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Notes toward a Catalog of the Buildings and Landscapes of Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.A.


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LA CASA ca. 1820 (42 COLLEGE STREET)
Dr. Dixi Crosby operated a private hospital in the ca. 1820 house at 42 College Street from at least 1850 to his retirement from the Medical School faculty in 1870. Long-time Dean of the Thayer School Robert Fletcher acquired the house after CrosbyÕs death in 1873 and occupied it for the next 63 years, and the College acquired it upon FletcherÕs death. The Department of Spanish and Portuguese sponsors La Casa, a language immersion program for the house residents.

LAKE HITCHCOCK
Melt waters of the retreating glaciers at the wane of the most recent ice age created a long, narrow lake that stretched from Lyme, N.H. to East Haddam, Ct. The lake deposited the glacial silt that forms the Hanover Plain, with Occom Ridge being a moraine left by the glacier beforehand. The lake is named for its theorizer, Professor Charles A. Hitchcock, founder of the Geology Department (Graham 1990, 4).

LANG BUILDING 1937
The College built the small commercial block that stands south of and connected to the Inn. It occupies the site of the Guyer and Carter Blocks, the second of which had been destroyed in a fire earlier in 1937 (Widmayer 1977, 218). The College remodeled the building in 1980 and again in 1994, when work for the Gap included raising the level of the ground floor.

LANG HALL* 1791 (by 1896)
Richard Lang of Salem Ma., the first general merchandiser in town, built the low two-story house with a hipped roof on the site that Webster Hall occupies today. Lang was the "prince of businessmen of that day" (J.K. Lord 1928, 25) and also built Unity House and Elm House (b). He occupied the house from 1791-1820 (J.K. Lord 1928, 52), renting it between 1830 and 1838 as the bookstore and printing office of Thomas Mann, and afterward for students' rooms. It was known as Lang Hall by at least 1855. The house was given in 1865 to Dr. A. B. Crosby on the condition that he would remove it and fill the hole, and he moved it to the rear of his father's house, today's Crosby Hall/Blunt Alumni Center. There he converted it to a residence (J.K. Lord 1928, 52). The 1896 Crosby Hall dormitory addition probably removed the building if it had not already disappeared.

LEDYARD APARTMENT 1921
Jens Larson's firm designed the white clapboard apartment at 19 East Wheelock Street, on the northwest corner of Wheelock and North Park Streets. The College began building the apartments to house new faculty members in 1921 (Widmayer 1977, 50) and it appears on maps of 1922. Scattered Arts and Crafts tiles line the brick stairhall.

LEDYARD BANK BUILDING 1867 (ODD FELLOWS' HALL [II]) (WHITCOMB BLOCK) (HANOVER HARDWARE [I])
The now-yellow wooden building stands south of the Bridgman Block and north of the Shawmut Building. The building marks the stopping point of the 1886 Main Street Fire as it moved south from the Inn; thus it would seem to be the oldest commercial building on Main Street. P.H. Whitcomb owned the bulding at least by 1905, and the Odd Fellows and Vitruvian are listed in the Whitcomb Block c.1890-1900. The building bore the number 34 in 1905 and 38-40 in 1931. Hanover Hardware occupied the block before moving to 3 East South Street. Randall T. Mudge & Associates designed the insertion of Ledyard National Bank into the building, which required workers to remove the entire interior, including the floors.

LEDYARD BRIDGE* (II) 1934 (1998) (BRIDGE [V])
The concrete and steel bridge replaced the earlier covered bridge. The Bridge had two traffic lanes and a sidewalk on the northern side; a pair of lanterns flanked the roadway at each end. The bridge relied on a single abutment in the center of the River. The Departments of Transportation of New Hampshire and Vermont demolished and replaced the bridge in 1998 when it had become badly weakened (Heinrichs 1994).

LEDYARD BRIDGE* (III) 1998 (BRIDGE [VI])
The concrete and steel bridge replaced the earlier bridge of similar but much smaller design. The Departments of Transportation of New Hampshire and Vermont constructed the bridge in two halves, the southern one first while the previous bridge was still in use. The bridge uses two abutments in the River and required the approach along West Wheelock Street to be straighter and widener than it was previously; now the street runs straight to the bridge rather than jogging to the south.

LEDYARD CANOE CLUB 1920
The clubhouse houses canoes, meeting room, a kitchen and dwelling rooms, and stands north of the Boathouse.

LEDYARD FREE BRIDGE* (I) 1859 (1934) (BRIDGE [IV]) (OLD BRIDGE)
The only covered bridge to stand at this crossing became necessary after the White River Falls Bridge (III) burned in 1854. This was the first free bridge over the Connecticut and only arose after much controversy and a N.H. Supreme Court decision. During the completion ceremony in the College Church, Dr. Crosby moved that it be named after John Ledyard. The bridge survived freshets of 1869 and 1927, and underwent minor repairs in 1911. The D.C. Training Detachment replaced the bridge floor as a practice project in 1918 (Clark, 40). The Highway Department added heavy arches along the road in 1927. Though still sturdy, the Highway Department replaced the bridge because of traffic needs in 1934 with the concrete and steel bridge (Waterman, 38).

LEDYARD MONUMENT 1909
The plaque affixed to a rock just south of the Ledyard Canoe Club records the site of the tree which Ledyard felled and made into a canoe for his departure from Hanover. The first paragraph of the 1955 Commencement address of Robert Frost, 1896:

This is a rounding out for you, and a rounding out is the main part of it. You're rounding out four years. I'm rounding out something like 63, isn't it? But it is a real rounding out for me. I'm one of the original members of the Outing Club--me and Ledyard. You don't know it, and I shouldn't tell it perhaps, but I go every year, once a year, to touch Ledyard's monument down there, as the patron saint of freshmen who run away. And I ran away because I was more interested in education than anybody in the College at the time.     (Frost in Brown, 329).

LEVERONE FIELD HOUSE 1962-1963
Pier Luigi Nervi engineered the 63-foot high hall as his first large work in the U.S. The building resembles his Palazetto dello Sport at the 1960 Olympics in Rome (Widmayer 1991, 163). Dartmouth's Business Manager Mr. Oldmsted devised the idea of hiring Nervi and contracted his services on a visit to Rome (Widmayer 1991, 163). Campbell and Aldrich were the architects on the project (Hunt, 34). The building's site on South Park Street included only a Stone Crusher and the Edward Gould House in 1905; the crusher was gone and the Gould house was the only structure there in 1931. The College dedicated the hall on 18 November 1962, and has used it since for an indoor running track and tennis courts. The College installed AstroTurf in 1972 (From Dartmouth 1972, 3).

-LEWISTON* 17XX (196X)
The once-thriving town stood directly across the river from Hanover and is distinct from Norwich up the hill. Bloody Brook, which reaches the River under the stone railroad bridge and was named because of the effluent from a tannery upstream, flanked the town on the south. A saloon called the "Bucket of Blood" after the brook once operated in the town. A brothel also operated in the town. During the early part of the 20th century the town declined, and the Interstate 91 on-ramps destroyed most of what was left in the 1960s. All that survive are the railroad station where Dartmouth students once met their dates for Carnival, now a private men's club; a large corrugated warehouse, owned by the College; a house now used as the Pottery Studio by the College; a decaying coal trestle where Hanover once received all of its fuel; some rails are still in place; and a pair of houses.

-LEWISTON OFFICE 1940
The College owns an office in the former town of Lewiston (Facilities).

-LEWISTON WAREHOUSE 1940
The college owns the large gray corrugated warehouse with its own rail spur in the former town of Lewiston (Facilities).

THE LITTLE COLLEGE* (TEMPLE OF CLOACINA) (NUMBER TEN) The outhouse behind Dartmouth Hall was in use by the late 18th Century (R.N. Hill, 199).

LITTLE HALL 1956
The Cardigan Mountain School acquired the Clark School property in the Spring of 1953 and Dartmouth bought it in the fall: other than the seven school buildings, the property included the playing field behind Cutter where the Choates stand today (Widmayer 1991, 94). The Choates were the first major buildings of the Dickey reign and introduced Modernist architecture to Dartmouth. The College began construction in the Summer of 1956 and the cluster cost $1.5 million, with some funding from the U.S. Housing and Home Finance Administration (Widmayer 1991, 136). Campbell, Aldrich & Nulty designed the dormitory group. Little was the first Choate dormitory that students occupied, and it opened in February 1958 (Widmayer 1991, 107). One of the four dormitories is named for Trustee Clarence Little of 1881 (ORL). The hall is arranged in suites, each with a bathroom, and shares a separate lounge with Brown to which it connects by skywalk. The dormitories originally had ground-level faculty apartments in the pods under the lounges ("a new concept of dormitory life as recommended by the Commission on Campus Life"): the former apartment beneath the Little-Brown lounge housed the Women's Resource Center by the early 1990s and its function as an apartment had faded from memory. In 1961 the hall held held 75 in eight or nine-man suites including 27 singles and 24 doubles (Office of the Bursar); the hall held 72 in 30 singles and 21 doubles in 1990. In 1970 the Choates became a "semi-autonomous living unit" housing two faculty members and 75 women transfer students (From Dartmouth 1970, 34). The College remodeled the hall in 1984.

THE LODGE 1961 (HANOVER INN MOTOR LODGE)
The dormitory began life as overflow or budget accommodation for the Hanover Inn (R.N. Hill). The student occupancy was 76 in 38 doubles in 1990, with a full bath and carpeting in every room, as well as a commn kitchen and lounge (ORL). The College renovated the hall in 1993. The building stands coincidentally across from the former site of South Hall, itself once a hotel and twice made into College housing of something less than the highest popularity. The Lodge stands east of Sargent Street/Place, now more of a driveway, and occupies the sites of these houses that existed in 1950. Number 19 Lebanon Street appears on maps of 1905, when H.W. Carter owned the building; he also owned it in 1928, with G.R. Burkinshaw listed in 1931. The second is 21 Lebanon Street, also extant in 1905, when the O'Leary Estate appears as the owner; Carter owned the house in 1928 and Mrs. A.E. Barnes in 1931. Finally, the Lodge occupies the site of the house at 23 Lebanon Street, extant in 1855 when it L. Haskell owned it. Horace E. Hurlbutt owned the house in 1905, Baird in 1928, and R.B. Baird and Miss Irene Collins occupied it in 1931.

LOG HUT MONUMENT 19XX
A plaque on a large rock behind Russell Sage records the first site of Wheelock's Log Hut.

LOG HUT* 1770 (c.1782)
Eleazar Wheelock wrote in his 1771 A plain and faithfull Narrative of his arrival on the Hanover Plain in 1770:

I arrived in August, and found matters in such a situation as at once convinced me of the necessity of being myself upon the spot. And as there was no house conveniently near, I made a hutt of loggs about eighteen feet square without stone, brick, glass or nail.     (Wheelock in Brown, 16)

The hut first stood where a stone today marks its site, behind Butterfield Hall or on the site of Silsby (R.N. Hill, 34). In 1891, Chase describe the site as

still marked by a depression in the land lately owned by the Scientific Department, some ten rods west from the "Rope Ferry Road," in the rear of the house of Miss McMurphy, and near the hedge of spruce which marks the old governor's line. The trace of one of the unsuccessful wells was till recently visible at the western end of Professor Parker's garden.     (Chase, 221).

Miss McMurphy's is Webster Cottage, whose lot Silsby and the Rockefeller Center now occupy. The hedge of spruce remains along Tuck Drive behind the southern Webster Avenue fraternities. Wheelock's party dug five or more dry wells before finding water near today's Reed Hall, and the workers moved the hut and the unfinished College Hall. The new site was at the northeast corner of the path between Reed and Thornton according to the 1905 Thayer map: thus the hut stood north of Reed and west of Thornton, and this is where it would remain for the rest of its existence. His family arrived, and Wheelock writes:

I housed my stuff, with my wife, and the females of my family in my hutt--my sons and students made booths & beds of hemlock boughs, and in this situation we continued about a mnth, tll the 29th day of October, when I removed with my family into my house.     (Wheelock, in Brown, 17).
At some time Wheelock's "servants" occupied the hut according to Chase; presumably some or all of Wheelock's several slaves. The hut remained about 12 years and Wheelock cherished it as a relic, mentioning it in his will as a bequest to his son (Chase, 222). Belknap called the hut "the first sprout of the College" (R.N. Hill, 39). Wheelock died in 1779, and students destroyed the badly rotted building in 1782 or 1783 (Chase, 572).

LONE PINE STUMP 17XX (1895) (OLD PINE) (LONE PINE)
Students called the pre-Revolutionary pine that grew on College Hill just southeast of the present Bartlett Tower the Old Pine. In the 1850s classes gathered to smoke a pipe and sing "When Shall We Three Meet Again" at its base. At the time the surrounding forest was recovering from its 18th-century clearance and the Old Pine, possibly spared because it was not useful as cut wood, was the tallest landmark in the area. Lightning damaged the pine in 1887 and a windstorm ruined it in 1892, and the College cut it down in 1895 (R.N. Hill, 237). The College preserved the stump and surrounded it with a concrete coping and descriptive plaque with an inscription composed by President Tucker. Today the stump, known as the "Lone Pine Stump," has been refurbished and remains covered most of the year, with some of the Class Day Ceremony continuing to take place there.

LORD HALL 1929
The ell-shaped dormitory is the easternmost in the Gold Coast group, the most expensive living quarters during the Depression (ORL). Jens Frederick Larson designed the building, which bears the name of prominent trustee John K Lord (ORL). Lord and Streeter together cost $297,000 (Richardson 1932, 776); Gile predates the pair. An open arcade connects the hall to Streeter to the east. The building housed 76 in 18 singles and 29 doubles in 1961 (Office of the Bursar); it held seven more in 37 singles, 8 doubles and 10 triples in 1990 (ORL). The building was one of ten Navy V-12 dormitories during W.W.II. and operated as the ship "U.S.S. Lord" (Navy at Dartmouth, 1944).

PRESIDENT NATHAN LORD HOUSE 1802 (AFRO-AMERICAN SOCIETY [II]) (INTERNATIONAL STUDENT CENTER [I]) (FRANCOPHONE HOUSE)
William H. Woodward had the house built facing the Green on Wentworth Street, next door to the later Webster Hall. Woodward died in 1818 and the family sold it to President Nathan Lord in 1830, with Lord occupying it until 1863. The house remained in his family, who sold it to Andrew Moody in 1872. Moody's estate left the house to the College in 1894 (J.K. Lord 1928, 52). The College was using the structure as an administration building by 1905, transferring that function to Parkhurst in 1911. To clear the Quadrangle the College moved the house in 1920 to 41 College Street, just north of the pre-1855 site of the Carpenter House and across from today's La Casa. C.C. Stewart occupied the house by 1928 and Arthur Fairbanks in 1931. The College devoted the house to the Afro-American Society in 1968, and it became the International Student Center in 1970 (From Dartmouth 1970, 34). In 1972 the College moved the building again, this time through College Park to 14 North Park Street. This move made room for the Sherman Fairchild Center (From Dartmouth, Summer 1972, 1). Residents failed in a 1990 vote to rename the building the Fidel Castro House, but the move caused a controversy. By 1990 the building housed five residents (VSBA) and now holds the Francophone house. The house has new chimneys but remains "an excellent period structure of good proportion and detailing, and is thought to have been actually designed and constructed by Joseph Emerson of Norwich, Vermont. Several early homes across the river that are know to have been built by him have a very close resemblance" (Barrett, Town of Hanover calendar, date unknown). The house is not to be confused with the Professors Lord House next door. The house was moved in November 2002 to approximately at 33 Lyme Road to make room for graduate student housing.

