Archive for January, 2009

Attributions

January 10th, 2009  |  Published in all news, History, other projects, preservation, Rollins Chapel, societies

Rollins Chapel’s ca. 2004 renovation, the one that uncovered the windows, was designed by Theriault/Landmann Associates of Maine.

Architect Orliff Van Heik Chase of Shepley Rutan & Coolidge designed some work on the Delta Tau Delta house at Dartmouth according to William Collin Levere, Leading Greeks (1915). The basis for the work, perhaps an addition, appears to have been the fraternity’s 1874 house at 36 North Main (burned 1936). A 1915 view of the house hints at a “goat room” addition between the house and the barn. Another view appears in Barrett’s Hanover, N.H.. Chase was a 1908 Wesleyan graduate who designed houses for the fraternity at Wesleyan and Tufts as well.

Conservation easement in Corinth

January 10th, 2009  |  Published in all news, Hanover/Leb./Nor'ch., History, other projects, preservation

A press release notes that Dartmouth received 700 acres of forested land in Corinth, Vermont, in the 1920s. The property, about 35 miles away, has been the source of timber used in College construction projects, including the McLane Family Lodge at the Skiway. The College recently conveyed to the Upper Valley Land Trust the right to develop the property extensively; some logging will continue.

Parkside Apartment renovation to begin; other dropped

January 10th, 2009  |  Published in all news, Lamb & Rich, other projects, preservation

Dartmouth is going ahead with Haynes & Garthwaite‘s extensive renovation of Howard Major‘s Parkside Apartment for a sorority, but not the historic James Brown House, The Dartmouth reports (an earlier report said otherwise).

Hospital erecting separate surgery center

January 10th, 2009  |  Published in all news, DHMC

The Dartmouth reports that DHMC, less susceptible than Dartmouth to changes in endowments, is going ahead with construction of the two-story Outpatient Surgery Center begun in November across the loop road from the main complex (press release).