moved out of Centerra to Etna Road in Lebanon:
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[Update 11.10.2012: Broken link to Records Management fixed.]
The King of Assyria
The school is putting on a conference about the carved stone panels that, during the mid-nineteenth century, came from the Palace of King Ashurnasirpal II in Nimrud, Assyria to a number of institutions in the west, including Dartmouth.