Dartmo.: The Buildings of Dartmouth College

The campus enters Google Earth

Google held a contest to encourage students to help populate its rendition of the Earth with three-dimensional building models. Dartmouth’s team was one of the winners (The Dartmouth; news release) and the models have since been placed on the globe for all to see.

The news release explains Dartmouth’s extra attention to history and suggests an eventual grand global GIS:

The Dartmouth team went a step beyond the contest’s expectations to create three separate timelines, 1800, 1900 and 2007, to illustrate how the campus has grown and changed. With input from the Office of Planning, Design & Construction, accompanying material for each building explains when it was built, what it’s used for, who the architect was, and when it was renovated.

Second Life already contains a superb downtown Hanover; someone must be thinking about putting it into Google Earth.

The note above was posted on July 24, 2007 in: All News, History, Preservation, Publications

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Features

Dartmouth's New North Campus Master Plan (2001)

All that Remains of Lewiston, Vermont

Charles Alonzo Rich Builds the New Dartmouth, 1893-1914

John Russell Pope's Master Plan for Dartmouth

Halls, Tombs and Houses: Student Society Architecture at Dartmouth

Farewell to the MHMH

New Hampshire College: The Land-Grant School in Hanover

News

Advertisements

Criticism

Some Points regarding Berry Library's Design

Sprawl and Hanover

A Plea for the Shower Towers: Preservation of Place in the History of Computing

The Thel Controversy

Hopland

Possible Land Swap Would Give Hanover High to Dartmouth

Other

The Buildings and Projects of Lamb & Rich, Architects, and Related Firms, 1876-1935

Dartmouth Law School?

Request for Information on Fred Wesley Wentworth

The Charter

The Persistence of "Wah-hoo-wah," Dartmouth's "Indian Yell," at the University of Virginia

Old Division Football, Dartmouth's Indigenous Mob Soccer

Links Page

Links Out

The Dartmouth Master Plan

Class of '66 webcam on the Inn

The Wheelock Succession

Mt. Moosilauke

Proposal for a Heraldic Coat of Arms

The Dartmouth College Seal

Eleazar Wheelock's Two Schools

Charles N. Haskins and the Woodward Room at Baker Library

The Paul Room at Baker Library

Historic USGS Maps of Hanover

1992 Aerial Photograph of Hanover

The Dartmouth

The Valley News

Buzzflood, the student-run news line

The uvScene, transforming life in the Upper Valley

Architectural criticism by Donald Maurice Kreis

Constructive Images, the Trumbull-Nelson newsletter

About Dartmo.

[RSS 2.0] This site presents one view of the architecture of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.A. The site began with some essays in May 1995 and incorporated the buildings catalog in 1996 and the Rich thesis in June, 1998. (The site was known as DArch initially and was renamed for an abbreviation of the word "Dartmouth.")

The campi of Columbia, Stanford and Amherst are the subjects of readily-available books, but no detailed architectural history of the country's fifth-oldest campus has been written. Dartmouth hosts the important collegiate grouping of Dartmouth Row and comprises some of the largest accumulations of the work of three American architects: Ammi Burnham Young, Charles Alonzo Rich and Jens Fredrick Larson. The campus currently is expanding in a fashion that is self-consciously traditional, which only enhances the need for information about its historic buildings.