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The Squash Courts Building is being renovated to contain multipurpose spaces.   The College is switching from the North American court to the larger international court, and renovated some of the courts in Berry Gym for that purpose during 2002.   One imagines that the building would not have been so easy to change:

Tully International, which renovated Leverone Field House, also designed a two-hundred-foot long addition to the field house, presumably to extend it westward in the direction of the football field.   The school’s subsequent decision to build a new varsity house behind the east stands may have put this plan on hold.

Benches from the Spaulding Pool addition to Alumni Gymnasium (Charles Alonzo Rich, 1919-1921) have made their way to the office corridors of the gym:

The Leverone Field House designed by Pier Luigi Nervi was renovated recently:

One of the more interesting sculptural installations in Hanover is the infinity scaffolding in the cavernous Karl Michael Pool in Alumni Gymnasium:

Two photos of the stair added to the new Alumni Gymnasium in 1912 and to be altered or demolished in the upcoming renovation:

A press release has more on the Varsity House, soccer field, gym, and other projects.

The Valley News has more on the Trustees’ latest planning.   Deciding to build a new Varsity House alongside a new East Stand has allowed the school to include in its already-begun renovation of Alumni Gym the removal of the recent Manley varsity strength training center.   A student fitness center will take its place in the top of the gym, replacing the existing Kresge facility.

Dartmouth will build a new east stand at Memorial Field adjacent to a three-level varsity fieldhouse according to a press release.   The building will overlook the football field and its upper level will have a good view of the game.   [Updated 06.18.2005.]

The Facilities Planning Office has posted plans for the ongoing major renovations of Alumni Gym designed by Lavallee/Brensinger Architects of Littleton, designers of the Labatts “beer academy” in Manchester.   The work includes installing a mezzanine in the old drill hall (the upper gym space) to create a fitness center there and replacing the squash courts in the Squash Courts building with multipurpose spaces.

The D reports on the renovation of Alumni Gym, which will include the restoration of the gymnasium (i.e. drill hall) space to its original volume by the removal of a recent suspended ceiling.

Dartmouth plans to demolish the massive entance stair, built in two stages between 1909 and 1913, at the front of the historic Alumni Gymnasium as the Planning Board minutes of Jan. 4 explain. [pdf]   The school will build a new stair and entrance ramp.

History of Spaulding Pool added to Rich appendix. [Update: the information has since been removed.]

Response form added. [Update: the information has since been removed.]