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Hidden in a story about Fahey-McLane in The Dartmouth is this information:

As part of the renovations, the booths and platforms were removed from Homeplate, increasing the dining capacity of the space, according to students who had used the renovated facility.

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Construction will continue until the estimated completion date in Fall 2011, according to a June update.

A later story has a photo of the new Homeplate. It’s hard to remember what it looked like with the risers in place.

[Update 10.19.2010: The Mirror has more details about what's moving where.]

• There is an unusual aerial view of the north end of campus in the Dartmouth Medicine magazine. It is a view from the north looking south, and it hints at the way Main Street used to cross the Green on a diagonal. The photo makes the Green’s northeast-southwest path appear to be an extension of College Street.
• There are far to many changes in planning, development, and regulation of suburban sites in the Upper Valley to keep up with on line. Here is just one example: the Valley News reported on a new development proposed for the edge of Centerra.
• Naturally Vermont has a Marble Museum (New Hampshire does not appear to have a Granite Museum…) and it is mentioned in a Rutland Herald story on the pervasive use of marble at Middlebury and other schools.
• The completed addition to Spaulding Auditorium includes extra storage for the Band’s instruments, notes the construction management firm. Interesting.
• The Valley News had a story on blazes marking the Appalachian Trail in downtown Hanover.
• The Dartmouth reports that double rooms in Fahey and McLane will be converted to triples. It seems only a couple of year ago that Fahey and McLane were built to allow the rooms in other dorms to decompress from triples to doubles.

A remote tour of recent construction via Google Street View images made around August 4, 2009, judging from the Hop’s marquee:

• The north end addition to Theta Delta Chi (view to southeast);
• The east end addition to Gile and rear addition to Hitchcock (view to north showing Gile getting a new copper roof);
• Fahey Hall (view with Butterfield);
• The redone Tuck Drive/Tuck Mall intersection (view to north; the Google Maps aerial is older and shows Fahey-McLane under construction);
• The stair addition to the west end of Bones Gate (view to south showing unobtrusive one-bay addition);
• The Zeta Psi addition (view to south showing front of building with addition under construction);
• The Chi Gamma Epsilon fire stair (view to north showing roofed but unenclosed fire escape — wonder why other houses didn’t do this if they could get away with it);
• Kemeny-Haldeman (view to east; Carson terminates Webster Avenue and is framed by Haldeman and Carpenter);
• The addition to Tabard (view to south showing rear of building; the Google driver went down this unnamed alley by the Choates before thinking better of it);
• The addition to Phi Delta Alpha (view to south showing rear of interesting, almost agricultural addition);
• The new Phi Tau (view to southeast showing side; the end view to the north shows the building’s interesting proportions);
• Berry Row (view “down” to the south);
• The McLaughlin Cluster (view of “outside” to the northeast; views “down” to southwest and “up” to northeast).
• The New Hampshire Hall additions (view to southwest showing east end addition); and
• “Whittemore Green” behind Thayer School (views of landscape including flowers and curving paths; hmmm).

A blog by Bats provides an early photo of Tuck Mall showing the new landscape work. Unusually, the photo is taken from the roof of Murdough instead of from Baker Tower.

Atkin Olshin Lawson-Bell Architects is now Atkin Olshin Schade and presently features features Collis and Fahey-McLane on its front page.

The firm’s Collis page has some new photos, including one showing the Lone Pine Tavern. The only detailed plan of the Hitchcock renovation yet available is on the site as well.

Saucier & Flynn offer a small version of what looks like a lushly-detailed landscape master plan for Dartmouth. The Tuck Mall portion is especially notable, since it shows the initial portion of the mall (what was the entire mall during the 1910s) as a broad academic field lined by paths, and only the more distant portion with a road in the center as is the case now.

The school put a sidewalk in on the north side of the mall last month, according to an article in The Dartmouth. The article did not note whether the sidewalk is the first step in implementing the master plan’s proposal for Tuck Mall.

