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GAMMA DELTA CHI HOUSE c.1936 (PHI KAPPA SIGMA HOUSE [II])
A 1935 merger produced the local Gamma Delta Chi Fraternity (R.N. Hill, 234); one component, the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity, owned an old house on North Main Street. The new organization replaced that building with the current one in the mid-1930s. A November 1935 drawing by local architects Wells, Hudson & Granger for a building essentially like the current house exists in the College Archives (Box DC Hist Iconong 456 proposed buildings never built). The house has a large underground basketball court beneath porch, reputedly designed as a swimming pool but first used as a dance hall for safety code reasons.

GARAGE (a) c.1930 (c.2000)
The long row of auto garages behind Morton and Zimmerman Halls will make way for the fourth dormitory in the New Dorms.

GARAGES (b)19XX (c.1997)
FO&M placed its pair of garages facing Parker House in the Ravine south of Maynard Street, and they made way for the construction of Moore Hall c.1995.

GARIPAY FIELD 1XXX (ATHLETIC FIELD [V])
The sports fields north of Hanover alongside the Golf Course and south of the old Pat & Tony's is home to the Corey Ford Rugby Clubhouse. The field occupies the former Garipay Farm.

GATE* (north) by 1775 (17XX)
Wheelock built a gate near the northeast corner of the Green in the vicinity of John Payne, who knocked it and others over in his position as the highway surveyor (Chase, 265) Wheelock found the broken gate on his doorstep (Chase, 544). Payne's Tavern stood just north of today's Wheeler Hall; this gate is presumably the one built "not far from where Senator Patterson now [1891] lives" (Chase, 263), the present east entrance of Baker Library .

GATE* (south) 1777 (17XX)
"May 12, 1777. Mr. Stephen Chase, by order of the Trustees, with consent of the Town and by my direction, set up a light and convenient gate across the road at the south end of the lane that crosses Mink brook from the College" (Eleazar Wheelock, in Chase, 537). Someone broke the gate within two days (Chase, 537). This gate stood south of town near the bottom of South College (Chase, 263). Chase describes Eleazar Wheelock as building at least three gates over the highways, thus allowing him to avoid fencing the entire length of the College property along the roads in order to keep livestock from eating his crops. The town generally disapproved of the gates (Chase, 263); they became a recurring object of controversy and the local court in fact declared them illegal (Richardson 1932, 129).

GATE 19XX
The gate closes the south end of Tuck Drive south of the Boathouse, really the only College gate today. A pair of similar gate posts once framed the other entrance to Tuck Drive, higher on the hill, where the Drive first enters Wheelock's Vale.

DR. LABAN GATES HOUSE 1785
Dr. Gates had the house built on East Wheelock Street where Wilson Hall stands today (J.K. Lord 1928, 38). The house remained in the family until 1845, after which students used it as a rooming house until the College moved it in 1884 to its present location at 68 South Main Street, on the southeast corner of Main and South Streets (Barrett, Town of Hanover Calendar [date unknown]). As it originally stood, the house was probably smaller and had a low hipped roof and two chimneys like the Choate House. The house now has a peaked roof and Greek Revival detailing still visible. Notable is "large pediment gable facing the street with its three windows and decorative fan, the broad applied frieze band of horizontal trim and the large corner pilasters" (Barrett, Town of Hanover Calendar [date unknown]). The building has held several businesses in its expanded ground floor, including Big Green Cuts and Mei Mei's Chinese take-out in 1995.

GERRY HALL 1961
Prominent local architects and sometime Dartmouth instructors E.H. and M.K. Hunter designed the classroom/office/laboratory building of the Psychology department to stand behind the site of the Colby House (demolished?) in connection with Bradley Hall north of Elm Street. Students call the pair "the Shower Towers" because of their green and blue tile pattern,. Edwin Peabody Gerry, a medical figure in Boston, gave the money for the building, which the College dedicated on May 18-19, 1962. The dedication of Filene Auditorium, that is the 200-seat auditorium connecting Bradley Mathematics building to Gerry and funded by the Lincoln and Teresa Filene Foundation, occurred on the same day (Widmayer 1991, 166, 171). The College renovated the building in 1980.

GILE HALL 1928
Jens Frederick Larson designed this dormitory in the Gold Coast cluster named for prominent trustee John M. Gile. The building cost $208,000 to build (Richardson 1932, 776) and in the context of the Depression was the most expensive Dartmouth dormitory to occupy (ORL), hence the name of the group. The building connects by a breezeway to Streeter. By 1961 the building held 109 in eight singles, 49 doubles and a triple (Office of the Bursar), while in 1990 it held 113 in 41 singles, 21 doubles and ten triples (ORL). Gile was one of ten Navy V-12 dormitories (operated as the ship "U.S.S. Gile") during W.W.II (Navy 1944). The building predates Lord and Streeter by a year. The Gold Coast was the first cluster to receive furniture made from lumber harvested from the Second College Grant (Margolis).

DR. J.F. GILE HOUSE 1922
Larson & Wells designed the house at 7 Choate Road, third in from Main St.; Gile had it built at the approximate cost 35 cents per cubic foot (American Architect [3 June 1925]).

GILMAN ISLAND ("NIGGER ISLAND") ("NICKER ISLAND")
Gilman Island is the closest Connecticut River island to Hanover. The island lies along the east shore of the river south of Ledyard Bridge. The Ledyard Canoe Club built Titcomb Cabin on the island in 1952 after the new Wilder Dam (1947) raised this portion of the river by 15 feet and inundated club cabins on three other islands (Falcon).
Before the raising of the river, the island was correspondingly larger and may have been connected to the New Hampshire shore. Perhaps reflecting the marginality of the land, the island was known as "Nigger Island" and later "Nicker Island" (Falcon). The former name was still current in the 1940s, as the name of the Thayer School's model railroad of that time demonstrates: it was called "The Nigger Island and Pompanoosuc Railroad" (Dartmouth Alumni Magazine 32, no. 8 [May 1940], 40).

GILMAN LIFE SCIENCES LABORATORY 1964
The laboratory, classroom and office building of the Biology Department, is connected to Remsen and Dana. The Murdough Greenhouse occupies the fifth floor of the building and contains a dedication plaque removed from Clement Greenhouse (Skog).

GITSIS BLOCK c.1928-30 (DARTMOUTH BOOKSTORE)
The three-story block stands at the northwest corner of South Main and Allen Streets and only one shop occupies its storefront: the Dartmouth Bookstore. The Bookstore, which Edward Payson Storrs bought from graduating senior Nelson McClary in 1884, is still run by Storrs' descendants. The store was originally located below Cobb's Store in the old Graves Store, a building that made way for the northern Davison Block in 1903. The bookstore moved into the northern part of the building when it was completed, in the space the Dirt Cowboy Cafe would occupy by the 1990s. The store moved into the Gitsis block in 1963 and expanded its music department into the upper floor of the building to the rear across the alley c. 1993 (Stebbins 1984, 18-20). The W.H. Trumbull Co. built the building (The Pictorial 1931). The building occupies the site of a pre-1884 two-story house whose ell contained the Fire Department and Police station by 1912, according to Sanborn maps.

GRADUATE CENTER ca. 2001-2003
As part of the 2000 Student Life Initiative, the Trustees propose a Graduate Student Center (Board of Trustees 2001). The center may stand on the old Hospital property north of Maynard Street.

GRASS PLOT* 1873 (1960s or 1970s)
The small traffic island in the middle of Wheelock Street, stretching along the eastern three-quarters of the Green, seems to have remained through at least 1961. It may have been simply a tree-lined plot as stood in the center of a number of Hanover streets before Dutch Elm disease and the automobile. Or it may be a remnant of the old southern line of the Green: the Green was once more regular in shape, with its bottom edge parallel to the top, but the Town removed part of the south fence and angled Wheelock Street across the bottom edge of the Green to eliminate the jog in front of the Gates House/Wilson Hall corner (see the Green). The plot was probably removed to accommodate the turn lane and snow removal.

-GRASSE ROAD
Christopher Grasse, who farmed the area and whose wife was a teacher and son a letter-carrier, is the namesake for the road. It is really a part of Reservoir Road (Morrison, 63).

-GRASSE ROAD DEVELOPMENT 1984
The College owns and its Real Estate department develops this thirty-nine acre project outside of Hanover. William Rawn Associates of Boston designed twenty single-family homes that General Contractor G.R. Porter & Sons built, all in a version of the New England vernacular ("Affordable Housing: Projects"). Three different models intended to be affordable for young faculty range from a 1,300 square foot house with two bedrooms and a study to a 1,900 square-foot house with three bedrooms, a study and family room. The houses are oriented close to the street (Pearson).

GRASSY KNOLL
A perhaps unintended ironic reference to the supposed location of a second gunman at the Kennedy assassination, Hanover's Grassy Knoll comprises the north-facing slope east of the Medical School overlooking the parking lot. A Springfest concert held there in 1995 described the location in these terms.

GRAVES STORE* 1793 (1903) (COBB'S STORE) (C&G HALL [I]) (EMERSON BLOCK)
The two-story shop that Rufus Graves '91 built stood on Main Street next door to what is now the C&G House. The building appears in photographs painted white with a pediment supported by five large Doric columns. The lot on which the building stood was part of one originally comprised of two acres, with sixteen rods on Main Street and twenty to the west. The College granted the lot to Captain Aaron Storrs in 1771 and he built his house and Tavern on the corner, see the Delta Kappa Epsilon House (V). Storrs transferred the land and house after 1787, probably in settlement of a debt, to Samuel Parkman of Boston, who conveyed it in 1793 to Graves (J.K. Lord 1928, 31). Graves was also the designer and a financier of the first White River Falls Bridge and had a tannery on the site of today's Alpha Delta House. Graves built the store on the site of what is now the Davison Block; he gave it a large hall on the second floor and entered into competition with Lang (J.K. Lord 1928, 25). Graves sold the property to Dr. Samuel Alden in 1799 (J.K. Lord 1928, 32), who used the house as a drug store, also extending it to the south and with the hipped roof changed to pitched one. Alden presumably divide the lot and sold the building separately from his house; around 1850 Emerson owned the building. C&G rented four rooms here in around 1887, when the building was known as Cobb's Store and Walter D. Cobb ran it (Cushman). The Dartmouth Bookstore occupied the lower half of the building from 1884-1903. The builders of the present Davison Block tore the building down in 1903, and the columns went to frame the entry of the Phi Gamma Delta House (II), which was demolished in the 1920s.

GREAT LAWN OF BAKER LIBRARY 1927 (BAKER LAWN) (THE QUADRANGLE [d])
The lawn south of Baker Library facing the Green is known as the Great Lawn or Baker Lawn. The College originally granted the land that includes the lawn to Professor Ripley; in 1784 the College asked to buy it back from him to lengthen the Green and make Dartmouth Hall appear centered on the east side (Chase, 575). This plan came to nothing. The College placed the Butterfield Museum at the center of what was to be a block-sized quadrangle here in 1895, though only the southern part of the plant was realized. This scheme was according to a general plan by Charles Eliot of the Olmstead Brothers firm and, as drawn up by Lamb & Rich, called for a quadrangle open at the south and flanked by new buildings and the existing College Church. The College purchased the pair of houses on Wentworth Street that stood in the way of the plan but was not able to complete the scheme (Richardson, 2:682). Finally the houses moved in 1927, but by then the plan had changed: the College demolished Butterfield in 1928 to give a view of Baker Library and the building's footprint forms part of the current lawn. The College leveled a slight shallowness in part of the lawn in 1953 so Eisenhower would not have to "face a depression" (McCarter). In 1994 the College removed the "Eisenhower Forest," a small stand of scrawny trees to the south of the eastern wing of the library apocryphally attributed to 1953 Secret Service demands. Commencement exercises took place here from 1953 to 1993 outside of a few rain days.

THE GREEN 1770 (CAMPUS) (COLLEGE COMMON) (COLLEGE SQUARE) (ATHLETIC FIELD [I])
When the village plan was laid out "in 1771 probably by Jonathan Freeman, the central feature was a square comprising seven and a half acres, 'opened for a Green' by authority of the Trustees of the College, but without any special dedication to the public" (J.K. Lord 1928, 22). The College first cleared the Green by felling the pines in a circular area in 1770, with some of the trees being an extraordinary 270 feet high (Chase, 225). Wheelock gave some sermons in the great cathedral created by the clearing among the gigantic trees, which were so tall that little daylight could be seen on the forest floor until the sun was high in the sky each day. Clearing continued in 1771 and laborers finally burned and removed the trees in 1772 (Chase, 230), though it would be sixty years before all of the stumps had disappeared; for a time each class had to remove one stump. Rope Ferry Road in fact took the name of Stump Lane as stumps from here and elsewhere lined it for decades. Professor Smith in his nearsightedness is said to have raised an alarm over a "bear & three cubs" he saw on the Green, which turned out to be a cluster of stumps (Chase, 230). Unlike many greens, such as nearby Lebanon's or even Tuck Mall, Dartmouth's Green has not been replanted with trees and still gives the effect of being hewn from the wilderness.

The surface of the Green was very rough and uneven and sloped rapidly downward to the swamp at the southeast, the stumps of the lofty pines that originally covered it remaining many long years in position, and being destitute of a fence it served as a grazing place for the village cows. In 1784 a plan of the College Trustees to enlarge it by recovering some of the land which had been given to Professor Ripley (to the north) came to nothing, as also did a determination to fence it, which failed no doubt from lack of funds. In 1827 the Trustees seriously contemplated putting it to other uses, and raised a committee to 'enquire into the expediency of taking up at the present time any part of the College Green for the accommodation of the College.' But... the next year it was voted 'that the executive authority procure it to be plowed, leveled, seeded and handsomely fenced, with walks and trees, if it could be done without expense to the College.' This vote, too, was futile. Finally, in 1836... the plan was carried out"     (J.K. Lord 1928, 23)

The lots surrounding the Green "were made to abut directly up on the 'College Green,' as it was uniformly called in ancient conveyances and records, and the houses were often built out to the line, of which an example remained until 1909 in the house of Mrs. Susan A. Brown, that was removed to make way for the Parkhurst Administration Building" (J.K. Lord 1928, 22). Of course by then there was a road between the house and the Green. Main street was laid out by 1775 along the north-south route through town but it ran diagonally across the Green from its southwest to northeast corners. Only when a fence went up did the highway have to follow Faculty Avenue/North Main and then turn onto Church/Wentworth Street (Childs 1961, 267). "There was among the villagers a most bitter and persistent opposition to the improvement, which [opposition] was cherished in one form or another for nearly half a century" (J.K. Lord 1928, 23). Even today, the slow progress of ambulances from the north to the south by the long way around the Green highlights this rerouting. The College removed the fence in 1893 (Richardson, 2:681) once it no longer needed to keep out animals.

The College intended to expand the Green to the north on the land originally granted by the College to Professor Ripley, who was asked in 1784 to sell it (if it could be added to the Green, Dartmouth Hall would become centered on the east side) but this did not happen (Chase, 575). The southern border of the Green was once 30 feet farther south at the southeast corner than it is today, but the Town took the land in order to straighten Wheelock Street as it passes today's Wilson Hall in 1873 (Childs 1961, 267). Students burned the new fence, which they regarded as an unjust seizure by the town, but selectmen threatened to reopen the road across the Green, which had never legally discontinued. Thus the south line of the Green is no longer square with the other sides.

Though the Trustees voted on 17 March 1906 to call the space the "College Green" (Tucker, 309), it also went by the names of College Square (Widmayer 1961, 236) (Chase, 575), the Common, and later by the turn of the 20th century the Campus . That word first appeared in the sense of a college public space probably at Princeton in the late 18th Century (Turner, 4), though it did not take on its current meaning until later. In the "Campus Oration" by William Edward Cushman from the 1883 Class Day, held on the Green, he described the space:

This Campus of nearly five acres, is one of the institutions of which we of Dartmouth can truly boast. We place it first in the list of College campi. We shall not be disputed, if we assert that by promoting [character and health], the Campus performs as important a function as any other single institution in the College course.     (Exercises, 21)

Franklin McDuffee of the class of 1921 wrote "Dartmouth Undying," and the word "Campus" in that song ("the long cool shadows floating on the campus") likely refers to the Green--the phrase "put her on the Campus just to coach the Freshman Team" from "Son of a Gun" certainly does. The Carnival Ice Sculpture is still called the "Center-of-Campus Statue." Many still called the Green the "campus" in the 1950s and Childs did so in 1961 (Childs 1961, 264). Even a postcard still for sale at the bookstore in the 1990s uses "campus," though it is dated enough to describe bonfires as being before all home games. Chase and Lord in 1928 call the space the "College Green" (Chase, 265) and it also has that name on a 1912 postcard.

A number of minor changes have taken place in the vegetation and furnishing of the Green. The College began to place planks on the Green during mud season in 1884 (Richardson, 649), though later drainage improvements allowed the practice to stop. Many of the trees planted around the Green were elms, but since the arrival of Dutch Elm Disease the College has replaced many, notably on the south side, by smaller species. In 1938 many of the elms were blown down in a windstorm (R.N. Hill, 253). At some time the flag poles papered on the west side, and the College added the granite post to hold notice of the deceased in 1994. From 1854 to 1869 a flagpole 120 feet high stood in the center of the Green. Two shipbuilder brothers from Maine raised it for the Republican cause, and it held various trousers through the years (J.K. Lord 1913, 307). The granite watering trough that stood at the southwest corner of the Green is the "terrible trough" of freshman-frightening literature, though it moved at some time and now stands in front of Webster Cottage. A tree called the Bulletin Elm stood at northeast corner of the space, and several trees on the other corners also held bulletin boards.

The paths have not always been where they are today. The northern cross-path was added after Massachusetts Hall was built, to connect it to the north door of Dartmouth. The diagonal path that start at the southwest corner once began farther east, probably because it still followed the line of the old Main Street across the Green and because there were no traffic lights or sidewalks telling one where to cross Wheelock Street. The paths probably fell into their current pattern after 1931, though changes have been occurring on the southeast corner in the last 30 years since the Hop and its H.B.s were built in a diagonal relation to Thayer. Director Ken Burns's favorite baseball photo depicts a game on the Green, and he compares the field to L'Enfant's Baroque plan for Washington (DAM November 1994, 26).

The Green is the collective living room, crossroads, multipurpose space, center, heart, and focus of celebrations, demonstrations, and fairs, used any time when collective joy or frustration is to be expressed. The Green is also the only 18th-century creation remaining at the center of campus, since the College buildings are all post-Wheelock. The Green has seen many sights: the first two buildings of the College, Old College and Commons, were built on the southeast corner along with a well and a blacksmith's shop to the north, all by about 1789. Early Commencements and their accompanying fairs took place here, with the Green packed by hawkers, gamblers and musicians. After Napoleon's 1814 defeat, students marched to the Green and spoke from atop a fieldpiece, which was fired ("Napoleon Defeated, Celebration in Hanover"). In the 1869 centennial celebration a large tent from Yale stood on the southern half of the Green and temporary dining hall running north-south stood on the northern part (J.K. Lord 1913, 365). Other events include the bonfire and Dartmouth Night, begun in Dartmouth Hall in 1895; Winter Carnival sculptures; military training of Revolutionary militia, 1812 militia, Civil War cadets, Spanish-American War volunteers, W.W.I and W.W.II units; parades; Class Day Exercises; protests, whether Sixties antiwar demonstrations, the shantytown and Rally Against Hate, hunger strikes, or anti-alcohol policy; sculptural "events" including hundreds of white papier-mache dogs. In 1999 the Green's furnishings and surrounding buildings were illuminated in various colored lights by relax, a group of Swiss artists, giving a theme-park air ("Art Lite").

In 1824 the town allowed 'the playing at ball or any game in which ball is used on the public common in front of Dartmouth College, set apart by the Trustees thereof among the purposes for a playground for their students' (J.K. Lord 1928, 23). Sports contests have always been a major use of the Green, especially when the late 19th-century cult of sport saw the space primarily as a large athletic field. Cricket matches, whether the 18th-century one that appears in North America's earliest depiction of cricket or current ones played by international students from the former British Colonies, take place on the Green. "Old Division" no-rules football/soccer games between class years or literary societies or New-Hampshire and the world took place into the 19th century; Dartmouth's first intercollegiate meets in baseball in 1866, track in 1875, and football in 1881 took place on the Green (R.N. Hill); the 1884 Tennis Association played its first matches on courts laid out on the Green (Richardson 1932, 642); cane rushes involving thousands; tugs-of-war ; wet-downs and gantlet-runnings; later woodsman's competitions; fraternity and intramural sports and chariot races; moodisc games; activity fairs; Green Key concerts; and Pow-Wow in 1995 also took place on the Green. Recently the Green has seen the construction of the steam tunnel along most of its eastern edge and now sports the Roaring Maw near its northeast corner.

GRIST MILL* 177X (18XX) The College mill stood alongside Mink Brook by Sand Hill along with the Sawmill (Chase, 562) and the House for Six Scholars. Operators abandoned the mill, though its flume was still seen on the south side of brook in 1891 (Chase, 238).

GUN HOUSE by 1814 (18XX)
The gun house was a storage build for the fieldpiece of the town's artillery company. One reference to the building comes in a description of the celebrations after Napoleon's defeat in 1814 and does not give the location. "When the cannon was brought from the gun-house an officer of the artillery gave orders to have the rope drawn in a circle round the piece and the spectators to be kept beyond it." The artillery company brought the gun to the Green, and fired it during the celebration. Placing the gun at the head of a procession, the company and spectators "marched around the plan to the gun house where one of the seniors of the college mounted the cannon and extemporaneously addressed the audience in a handsome and energetic manner upon the great events which had just been announced" ("Napoleon Defeated, Celebration in Hanover").

GUYER BLOCK* by 1884 (c.1937) (ALPHA KAPPA KAPPA HALL [I])
The small commercial block stood just below Hanover Inn and was numbered 10-14 in 1931; it had held the Alpha Kappa Kappa Hall in 1905. The 1937 Lang Building replaced the block.

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CHARLES HALL HOUSE* by 1893 (by 1912)
The house stood at 7 East Wheelock Street, between the Sphinx and the Alpha Delta House, and it appears on 1893 and 1896 Sanborn maps. Mr. Charles Hall appears elsewhere in a town directory of 1898. The house was demolished at some time between 1904 and 1912 according to Sanborn maps of those years; the building stood on or near the site of a building that had been moved to 42 Lebanon Street in 1868.

DICK HALL'S HOUSE 1927 (INFIRMARY/PEST HOUSE [IV]) (DICK'S HOUSE)
The College infirmary is known as Dick's House and was a gift of the parents of Richard Drew Hall, Mr. and Mrs. E.K. Hall. Richard Hall had died at Dartmouth and is not the Richard Nelville Hall who died in France and whose monument stands west of Baker's Reserve Corridor. Jens Fredrick Larson designed the building, which cost $226,000 (Richardson 1932, 774). Originally holding 40 beds, Dick's House connects to the M.H.M.H. to the south via A&B Wards. The doorstep, inscribed "1784," came from the original Dartmouth Hall; the door knocker, a Napoleon eagle cast in 1805, and came from a lamp post in the Place de L'Etoile in Paris; Mrs. Hall selected personally the furnishings and wallpaper selected over the years; the lounge holds a small flag given by Admiral Byrd that flew at the South Pole; and the library features books given by friends of Hall and his parents, including one inscribed by Calvin Coolidge (Chase, 32). The College remodeled the building in 1977 and 1993 when the reception entrance moved south to a new connector with A&B Wards/5 Rope Ferry Road.

HALLGARTEN HALL 1873-1874 (1925 [front]) (CONANT HALL) (INFIRMARY [II]) (PEST HOUSE [III])
The N.H. College of Agricultural and the Mechanic Arts built the dormitory and eating club at 8 East Wheelock Street and called it Conant Hall after the Hon. John Conant, of Jaffrey N.H. The hall held 125 students of all departments, including the Classical course (Richardson 1932, 540). When N.H. College moved to Durham in 1892, Dartmouth purchased Conant along with the Experimental Farm for $15,000 (Richardson 1932, 629) and renamed the building for Mr. Julius Hallgarten of New York, a benefactor of the College. The building continued as a college dorm with a student dining club on the first floor (Emerson 1900) though it eventually became highly unpopular. The hall became a barracks in 1918 (R.N. Hill, 241). After the nearby Allen Hall was demolished, the College possibly used the building as an infirmary approximately from 1919-1927. The College demolished most of the building in 1925 (Richardson 1932) after Topliff had stood in front of it for six years, leaving only the rear two-story ex-kitchen annex. This remnant, which continued as a dormitory nicknamed "Hellgate" and was one of ten Navy V-12 dormitories during W.W.II (Navy 1944), now holds the Bregman Electronic Music Studio after its 1989 remodeling (Facilities).

HANOVER COUNTRY CLUB 1899 (GOLF COURSE) (HILTON FIELD)
Fourteen men funded the construction of the clubhouse and its original nine-hole course. The College bought the works in 1914, and added additional facilities including an enlargement to the clubhouse in 1916-17. An additional nine holes made up an 18-hole course in 1920 (Widmayer 1977, 50). Funds from Mr. Henry H. Hilton, 1890 of Chicago funded all of these improvements, along with the 1921 iron bridge over the brook in the Vale of Tempe (J.K. Lord 1928, 70). Chubbers laid out the first slalom ski course in the country on Golf Course Hill in 1923 (R.N. Hill, 281). Coach Tommy Keane designed the nine additional holes that the College later added (R.N. Hill, 286).

HANOVER HARDWARE (II) by 1922
The house at 3 East South Street appeared at some time between 1912 and 1922 (Sanborn maps), and C.H. Ellis and L.G. Brilliant occupied the building in 1931. The building is the current home of Hanover Hardware after the shop moved from the Ledyard Bank Building on Main Street.

HANOVER HIGH SCHOOL 1936
Eastward along Lebanon Street from the Richmond Middle School is the brick Hanover High School, designed by Wells, Hudson and Granger as Federal Public Works Project 3288 according to a sign visible in a contemporary postcard. The three-story flat-roofed L-shaped building includes an arm extending to the rear at its west end; a series of additions connects the this end of the building to the nearby middle school. A major addition of 1957 provided library and classroom space. (Barrett, "Our Schools," Town of Hanover calendar [1998]).

HANOVER INN* (b) (I) 1887 (1966) THE WHEELOCK (HOTEL) (INN [III])
The Trustees erected the third hotel on the site to replace the old hotel known as "The Dartmouth" or the Dartmouth Hotel (a), which burned in 1887. The College bought the land after the fire and built the Wheelock Hotel to lease to outside parties (Emerson 1900). Lambert Packard of St. Johnsbury, Vt. designed the generally Queen-Anne building, with its two-story porch on the north side and corner tower with conical roof. A large Romanesque arch marked the Main Street entrance. The building seems to have begun life with an awkward plan and was "wretchedly constructed" for a total cost of $42,000 (Richardson 1932, 619). In 1902 Charles Rich designed a complete reconstruction of the Wheelock to give it a more Colonial appearance, adding stepped gables and a one-story white-columned porch and shortening the tower. Inn patrons had to stay in College Hall during the construction. The College then renamed the Wheelock the Hanover Inn at this time at President Tucker's suggestion, and ran the hotel itself (Richardson 1932, 678). A gift of $50,000 from Randolph McNutt, 1871 enabled the College to add fifty rooms to the east side of the Inn in 1923 where the clapboard Inn Annex had stood (R.N. Hill, 330); that section remains though the 1887 Inn itself does not. The College refurbished the building in 1937 (Widmayer 1977, 218) and remodeled it in 1948 and 1960, when the College built the Tavern (R.N. Hill). The College altered the building again in 1962 before demolishing it for the current Inn: the building was apparently a firetrap. See "Inn" for the previous two inns.

HANOVER INN (b) (II) 1966 (INN V)
The fourth inn building on this site follows the style of the 1923 addition to the Inn that preceded it. A parking garage exists below the eastern wing. The College remodeled the building in 1975 (Facilities) and extended the porch in 1995. The Inn has 98 rooms and can accommodate around 200 guests.

HASKELL HOUSE* c.1780 (1895) (POOLE STORE)
Eleazar Wheelock, Jr. had his house built just north of the future site of Rollins Chapel on College Street. The building stood on the northwest corner of a parcel the elder Wheelock gave his son, measuring 12 rods on the road and 14 deep. When the elder Eleazar died the parcel to the east, including the hill and the flat beyond it, also came to Eleazar the younger. Wheelock later built another house (Princeton House) up the hill; he conveyed the house to Daniel Gould in 1783, and General James Poole bought it in 1806 and converted it into a store. The store was a center of business in the Town under the General and then upon his death in 1828 under his former clerk, Daniel B. Johonnot, until 1832. Poole lived across the street in the Woodward House. Later the house became a residence and students rented rooms, a situation that remained until 1895 when the College bought the house and demolished it (The Dartmouth 16: 327, 14 June 1894). Lord reports that the College tore the building down to make room for Rollins (J.K. Lord 1928, 57) See also Commons Hall (II).

HATTER'S SHOP by 1774 (around 1871)
A hatter's shop occupied the site where the Psi Upsilon House now stands; Asa Huntington kept shop here as early as 1774 (J.K. Lord 1928, 65). No record of Huntington appears after 1777 (J.K. Lord 1928, 28); the barber Samuel McClure next occupied the house before moving to Main Street; Judge Elias Weld followed him and Ebenezer Lee followed him, by 1855. Workers building the Balch House and its barn, later called the Store House, demolished the hatter's shop for the latter building in 1871.

HEATING PLANT 1898-1899 (CENTRAL HEATING PLANT) (POWER HOUSE)
The brick boiler house originally measured 110 feet long by 50 feet deep and stood 19 feet high, or one story. The dynamo room was at the east end, and the building had coal pockets and six boilers (Emerson 1900). Charles Rich of Lamb & Rich designed the plant, which cost $77,000 to build and stands on the site of the College Gas Works. The 1904 lighting plant the College added to the building cost of $34,000 (Richardson 1932, 678). New sections followed suit: one at the east between 1912 and 1922 (Sanborn maps) and one in 1940, when a remodeling also took place (R.N. Hill, 307). Presumably at this time Jens Larson designed the second story that gave the building its current appearance. Oil replaced coal as the plant's fuel in the late 1920s (Richardson 1932, 776). The original smokestack had Romanesque details to match the building, including a ring of small arches and dentils; the College replaced it with the current stack in 1958 (Widmayer 1991, 136).

HINMAN HALL 1958-1962 (NORTH WIGWAM)
The five-story Modernist dormitory forms part of the River Cluster and stands on or near the site of the Wigwam Circle, post-war housing for married students that appears on maps of 1950. The building held 116 in 12 single and 52 doubles when it was new (Office of the Bursar), and it held 101 in 27 singles and 37 doubles in 1990. Since the 1985 remodeling (Facilities) the hall has a full kitchen and television lounge (ORL). Funding for construction came from the U.S. Housing and Home Finance Administration (Widmayer 1991, 136)

HITCHCOCK HALL 1913
This is the first of six dormitories the College built on the Hitchcock Estate, land that Emily Howe Hitchcock left the College in 1912. Charles Rich designed the hall. The hall became a barracks in 1918 (R.N. Hill, 241). The hall still includes some half-baths and fireplaces (ORL). It held 93 in 3 singles and 45 doubles in 1961 (Office of the Bursar), and it held 118 in 22 singles, 6 doubles and 28 triples in 1990 (ORL). The 1985 remodeling (Facilities) saw an extension added in the crook of the ell (ORL).

HITCHCOCK HOUSE* 1864 (1920) (THE HITCHCOCK PLACE)
The Rev. Henry Fairbanks, a professor, had the Victorian house built approximately on the site of today's Russell Sage Hall, with its driveway to North Main Street marking the first road that Tuck Mall would adopt fifty years later. Hiram Hitchcock and his widow Emily Howe Hitchcock long occupied the building, and Mrs. Hitchcock left it and its land to the College. The College demolished the building in 1920 and built Russell Sage in its place (J.K. Lord 1928, 49).

MARY HITCHCOCK MEMORIAL HOSPITAL* 1890-1893 (1995) (HOSPITAL [II])
Not originally a College building, Mr. Hiram Hitchcock, esq. built the hospital as a memorial to his first wife, Mary Maynard Hitchcock, who had died in 1887 (Emerson 1900). The seven-acre site previously included the barns and houses of Edward Clifford and E. K. Smith (J.K. Lord 1928, 52). Maynard Street is contemporary with the hospital to which it provides access, and it connects North Main and College Streets.

Workers laid the foundations for the building in 1889. Four distinct buildings comprised the complex: a central administration block with a two-story ell and an attic; a pair of one-story pavilions connected by 35-foot long corridors, and a surgical building for the medical school that adjoined the north or back end of the eastern pavilion (Cowles). The central building had a hipped roof with dormers; the other roofs were domed. The administration building measured approximately 42 by 58 feet. After passing through a port-cochere and veranda one entered the rotunda of 16 feet across which bore the fireplace now near the elevator shaft of the D.H.M.C.

Pompeian brick of a mottled yellow-gray was the main material of the hospital and gave it its character: "The general architectural style is based upon early Italian Renaissance" wrote the American Architect and Building News. Ornamentation was of a lighter terra-cotta, and the complex had light-red Spanish tile roofs. A "cohesive system" of thin vitreous tiles built up in layers into a shallow dome forms the hospital ceilings. Each dome flattens as it rises to become the floor of the room above, an adaptation of a Catalan technique "introduced to America by Mr. Guastavino." "This is the first [building], and the first hospital in America, which has been planned especially for the use of this method throughout." Guastavino tiles also helped construct the New York Subway among many other late-19th-century projects. Fireproof construction was a goal and builders used no iron or woodwork, except for some finishing and flooring. The floors of the main halls were of marble mosaic, with a large M.H.M.H. monogram in the center of the Rotunda.

Architects Rand and Taylor of Boston were instructed to "spare no reasonable expense" and the three buildings cost about $90,000, with the surgical annex costing $20,000, while a conventional "slow-burning" building would have cost about $75,000. The contractors were Bishop and Cutting of Worcester, Mass. (J.K. Lord 1928). Rand & Taylor also built the Worcester Hospital for the Insane and designed other pavilion-plan hospitals in Vermont.

The original capacity of the hospital was 36 beds (Pollard 1961, 200). The operating theater of the Surgical Building held 125 people. In 1913 Mrs. Dawn L. Hitchcock of Gorham, N.H. donated an addition to the west that brought capacity to 63 beds (J.K. Lord 1928, 52). The Carter X-Ray Building opened in 1930 and by 1938 there were a four story lab wing next to Carter, a new heating plant, a new nurses' residence, and the Hitchcock Clinic attached to the hospital (Land, 62). The Hospital built a modernist tower (see Faulkner House) on the former front lawn in 1952.

The College purchased the hospital property c.1989 and hired Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates to provide a plan for using it. Though the College considered selective demolition and renovation to make use of the bulk of the building, they chose to demolish almost all of the complex beginning in the fall of 1995, a total of about 650,000 square feet (DAM Nov. 1996 p15). The successor Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in the Lebanon woods was completed and all of the hospital functions had moved out.
Today only the west pavilion survives as 3 Rope Ferry Road, along with the later A&B Ward or 5 Rope Ferry Road and the Colonial Hitchcock Clinic to the south of it at 1 Rope Ferry. The remaining pavilion was originally the Women's Ward and held 10 beds, with a porch and exit to the west . The set of rooms in the block to the north, originally included, from the north, a Nurse's Room and three wards on the west and a lavatory, bathroom, clothes room, linen closet and kitchen on the east. The current entrance to the east was originally part of the arcaded corridor to the main building, and the archway that surrounds the entrance is made from details salvaged from the demolition.

HOOD MUSEUM ANNEX 1985 (?)
The annex connects to the eastern end of the Hood Museum and abuts the west end of the Heating Plant and Clement Hall. The building appeared as Clement Hall in one c.1985 map.

HOOD MUSEUM 1981-1983
The College's art museum occupied Carpenter Hall, originally a gallery, from the 1930s. By the 1950s the works needed more space and the Hopkins Center was intended to hold them, but budget pressures squeezed the gallery functions into a too-small space now called the Jaffee-Friede Gallery south of the Hinman Boxes. Trustee Harvey Hood of the class of 1918 gave the funds for the new museum in 1978 (Richard Teitz in Searing, 123).

Charles Moore and Chad Floyd of Moore Grover Harper designed the museum, their first to be finished, on a tortured site that had earlier housed the former Kappa Kappa Kappa Hall, a house at 9 College Street, and other houses to the south. The design process involved some consultation with students and others who evaluated various models displayed in the firm's temporary office adjoining the Hop's snack bar (Moore in Searing, 125); one of at least five options the architects rejected would have brought the museum through the Hop to embrace that building's entrance with a second pavilion in the Zahm Garden.

The Hood stands on a concrete slab foundation over an underground stream and marshy ground, rather than standing on pilings as the Hop does (Brenner, 1986). The building cost $5.4 million to build and was completed by Jackson Construction, Inc. (Searing, 127). The Museum encompasses 37,000 square feet and has 11,700 feet of gallery space (Searing, 123). The rather traditionally-designed galleries are reminiscent of an 18th-century collector's cabinet or English stately homes as the architect noted (Moore in Searing, 125). The building connects the Hopkins Center and Wilson Hall, which the firm remodeled for Film Department uses at the same time, and in a second bridge it connects to the Hopkins Center at a lower point. The 244-seat Arthur M. Loew Auditorium occupies the Museum's first floor.

The Hood surrounds a courtyard called the Bedford Courtyard, and it helps define a second open space onto which the Courtyard Cafe faces. Here the firm also designed the adjoining Hood Museum Shop and Courtyard Cafe in the Hopkins Center, presumably added when the building underwent a remodeling in 1987. The Hood is Dartmouth's most acclaimed building in decades, but its users do have some criticisms: the snow-shedding bridge roofs require temporary protective scaffolding in winter, and the Museum's entrance at the end of the curving ramp is difficult to find since it faces into the building. The Museum has felt the need to expand since not long after it occupied the Hood; the designers left open the possibility of extending the museum southward toward Brewster or eastward toward Clement.

HOPKINS CENTER FOR THE VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 1962 (THEATER [II])
Harrison and Abramovitz designed the building, with Walter Colvin as project architect and Campbell & Aldrich consulting for the College. Harrison had earlier worked on the Rockefeller Center in New York and would later design the U.N. Building and Lincoln Center. The arts center stand on the sites of houses including the one-time Crane House and those at 8 College Street and 10 College Street; to build the center, which spans the length of a block, the College demolished or moved the following buildings: Bissell Gymnasium; the running track in the Quadrangle; numbers 3, 4, and 6 College Street; and numbers 8, 10, 12, and 14 Lebanon Street. The College named the complex for then-President Emeritus Ernest Martin Hopkins.

The Hopkins comprises a theater block, Alumni Hall, studio block, and Spaulding Auditorium. The theater block bears the iconic Hop facade facing the Green, and it contains the 450-seat Moore Theater. An entrance lobby lounge mediates between the bluestone-paved courtyard and the theater itself; below this lobby is a black-box or arena theater. The Alumni Hall adjacent to the west is an open, barrel-vaulted room on the second floor, and below it is the cluster of student mailboxes known as the Hinman Boxes. These sections form the front of the Center; the narrow one-story studio block with its saw-toothed roof connects the Alumni Hall block to Spaulding Auditorium in the rear. The auditorium seats 900 and was specifically designed to accommodate a whole class year. "All these areas are opened up as much as possible toward major circulation spaces so the undergraduate 'sidewalk superintendents' may see others at work in the arts." The designers intended the building "both a physical focus and a significant context for the social life of the college... (to) expose all of our students to painting, sculpture, architecture, music, poetry, print making, woodworking, the craft arts and the theater," wrote President Dickey in the Architectural Record, December 1964. The building cost approximately $7,500,000.

The Hop is a replacement for the inadequate theater in the top of Robinson Hall, but as an arts center it took decades to get built. At one time in the 1930s, J.F. Larson planned a theater on this site as a mirror to Webster (Widmayer 1991, 175). In 1946 the Alumni Council recommended an auditorium big enough for the entire student body and faculty, part of which was to be called the Hopkins Center, and to include a WWII memorial (Widmayer 1991, 26). Planners at this time intended the Center to be three separate buildings containing a theater, art building and crafts workshop; they added a music building and eventually combined the facilities into a complex (Williams, 17).

The Harrison building went through two major versions; the first one appeared in the August 1957 Architectural Record p.185 in the form of floorplan and a rendering by Paul Sample. The building is basically what now stands, though the theater loft takes a more barn-like form with a gable on each side. Spaulding auditorium also has a gabled roof. Most importantly, the arches are absent from the main facade. In part because of Alumni reactions to the untraditional character of this design, Harrison added the arch motif that sets the image of the building and later reappeared in the Lincoln Center.

The Hop has been called a "gargantuan modernist culture palace," "unfashionable or even alien to the scale and style of its next-door neighbors" in Architectural Record (Brenner, 1986). Dignitaries laid the building's cornerstone on 15 June 1960 (Widmayer 1991, 166). The stone bears an engraving of a stylized pine tree and is visible in the east exterior wall. The building's dedication took place on 8 November 1962 (Widmayer 1991, 174), and included a fanfare for brass that Vincent Persichetti composed for the occasion. At the dedication speech in Spaulding Auditorium, Mr. Harrison said "a building is either clean and straightforward or it is a mess. This building will never have any conspicuous marks like pimples on the outside because it is a clean building. Thank you" (Hopkins Center Construction File, College Archives).

The College expanded the mailboxes in 1972 (From Dartmouth 1972, 3) and remodeled parts of the complex in 1985 in conjunction with the construction of the Hood Museum--the Snack Bar was expanded into the Courtyard Cafe at this time. The College remodeled the Center Theater in 1995 and renamed it the Moore Theater.

HOUSE OF SIX SCHOLARS* by 1773 (1XXX)
The early wooden house stood one mile south of the College near the sawmill and gristmill on Mink Brook, below Sand Hill. Students who worked in the mills built this "curiosity," and they lived "a kind of philosophic, laborious life; they maintain themselves by their labor" as the visiting Jeremy Belknap described them; he said the house had one room and one chamber with a wooden clock and brook-water ingeniously piped inside (Chase, 288). Joseph Vaill, 1778 described the construction and how the students hauled stones a great distance to construct the chimney (Brown, 36). During an early inoculation controversy (Chase 531) the house was one of those designated as a quarantine site. The cellars of two houses on this site were still to be seen in 1891, one of which Mr. Follett lived in: possibly this one and a neighbor? (Chase, 238).

HOWE LIBRARY (II) 1975
The town library stands on the southeast corner of East South and South College Streets and contains the institution that occupied the Wheelock Mansion House until 1975 (Barrett, 18). Geoffrey T. Freeman of Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson and Abbott of Boston planned the functioning of the library.

HUBBARD HALL* (a) (HUBBARD HOUSE) 1842-3 (1910)
Professor O.P. Hubbard had this brick house built facing the Green roughly where Parkhurst Hall stands today. The house passed to Professor E.T. Quimby. In 1899 the College bought the property from his estate in 1899 (R.N. Hill, 294) and used it as the first dormitory of the Tuck School (J.K. Lord 1928, 48). The hall held 20 students (Richardson 1932, 677). In 1906 the College added a clapboard dormitory called New Hubbard behind the building, though it would move that building back and demolish Hubbard Hall in 1910 to build Parkhurst Hall.

HUBBARD HALL* (b) 1906 (1931) (NEW HUBBARD) (HUBBARD NO. 2)
The yellow wooden dormitory of three stories and a hipped roof stood at the back of the brick Hubbard House, where Parkhurst now stands. Charles Rich designed the hall, which was "erected in haste to meet an unexpected emergency" at a cost of $19,804 (Richardson 1932, 677). The College demolished the main Hubbard Hall in 1910 and moved this building north to a site between Hitchcock and North Massachusetts Halls (Hubbard Hall file, College Archives). The hall held 48 students (Richardson 1932, 677). In 1918 the hall became a barracks (R.N. Hill, 241). A student poem described the building as "That 'ugly duckling' of the campus,/ A yellow frame and dreary building,/ Three stories high and much the worse for wear" (Joslyn). Because "its plain and boxlike exterior did not blend well with the more modern buildings on campus" (Graham, press release) the College demolished the building in 1931; in 1981 workers uncovered the foundations as the College modified the road between North Massachusetts and Hitchcock Halls (Graham, press release).

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ICE RINK* (I) by 1927 (1928)
The outdoor rink lay east of the Gym on the future site of Davis Rink and later Berry Gymnasium. The rink probably dates to the years between 1922 and 1927.

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ROSEY JEKES 18XX (G.A.R. HALL) (GRAND ARMY HALL) (ODD FELLOWS' HALL [I]) (GRANGE [II])
Building built in the latter part of the 19th Century by the Grand Army of the Republic, the fraternal organization for Northern veterans of the Civil War, between 13 and 15 Lebanon Street (on the southwest corner of Lebanon and South College Streets). Used by the Odd Fellows from their foundation in 1888 for a year and a half (J.K. Lord 1928, 289). The Grange (refounded 1886) also met here as its permanent home after meeting for a time in Culver Hall and continued for at least forty years (J.K. Lord 1928, 290).

