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Photos of some of the completed buildings in the South Block, where Ramunto’s, Hanover Hardware, and Cafe Buon Gustaio used to be, are available:

• 5 South Street
• 7 South Street

The Dartmouth and Vox have covered a number of building-related topics recently:

• Zoning for the 53 Commons north of Maynard Street
• The dedication of Kemeny Hall and the Haldeman Centers on the Kiewit site
• The Real Estate Office, which is redeveloping the block south of the Hop
• The Faheys’ gifts
• The Records Management office, which has moved out of Centerra to Etna Road in Lebanon:
  
  

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:

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

The designer of the graduate student houses now standing on the west side of North Park Street is the firm of William Rawn Associates Architects, Inc. of Boston, designer of many houses on Grasse Road for Dartmouth as well as buildings in the South Block.   (Kessel-Duff notes.)   The graduate student houses replace the pair of 1957 faculty apartment buildings by E.H. & M.K. Hunter (Edgar Hayes Hunter, Jr., 1938, and Margaret King Hunter, designers of the Shower Towers).

Finally some information on the generally underdescribed 22 units of faculty housing at Wheelock and Park: Truex, Cullins and Partners of Burlington designed the $2.6m project according to the contractor’s site (Kessell-Duff Corporation, also builders of the North Park graduate student housing and other projects).

Truex Cullins partners William H. Truex, Jr. and Rolf Kielman and Associate Sparky Millikin are alumni.

Charles Tseckares and Christopher Hill, “When Gown Builds Town: Schools That Do Good Business,” College Planning and Management (November 2003), mention the College-Town building recently built at 7 Lebanon Street to designs by CBT/Childs Bertman Tseckares Inc., the architectural firm in which the authors are partners.   Donald Maurice Kreis also writes about the building in “A Dignified “Background Building” for Hanover.”

Construction has begun on the South Block buildings, and Dartmouth’s real estate office has posted a plan of the site [pdf] and information about the individual buildings:

68, 72 South Main [pdf] is a commercial building that runs the full width of the South-Dorrance block, with its front facade divided to represent four different buildings at traditional scales.   Truex Cullins and Partners of Burlington, designers of corporate headquarters for Burton Snowboards and Ben & Jerry’s, designed the building.

UK Architects PC of Hanover designed an addition to the Gates House [pdf], formerly Big Green Cuts etc. but now moved back to 3 South Street to contain three apartments.

William Rawn Associates of Boston, designers of the Dreamworks SKG headquarters and earlier houses for Dartmouth, designed buildings containing residential and commercial spaces at 5 South Street (two apartments) [pdf], 7 South Street (six apartments) [pdf], and 9 South Street (four apartments) [pdf].

The school also will build at Five Currier Street.

The Valley News reports on the largest construction boom in recent memory, with $180 million in College and Town projects underway.

The logo of the South Block page for the school’s Real Estate Office depicts East South Street and Currier Place not as it is now (visible at the lower right of a current map) but as it would look after redevelopment.   Ramunto’s, Buon Gustaio and their neighbors currently stand on the site of the large building depicted at the left side of the proposal.   That building is considerably larger than suggested in the Downtown Hanover Vision plan but is not out of scale with others on Main Street.

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 Howe Library now is expanding and has a rendering and plans available.

Workers have begun demolishing buildings on the South Block.

Dartmouth gets the go-ahead to demolish or move about 10 buildings on the block south of Lebanon and east of Main, visible above the square mall at 80 South Main in the center of a Terraserver image, The Dartmouth reports.

The South Block redevelopment project is accellerating; the school’s Real Estate site plans more information.

Plenty of projects are in the works, all summarized in the most recent master plan (June 2002): highlights include the design work pending for a modular addition to Sudikoff and the evaluation of sites behind Fayerweather Row for a Commons House.

The Dartmouth is reporting that the College soon will relocate the Senior Fence south to the corner of Main and Wheelock. Surely they don’t mean it’s being moved, rather just extended?

The College proposes to redevelop the block south of East South Street with new office and apartment buildings, The Dartmouth reports.   No report on the school’s plans for preservation of the nineteenth century houses it owns on the block is available.

The College is renting out the houses in town it purchased recently and will have William Rawn (architect of Grasse Road faculty housing) renovate some of them as President Wright mentions in The Dartmouth.