[Update 07.24.2007: The Planning Board minutes of June 6, 2006 (pdf) suggest that the sidewalk project is an implementation of the master plan.]

Atkin Olshin Lawson-Bell is designing an extensive renovation of Hitchcock Hall, announced on the OPDC project page. The work will involve the demolition of all interior partitions (not the fireplaces), Charles Rich’s original shed-roofed (?) “resort room” in the crook of the ell, and the room’s early-1980s one-level flat-roofed expansion by Charles Hilgenhurst & Associates.

In the crook, on the original resort room footprint, will go a full-height enclosed fire stair in the same white-sided vocabulary as the interstitial elements of the firm’s Fahey and McLane Halls, across the Mall. The building will also gain a west entrance with a portico.

[01.24.2007 link to fireplace note, other details added.]

A press release on the names of the new dormitories includes two apparent firsts by Dartmouth: the first building, or part of a building, named for Samson Occom (Occom Commons in the McLaughlin Cluster) and the first building given someone’s first name or nickname: McLane Hall is still named for John Roy “Judge” McLane ’07, but it is switching to Judge Hall.

The school seems not to have announced very loudly at the end of last month that the new Tuck Mall dorms will be named (from west to east) McLane Hall and Fahey Hall.

What happened to the old McLane Hall in the River Cluster? It has been renamed Judge Hall.

The three remaining dorms in the new McLaughlin Cluster will be named Thomas, Goldstein, and Rauner Halls (see map). Rauner will be the northernmost in the eastern trio, of which Bildner and Berry were named previously; Thomas and Goldstein Halls will be the northern and central buildings, respectively, in the western trio, of which Byrne II already has been named.

The Dartmouth‘s article on LEED certification at Dartmouth mentions that the College has drilled two 1,500-foot wells to cool the Tuck Mall Dormitory — it’s interesting to note that the dorm is within 100 yards of the first wells dug at the College, the unsuccessful ones Eleazar Wheelock dug when he was trying to set up a hamlet near what is now the rear of Butterfield Hall.

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:

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).

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

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?)

Construction was planned to start on the Tuck Mall Dorm early March according to The Dartmouth.

Plenty of new views of the Tuck Mall Dorm are on line.   Tony Atkin’s firm, which designed McCulloch and the Collis renovation, is designing these two connected dormitories.

The new views indicate that the buildings will have more architectural detail than was apparent in smaller renderings.   Each building uses an interesting mini-mansard to imply that its top level is part of the roof, an effect that is necessary on what will be one of Dartmouth’s tallest dorms, at five levels.

The siting also is clearer now in a tentative site plan.   For reference, that is Butterfield/Sage at the right and Webster Avenue at the top.   Larson and Pope each planned more dorms here than this new cluster will introduce, both architects suggesting that new buildings branch off at the angle of Webster as Butterfield did during the late 1930s; see Pope’s very long row behind Webster and compare Pope’s view of this spot (showing from left two proposed dorms, then Russell Sage) with the current project (again, two new dorms, then Sage); the new project actually seems better because it holds down the edge of Tuck Mall, which did not exist in Pope’s plan.   In fact, this dorm should make the mall even stronger than before, with Butterfield fading off to the northwest weakly.   The strong building of the two looks like it might face Streeter directly.

The Dartmouth reports that construction on the Tuck Mall Dorm has begun.

This month’s Dartmouth Life has an overview of the nine largest projects underway, with images of several of them.   Two that have received little press lately but seem to get the go-ahead here are the Visual Arts Center on Lebanon Street (Machado and Silvetti) and the Tuck School dormitory/classroom complex that sounds bigger than when first announced:

The facility will consist of three connected buildings: the east and west residential buildings, and the central classroom and learning bulding.

That facility will be connected to the existing Tuck complex and designed by the firm that designed Tuck’s most recent addition of Whittemore Hall [more], Goody Clancy.