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The Neukom Institute was rumored last year to be considering a request for an addition to Sudikoff.

Ledyard Canoe Club plans to rebuild Titcomb Cabin, which burned last spring. The logs will be put in the river at the Organic Farm and rafted down to Gilman Island. This will be the closest thing to a log drive seen on this stretch of the Connecticut in many years.

David Hooke (Reaching That Peak, 1987) gave a “smoke talk” in Commons on the Outing Club’s history. The Dartmouth reports that “smoke talk” refers to the club’s journal Woodsmoke, but it might also refer to the informal lectures of that name that took place in College Hall at the turn of the century.

The Wall Street Journal has an article on Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates that, although not mentioning it, helps explain their Berry Library project.

Check out the buildings in Dartmouth’s Flickr photostream.

The Dartmouth is doing a weekly articles on Dartmouth out-of-town, starting with the riding center at Morton Farm.

Dartmouth is offering for rent the second level of the 1910s library stacks addition to Eleazar Wheelock’s house. This could make a good society hall:

Rear ell, 4 West Wheelock Street, Hanover

Dartmouth’s steam tunnel continues to stretch northward. A thumbnail sketch:

• From Heating Plant along the Green to the Berry site (mid-1990s)
• From Berry site up Berry Row to Moore (around 1998)
• From Moore, tap into historic hospital tunnel network to reach Kellogg Auditorium and adjoining chiller plant (early 2000s?)
• From Kellogg, run northward behind Medical School to future Life Sciences Building site (2007).

It is always interesting to see familiar architectural motifs reappear elsewhere: Robert Venturi reused Berry Library’s colonnade screen at the Lehigh Valley Hospital in Pennsylvania (pdf).

The OPDC continues its generous photographic documentation of the Bradley/Gerry demolition: one view shows Kemeny with Berry in the background, as it was meant to be seen, although just a little bit of Bradley is still standing.

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.

The school has selected the names for one of two dormitory trios being built in the McLaughlin Cluster.   The three connected buildings will be called Berry Hall, Bildner Hall, and Byrne Hall II according to a press release.

Three families gave about $6 million each for the buildings: John and Shirley Berry, Charles Berry, and Roberta and George Berry ’66 funded a dormitory to be named for John W. Berry Sr. ’44; Joan and Allen Bildner ’47, Tu ’48 funded Bildner Hall; Dorothy and John “Jack” Byrne Jr. and their sons John Byrne III ’81, Mark Byrne ’85, Tu ’86, and Patrick Byrne ’85 funded Byrne Hall II.

The Review has posted its latest issue, which includes a list of projects underway, some stats for the north campus, and a thoughtful article on the new construction by Joseph Rago, who quotes Dean Redman on the planning of the new dorms north of Maynard: “We learned from our mistakes in East Wheelock[.]”

Remember, you heard about the “mini-mansard” here first!   (Actually, mini-mansard is probably not the right word, since the roof does not slope at the gable ends: perhaps it is a cryptogambrel?)

The Demolition of the Shower Towers and the construction of dorms on Tuck Mall and Maynard are new priorities, according to an article in The Dartmouth.

Baker-Berry project continues: Kiewit’s demolition is underway as noted in the College’s Berry news updates and photos by Sean Dunten of Computing Services.

The big project is the Berry Library by Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates and Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson & Abbott (live construction) going in behind Baker, the school announced.