The Fall 2004 Architecture II/III studio has put together an information-heavy website presenting their plans for West Lebanon. The planning area (visible in this aerial, with the road to the north leading to Hanover) is the subject of proposals one, two, and three. Part of the presentation includes walkthrough views. The proposals have been presented to city authorities and have generated numerous stories in the Valley News.

The College has posted recordings of Baker’s bells.

Some of the film that helped decide the Fifth-Down Game in 1940 appears in a short documentary about the game. The Review has an article about the game.

The New York Times examines the decline in Ivy football attendance that accompanied the shift from NCAA Division IA to Division IAA.

That decline is one of the reasons why Princeton recently demolished Palmer Stadium (Henry J. Hardenburgh, 1914) and replaced it with the lower-capacity Princeton Stadium (Rafael Viñoly, 1998), and why Dartmouth recently replaced some of Memorial Field’s seating with the Floren Varsity House (Centerbrook, 2006).

(The Times notes that Ivy schools’ teams “were perennial national champions from 1869 to 1939.” That should read “from 1874 to 1939,” since 1874 was the first time college football was ever played in the U.S. (Harvard v. McGill). The game that teams played for several years following 1869 was soccer. The confusion might come from Hickok Sports, which lists pre-1874 soccer games at the head of a line of football champions, or from the Rutgers University football page, which still claims that the 1869 game makes Rutgers the home of college football, although the very same webpage acknowledges that the game was played under rules “adopted from those of the London Football Association,” i.e. soccer. The first game of college football ever played between two U.S. teams was the Harvard-Yale game of 1875.)

The list of works of the firm of Lamb & Rich has been expanded to include several projects:

• House in Belle Haven Park, Greenwich, Conn.
• Cottage for Samuel Harris in North Long Branch, N.J.
• The Orange Club House, Brick Church, N.J.
• House for J.A. Minott, Orange, N.J.
• Bethel Presbyterian Church, Plainfield, N.J.
• Three houses on Sixth Avenue for H.M. Blasdell
• House on 68th Street for Anthony Mowbray
• Commercial Building at 37, 39 Greene Street
• Addition to 103-107 Prince Street for Edward Tuck and J.P. Townsend
• Washington Life Insurance Building
• Store at 24 East 22nd Street for W.H. Stern
• Store at 512-516 Broadway and 55-66 Crosby Street for William H. De Forest
• Addition to 7 Park Avenue for Charles P. Noyes
• Franklin Bank Competition Entry
• Unbuilt design for Brownell Hall, Barnard College

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:
  
  

The school is putting on a conference about the carved stone panels that, during the mid-nineteenth century, came from the Palace of King Ashurnasirpal II in Nimrud, Assyria to a number of institutions in the west, including Dartmouth.

The Medical School will add two new wings to its LeBaron Commons in Lebanon, in association with the hospital: the new Koop Complex, designed by Shepley Bulfinch Richardson & Abbott, will comprise one wing for translational research and another for the Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences (press release | fundraising announcement | building description).

A slightly revised version of the Old Division Football paper has been posted. The well-known photograph of students playing Dartmouth-rules football has been dated to 1874.

The architect of the Phi Delta Theta (now Phi Delta Alpha) house on Webster Avenue has been elusive. Although Alexander Anderson McKenzie “built into this house his own integrity,” as a plaque inside states, he did not design the building.

The American Architect and Building News stated in its “Building Intelligence” section for November 10, 1900:

The Dartmouth College Chapter of Phi Delta Theta fraternity will erect a chapter-house on Webster Ave., after plans by Charles A. Rich, 24 Nassau St., N.Y. City. The structure will be built in the Colonial style prevailing in the college buildings, the lines in general being similar to those of the Gov. Hancock House, Boston.