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The 69-room hotel at Six South Street has opened next to the newish parking garage (Valley News, The Dartmouth).

The Six South Street Hotel has announced that it will open in February. See the exterior photo of the building under construction in September, two interior construction photos on the hotel’s blog, and an article in The Dartmouth.

[Update 01.22.2011: Link to article added.]

• Keep checking the Six South Street Hotel blog for construction photos.
• The New York Times had an article back in 2008 on the legal incentives to identifying “ancient roads” in Vermont. It brings to mind the observations of Christopher Lenney in Sightseeking: Clues to the Landscape History of New England (2005).
• The Hanover Conservation Council provides maps and other information on sites including Mink Brook and Fullington Farm, the latter in the news because it is the site of the boathouse of the Hanover High crew.
• The St. Gaudens National Historic Site in Cornish, just a few miles away from Hanover, has purchased Blow-Me-Down Farm (Valley News).
• Alumni Relations has a gallery of campus trees. Number 7 is the Parkhurst Elm.

The relatively-recent brick building with the giant gable on South Street (Street View) has been demolished, and construction on the hotel Six South Street has begun (Facebook page with January 30 photo to west).

A big exterior rendering is available on the Maine Course CEO’s blog, and interior renderings are on Facebook and the main site as well.

Speaking of graphic design, the new hotel on South Street (behind Hanover Park, where Panda House used to be) has been named Six South Street and has been given a logo by Vreeland Marketing & Design.

Detail of logo

While the hotel is to be welcomed and its builders admired for their boldness and attention to urban design, the logo deserves some criticism:

The word “Street” really should be written out. While “South St.” might be part of an address, the thoroughfare that gives its name to the hotel is “South Street.” The word “Six” seems to have been spelled out to add formality or pretense, the way it is in “The Wall Street Inn” (not the plain-old “Wall St. Inn”). So the word “Street” should be as well. Only an address plaque on the building should read “6 South St.” After all, both “Six” and “South” have shorter versions that could have been used but weren’t. And even though “Hotel” is on its own line, it still makes the logo seem to refer to a “Saint Hotel” (“St. Hotel”).

When a word is abbreviated, it requires a period. Probably to prevent the letters “ST” from appearing to retreat from the righthand edge, the logo omits the period. This should have been solved some other way.