Dartmouth Life and Vox note that Professor of History Emeritus Jere R. Daniell, 1955, and Jack Noon, 1968, have written Dartmouth’s Second College Grant: A History. It will be released on the 24th in the Grant.

This year is the bicentennial of the granting of the Grant.

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.]

The latest Life Sciences Building plans have been posted. The site plan (pdf) is remarkable. The elevation (pdf) of the north facade shows how much lower this somewhat tall building will be than the existing Remsen-Vail.

The Dartmouth reports on the use of the tower of the Church of Christ (the White Church) for a cell antenna. Dartmouth leases space on Fairchild Tower accross the street, as well as on the Inn, the article states. The article does not mention Baker Tower, although it must be taller than any of those buildings. Perhaps the tower’s profile and Stanley Orcutt’s weathervane are not suited to hosting antennas.

The OPDC is indeed renovating Montgomery House (Jens Larson’s house for Adelbert Ames, Jr.) and has posted photos.

The Real Estate Office has a thorough database of College-owned rental properties, most of them historic houses.

The Dartmouth provided an update on the Visual Arts Center, and the designers have an unlinked project page that states:

A new facility for the college’s Studio Art and Film and Television departments, the Visual Art Center represents the consolidation in of two related programs for the first time in the college’s history. The new center occupies a prime location and consequently must function not only as an educational space, but also as a new entrance to the both the campus and the arts precinct. An 80,000 square foot building, stretching along a length of Lebanon Street from the Facility Operations and Management department to Spaulding Auditorium in the Hopkins Center, the new building is given a sizable portal that frames the existing Hood Museum complex and functions as a door to the south entrance of the campus. Commercial programs will mix with the educational functions along the street to further enhance the town’s Master Plan.