Dartmo.

UK Architects of Hanover have designed a renovation of the ground floor of the Buskey Building, a 1978 commercial block at 7 Allen Street, just past EBAs. The building’s second level is connected to the rear of the bookstore by a bridge: this is where the bookstore had its music department during the early 1990s.

Google’s Street View images, taken in the past few years, show the space as Omer & Bob’s Sport Shop, empty at the time of the photo and with a leasing sign in the window.

The client for this project is new health clinic for college employees called Dartmouth Health Connect (Dartmouth Now, The Dartmouth, Valley News; see also Forbes).

A rendering of the new interior is available at Dartmouth Now.

Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity is planning to demolish its 1896 house at 11 Webster Avenue. It will submit its application for site plan review to the Planning Board on April 20th.

11 Webster Avenue in 2005

The clapboard house, attributed to Boston architects Dwight & Chandler, was built for math professor Thomas W.D. Worthen of the Class of 1872. The house was part of an original row of six contemporary faculty dwellings by the same firm.

The society occupied the house for more than 50 years and added the large righthand wing by well-known local architects Alfred T. Granger & Associates in 1958.

The fraternity has obtained a special exception [pdf] from the zoning board to erect a new building on the site.

Sig Ep’s house is not the most exciting one on the Avenue, but still, the Town should ask the group to document the existing structure before demolishing it (Claremont documents the historic buildings it demolishes).

Better yet, the fraternity should voluntarily document its own house before tearing it down. Although not the same as preservation, it would be better than nothing.

[Update 05.01.2010: Sig Ep at Wisconsin, rebuilding its house after a fire, had to win approval for the design from the local Landmarks Commission. The house is located in a historic district.]

[Update 07.28.2010: The Dartmouth has a drawing of the front facade of the replacement. Planning Board minutes (pdf) suggest that it is being designed by Domus, Inc. of Etna.]

The Dartmouth has an article on the completion of the construction of the landscape between Berry Library and Maynard Street following a design by Richard Burck Associates (select Works in Progress). The set of grass-topped concrete terraces originally specified was replaced by a less-formal grassy bowl.

Smith & Vansant Architects of Norwich have remodeled and added a new rear façade (2000) to the Robert Strong Memorial Building (1959) of the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen, across from the Hop.

Front (north) and side (west) facades of Strong Memorial

The Athletics website has an update on the Gym renovation. One of the photographs shows the upper drill hall, which the project will return to the industrial space it really is.

One of the first things the College did when it took over the Gym from the alumni was to add a central north stair to the eastern and western runs that already led to the main entrance. Now the school is replacing that narrow central run with a single broad main stair and substituting bicycle racks for the eastern run and a ramp for the western (see plan [pdf]). One expects that the ramp nevertheless will see the greatest use, since most people arrive from the west. The chunky cornerstone, laid by President Ernest Fox Nichols at his inauguration on October 14, 1909, may be obscured by the ramp.

The Native American Studies Department anticipates a substantial addition to Sherman House (mentioned):

Front (west) and side (south) facades of the Frank Asbury Sherman House (1883)

Three views of the renovated Baker Library:

The welcome desk above follows almost exactly the form of the earlier circulation desk, but with paneling depicted rather than attached. Now patrons enter the Berry addition through the librarians’ old passage to the stacks. Note the new colors for the library’s main hall, presumably based on historic colors.

The reflection prevents this photo from showing that one of the display cases has been removed to make a window onto the passage leading back to Berry.

As another local instance of outside becoming inside, an exterior wall of the original Baker stacks now lines the passage to Berry. VSBA installed a door here.

Banwell Architects designed the addition of a humane shopfront to the Fleet Bank Building of Kenneth Parry Associates at 63 South Main Street.   From the east:

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:

The blue-lit emergency poles have proliferated on campus over the last seven or eight years, establishing an alternative (“negative”) version of the school’s shield:

This view shows some of the new graduate student houses that have gone up in a long row on North Park Street.   Designed by William Rawn Associates, they are varied in form and color and make a remarkable assemblage, especially in the context of a tree-lined, nineteenth-century street.

The recently-completed facilities adjacent Thompson Arena comprise the Boss Tennis Center with its entrance in the Gordon Pavilion, the east facades of which are depicted here:

and the Scully-Fahey Field for lacrosse, field hockey, and other sports.   Its triumphal arch is the largest gate at Dartmouth:

Dartmouth has purchased Serry’s on Lebanon Street (The Dartmouth, Valley News) and the building appears to be undergoing a major renovation:

Goody Clancy of Boston, designers of several business school buildings including Whittemore Hall, are designing the Tuck School’s new Living and Learning Complex (Vox) to occupy the site of Hinman Hall, in the River Cluster (site plan pdf).

Hinman, east facade viewed from the east:

Whittemore Hall, front (south) facade:

Some interesting details from the west side of the Green–

Even though the escutcheon (not visible in this photo) at the top of the facade has an “M” for McNutt, the center of the balcony railing retains the “TH” for “Tuck Hall”:

Timothy J. McAuliffe, who had two sons attend the college, sculpted the lions and probably other details on the entrance portal of Robinson Hall:

The entrance vestibule of Parkhurst Hall has a tiled, domed ceiling that may use the popular Guastavino tile system often found in subway stations:

A recent visit to the tower of Baker Library permitted views of the interior of the tower and, amid many other graffiti, a graffito from a member of Sphinx (general story in The Dartmouth).   The writing above the arches is illegible (“YLIJV?”), but the “M.K.K.” below presumably stands for “Mystical[al] Krewe of K____” (not Komus, surely?).

This is Tuck Drive looking north to the construction site of the two linked Tuck Mall Dorms.   The dormitories will block the short leg of the Drive that headed left to join Webster Avenue, lately called “Old Tuck Drive” (though it is, if anything, younger than the main portion of Tuck Drive, which is the portion that connects with Main Street along what is now Tuck Mall.   That portion of the Drive will be reopened).

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: