Google held a contest to encourage students to help populate its rendition of the Earth with three-dimensional building models. Dartmouth’s team was one of the winners (The Dartmouth; news release) and the models have since been placed on the globe for all to see.

The news release explains Dartmouth’s extra attention to history and suggests an eventual grand global GIS:

The Dartmouth team went a step beyond the contest’s expectations to create three separate timelines, 1800, 1900 and 2007, to illustrate how the campus has grown and changed. With input from the Office of Planning, Design & Construction, accompanying material for each building explains when it was built, what it’s used for, who the architect was, and when it was renovated.

Second Life already contains a superb downtown Hanover; someone must be thinking about putting it into Google Earth.

The Big Green Alert Blog has posted photos of the construction of Burnham Field south of Thompson Arena.

A news release explains the elaborate remaking of a 1960s Lord & Burnham greenhouse donated by the Cold Regions lab next door.

H. Kieth Wagner Partnership, Landscape Architects, has images of the South Block landscaping — paving, ramps, benches, plantings, outdoor seating, and so on.

The article on elms in Dartmouth Life has an interesting tidbit about town-gown negotiation: the College takes over the care of each elm that the Town has planted on a street that runs through the campus when the tree reaches “a certain stature.”

A large photo of Floren appeared on the cover of the Sports Weekly, and Big Green Alert Blog noted that many of the major spaces within the building have been named.

Artist Peter Irniq (Wikipedia) erected an inuksuk (Wikipedia) on McNutt’s lawn for the Hood Museum (Dartmouth Life; Hood News).

His coat of arms features an inuksuk:

(The Hood has been busy lately, also acquiring, at Sotheby’s, Pompeo Batoni’s 1756 portrait of William Legge, the second earl of Dartmouth.)

The Dartmouth has recently written up the Second College Grant Bicentennial and the Life Sciences Building.

The Historic Campus Architecture Project of the Council of Independent Colleges includes an excellent database with information on:

• society halls, such as the fabulous 1850s gothic Diagnothian and Goethean Halls at Franklin & Marshall;
• the better-known Eumenean and Philanthropic at Davidson (with Princeton’s Whig and Clio in this category if Princeton were in the CIC);
• the cold war bunker now used by Amherst as a book depository;
• Middlebury’s Snow Bowl, which combines in one place the functions that emerged at the same times at Dartmouth, such as the late-1930s base lodge (Moosilauke) and the late-1950s ski area with lodge (the Skiway);
• Sewanee’s campus, which lies within its Domain of 10,000 acres and is a bit like putting Dartmouth’s campus in the Grant; and
• Hastings College, which has a casting of Lundeen’s seated Frost, as Dartmouth does.