Dartmouth’s Real Estate office is now renting out Eleazar Wheelock’s Mansion House on West Wheelock Street. Until recently, the house was a flower shop not owned by the College, and Dartmouth even turned down a sale offer in the early 1990s. Does this mean Dartmouth has acquired the house?

The rear addition of brick, built for the Howe Library stacks, is a separate rental unit.

The Valley News reports that Dartmouth College is considering the sale of its nearly-53 percent share in the Hanover Water Works Company, Inc. to the Town of Hanover, which owns the rest of the company.

College towns are typically dominated by their colleges, but having a college share control of the municipal water company seems unusual, if not unique.

In the 1890s, President Tucker pushed Dartmouth to establish the Water Works and the (College) Heating Plant as companion infrastructure projects.

In August of 2010, Dartmouth and UPNE will publish a coffee-table book edited by Richard Pult depicting the posters of Winter Carnival over the years, The Dartmouth reports. Commemorating the Outing Club’s Centennial, the book will depict all of the posters since Hovey Muralist Walter Beach Humphrey ‘14 designed the first one in 1911. The design competition began in 1936.

As mentioned in the Dartmouth Parents & Grandparents Fund newsletter (Winter 2009), the book project underway at the moment is a monograph on Lamb & Rich. This is the same project mentioned back in 2004 and will take a few more years to complete.

About 85 views have been added to Views of Dartmouth. The most interesting ones are the interior views of the Heating Plant (found in Views > East Side) and old photos of the west and south sides of the Green (in Views > West Side and > General Views).

The New Hampshire Hall addition and renovation project is finished and the dorm will be open for Spring Term, The Dartmouth reports.

The Dartmouth reports that Olympia’s planned “boutique” hotel will not be built but that the project has been handed off to another developer.