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The Hanover Country Club would seem to be Dartmouth’s oldest athletic building, a nineteenth-century barn remodeled as an Arts & Crafts clubhouse by Homer Eaton Keyes in 1916. It is still in excellent shape and well used, although there has been talk for several years of replacing it, presumably with a clubhouse some distance from campus on Lyme Road.

(The school’s oldest intercollegiate athletic facility must be the Alumni Oval of 1893, which was remodeled as Memorial Field and is being remodeled again this summer — meaning that the site and the form have been replicated through the years but that none of the original materials survive.)

[Update 09.12.2006: clubhouse remodeling date corrected.]

Frances Cha has examined the remarkable Wheelock memorial window in Bartlett Hall in The Dartmouth:

The window depicts John the Baptist and quotes him: “Vox Clamantis In Deserto Parate Viam Domini.” In doing so, the window recalls Wheelock’s invocation of that message in his suggestion that the college motto be “Vox Clamantis in Deserto.” (Meacham photo)

[Update 04.12.2010: Parate inserted.]

McKenzie Hall, perhaps Dartmouth’s most obscure building, was built as a dairy east of the Heating Plant around 1931. It now houses the headquarters of the Department of Facilities, Operations & Management.

The temporary lack of shutters on Dartmouth Hall’s front facade gives the building an even more rudimentary, eighteenth-century appearance.

The parliamentary Faculty Room in Parkhurst Hall was largely demolished decades ago and a mezzanine inserted in its place, but a few of the roof beams remain in an unfinished attic.

An earlier view of the room. Some of the benches, with their numbered seating spaces, can be found in the corridors of Parkhurst Hall.

The possibly-1860s granite post mentioned earlier as surviving the Kemeny Hall construction has been pulled, but the fact that it remains at the construction site encourages the speculation that it will be replaced when the building is finished: