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The promised catalog of Dartmouth buildings has yet to be written, and these notes toward that catalog are now more than a decade old. They were compiled largely from sometimes-unreliable secondary sources and in some cases introduce their own inaccuracies as well. Corrections are more than welcome while this list remains on line, perhaps for another year, but updates for new buildings stopped being added at some point between 2001 and 2004. |
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Top | How:
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The chronological outline af Dartmouth's architectural history lists all of the major College buildings and some privately-owned structures with an emphasis on the current campus. Some of the arbitrary periods are named for the chief campus architect of the time. |
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The alphabetical index lists all buildings and spaces about which information is readily available. This list can be slow to load. |
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| Map |
The clickable map depicts the campus as it appeared in 1998. |
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| See also the site Views of Dartmouth College |
Views of Dartmouth College includes images from postcards and the Library of Congress American Memory site, most from 1890-1930. |
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Top | What:
These notes contain information on about 450 buildings, streets, and open spaces related to the College, all built between 1755 and the present.
What's in an entry:
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LATEST NAME* (I) Year Built (Year Demolished)
The asterisk signifies that this building no longer exists and the (I) refers to its relative order among successive buildings: the two Dartmouth Halls are (I) and (II). A building might be known only by its street number.
-LATEST NAME (a) Year Built (Other Name)
The dash shows that this building is outside of Hanover and the (a) shows that it is the earlier of several unrelated buildings that share a name, such as the two unrelated Elm Houses (with sources in parenthesis).
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By all means blitz me new information.
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Top | Why:
Names were the original reason for this catalog: where one history will refer to the Golden Corner another describes the same building as the Balch Mansion. To add to the confusion, the predecessor building on the same site was known as Unity House after it was known as Chi Phi; the successor building is the familiar Collis Center, which began life as College Hall. This list simply attempts to sort one building from another and give them dates. In very few cases I have supplied a name for a feature, such as the Quadripylon behind Robinson or the Roaring Maw, the steam-tunnel ventilator on the Green. But the actual past inevitably provides more than enough quirkiness: who would imagine that the Princeton Theological Seminary once owned a house near Wentworth Hall, or that a prim Victorian bank once stood where the lawn of the Collis Center is now, or that President Hopkins wanted a Gothic chapel to rise above Dartmouth Hall?
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Top | Cite this document:
You can cite this document as follows:
Scott Meacham, "Notes toward a Catalog of the Buildings and Landscapes of Dartmouth College," Dartmo.: The Buildings of Dartmouth College (updated 2001), at http://www.dartmo.com/buildings (viewed _____ [date]).
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