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KAPPA DELTA EPSILON HOUSE 1898-99 (DELTA UPSILON HOUSE [II])(FOLEY HOUSE [I]) (ALPHA CHI OMEGA HOUSE) (XI KAPPA CHI HOUSE)
The sorority house stands at 9 Webster Avenue. H.D. Foster owned the building by 1905, when it first appears on Sanborn maps; H.G. Foster owned the building by 1928, and F.M. Moody by 1931. The 1926 Delta Upsilon Fraternity had moved from Pike House into this building by 1950. The fraternity transformed into Foley House (From Dartmouth 1970, 34) in 1966, and the building remained Foley through at least the mid-1980s and later moved to the current Foley House on West Street. At some time the College purchased the house, and was renting it to the 1980 Alpha Chi Omega Sorority by c.1990. That organization became the local Xi Kappa Chi Sorority c.1990 (Aegis 1990), then the local Kappa Delta Epsilon Sorority in 1993.

KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA HOUSE 1842 (ABIGAIL DEWEY HOUSE) (SENATOR PATTERSON HOUSE) (GRADUATE CLUB [II])
Mrs. Abigail Dewey owned the house that stood on the site of the present east entrance to Baker Library on College Street, occupying the site of Professor Bezaleel Woodward's 1771 house which had burned around 1833 (J.K. Lord 1928, 52). Bissell owned the house by 1855, and later Senator James Patterson lived there. The College bought the building and was and using it as the Graduate Club by 1928. The house was moved in 1925 (?) to its present location at 24 East Wheelock Street while other parts of it became houses around Toy Town (McCarter, 54). It is still owned by the College and the 1978 Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority has occupied it since before 1986 (Aegis 1986).

KAPPA KAPPA KAPPA HALL* (I) 1860 (c.196X) (DRAGON SOCIETY HALL [II]) (COLLEGE NATURALIST)
The one-story clapboard hall stood at 11 College street just south of Wilson Hall. The 1842 Kappa Kappa Fraternity built the hall as the first freestanding fraternity building in Hanover (J.K. Lord 1928, 64) and one of the first in the country. In 1894 the society moved to a house located where Silsby is now (J.K. Lord 1928, 49) and at some time the 1898 Dragon Society occupied the building. That organization remodeled the building in 1917, giving it a columned portico, and occupied it until moving to their new tomb on Elm Street in 1931. The College Naturalist later occupied the building and appears there in maps of 1950. A 1961 map lists the College Photographer and Student Workshops as occupants. At some time after finishing the Hopkins Center the College demolished the building, whose footprint fits approximately in the northeast corner of the courtyard created by the Hood Museum.

KAPPA KAPPA KAPPA HOUSE* (II) 1868-70 (1927)
Professor Henry E. Parker had this house built at 22 North Main Street, now under the center of Silsby. The Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity bought the house in 1894 (J.K. Lord 1928, 49) and thus become the second fraternity to acquire a house with living quarters after Alpha Delta Phi in 1872 (Richardson 1932, 732). The College bought the house from the society in 1924 and had demolished or moved the building by 1927 when it finished constructing Silsby. A 1928 map calls the building simply "old frat house." The society moved up the street to 1 Webster Avenue, their current house.

KAPPA KAPPA KAPPA HOUSE (III) 1925 (KAPPA CHI KAPPA HOUSE)
The Kappa Kappa Kappa Fraternity built their third house at 1 Webster Avenue, though a 1928 map lists the building as 28 Main Street. The house is two stories high with an attic, and it has a semicircular entrance porch attached to a projecting bay at the west end of the house. The College had owned the lot since the late 19th century when it opened Webster Avenue and intended to put faculty housing here, though the site remained empty. When the College built Silsby Hall in 1927 and moved the fraternity out of its house on that site, it arranged for the fraternity to build here. Larson & Wells designed the building, which the fraternity finished in June of 1923. The building contains approximately 93,800 cubic feet and cost 40 cents per cubic foot (Architectural Forum, December 1925, 372). All fourteen of its original bedrooms are on the second floor.

KAPPA SIGMA HOUSE (II) 1915 (c.1937)
The fraternity built this one-story Arts & Crafts cottage on the north side of Webster Avenue as the third fraternity on the street in 1915 (J.K. Lord 1928, 68); the organization bought the vacant lot from Delta Kappa Epsilon. The group replaced the house with a 1937 building now known as the Chi Gamma Epsilon House.

KELLOG AUDITORIUM 1962
The Medical School auditorium stands between Dick's House and Remsen and connects to Remsen by a skybridge.

KEMENY HALL c.2002-10 (MATHEMATICS BUILDING)
The hall will bear the name of mathematics professor and College President from John G. Kemeny (1970-1981), the Trustees announced on 21 July 1998 (Shartsis). Originally envisioned as part of the early-1990s quadrangle plans of VSBA, the mathematics building was intended to stand on Maynard Street as the eastern gatepost of the quad. The building was to take the place of Winifred Raven Convalescent Home and share an underground lecture hall with the Moore psychology building to the west. Kemeny also would have connected to the Sudikoff computer science building to the east. The building was expected to cost $7.5-$11 million. The previous home of the mathematics department, the 1961 Bradley Hall, was to fall to the wrecking ball as part of the Berry Library and Carson Hall construction project. The plans changed by early 2001, however, and the school began planning Kemeny as a two-phase building for the Kiewit site. Architects Bohlin Cywinski Jackson of Philadelphia designed the first phase, a building to be grafted onto the remaining Bradley after Gerry's demolition. Phase II will replace Bradley.

KIEWIT COMPUTATION CENTER 1966 (2000)
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill designed this computer center for the Kemeny administration. The low one-story building is vaguely Classical in form and has a reinforced concrete roof supported by peripteral columns of steel; a high horizontal band of lights pierces the building's wall. The building's simple rectangular footprint stands on the site of Elm House and encroaches on what were once the west end of the Clark School and the site of the Sigma Nu House (II). The Machine Room forms the heart of the building, and the College's computing moved here from Gerry Hall. The College named the building for Peter Kiewit '22 and Peter Kiewit Sons' Inc. constructed the building (Widmayer 1991, 199) and dedicated it in the fall of 1967 (Widmayer 1991, 237). The building was demolished beginning December 2000.

INCREASE KIMBALL HOUSE* about 1803 (around 1850)
Increase Kimball had his house built opposite future northeast corner of Wentworth Hall, 15 rods east of Kinsman Commons, which stood roughly on the future site of Rollins. The house stood on the lane that led to Eleazar Wheelock, Jr.'s house. Mrs. Betsy True, Kimball's sister, occupied the house, and Gen. Poole used it in 1804 as a general store for two years before he moved to College Street, the Haskell House. Samuel H.G. Rowley occupied the house in 1806 and moved his business here from the west side of the Green before building his own building between this house and Kinsman in 1807. The College bought the building in 1837 and demolished it around 1850 (J.K. Lord 1928, 5, 8).

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