PROFESSORS LORD HOUSE 1810 (DR. FREDERIC P. LORD HOUSE) (NATIVE AMERICANS AT DARTMOUTH HOUSE [I])
Aaron Hutchinson of Lebanon had the house built for his son Henry, a Hanover lawyer, on land that was once the north half of the Kimball lot. This lot, the future site of Steele Hall, was the one Dr. Nathan Smith had bought in 1806 and who sold in 1810 to Hutchinson. Henry Hutchinson left about 1825; later College officers occupied the house, including Professors W. Chamberlain, S.G. Brown, J.M. Putnam by 1855, W.A. Packard, J.K. Lord and F.P. Lord. To build Steele the College moved the house in 1920 one lot to the north, that is 39 College Street, south of the Lord House (J.K. Lord 1928, 60). The College bought the house in 1956 (J.M. Lord, 111), moving it in 1972 to 16 North Park Street to make way for Fairchild (From Dartmouth Summer 1972, 1). There the house became the first N.A.D. House, housing five in singles with a sixth in a guest room (ORL). The house is not to be confused with the Lord House next door. The house was moved in November 2002 to a site at approximately 9 Lyme Road to make room for graduate student housing.

LYME ROAD (ROUTE 10) (LIME STREET) (RIVER ROAD) 1770s
Lyme Road was laid out from the corner of today's Main and Wheelock diagonally across the Green to the northeast and thence to the town of Lyme upriver, an extension of the 1775 road from Lebanon to the south (Morrison, 54).


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McCOLLUM MODULAR LABORATORY 1980s (M.M. LAB)
The building stands east of the entrance to Vail, at around 56 College Street on the site of a house of that address. The building has a large sloping roof and tower.

McCULLOCH HALL 1999-2000 (NEW DORM) (THE POD)
Finished in the summer of 2000 and opened to students that fall, McCulloch Hall is the fourth dormitory in the New Dorms or East Wheelock Cluster and joins Andres, Morton and Zimmerman, all completed in 1987. The building is named for Trustee Emeritus Norman E. (Sandy) McCulloch, Jr.,1950, and houses about 80 students in 40,000 square feet. Though Herbert S. Newman Associates designed the original cluster, including a fourth building that was not built, the Philadelphia firm of Atkin, Olshin, Lawson-Bell was asked to design McCulloch to complete the cluster. The building juts to the west at right angles to Morton, occupying the site of a long 1920s garage. The building connects to the rest of the cluster through an enclosed bilevel walkway.

The project got underway in November of 1998 when the school gave the contract to North Branch Construction of Henniker (northbranch.net/e.htm); the garage was demolished in April 1999 and the foundation completed by August. The roof was completed in December, 1999 and the building first occupied in September 2000. The project cost $6.2 million.

Several elements make McCulloch unique. As the school's first dormitory built since passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the hall is also the first to have a built-in elevator. And all of the building's furniture is built of wood taken from the managed woods of the Second College Grant.

The College intends McCulloch to foster a spirit of community among its residents, cited as a failing of the precursor New Dorms. Residents' rooms, consisting of one-room singles and two-room doubles, are combined in suites of four to nine students adjoining shared living areas. The most notable plan feature is the "unconventional" bathroom layout, aimed at fostering social interaction: the sinks are placed in higher-traffic public areas outside the bathrooms proper. This move apparently invokes the "bathroom bonding" by which less popular dormitory clusters such as the Choates salvage their reputations. Special attention has been paid the doors: those giving onto the common rooms or connecting the two rooms of a double are without locks. Also, doors stay open without props since they lack spring hinges common to most dormitory rooms.

Community is also invoked in academic pursuits: The building has a common study with a gas fireplace as well as a traditional recreation room. In the basement is a wired seminar room, curiously reversing the era when classes were held in students' rooms: this is perhaps the first time at the school that regular academic classes will take place in a dormitory classroom (Thomas).

On graduation Norman McCulloch joined his father's firm Microfibres, Inc., founded 1926, and later directed several organizations such as Fleet National Bank, Narragansett Capital Corporation, Mt. Attitash Lift Corporation and Edgehill-Newport, Inc., also serving as Chairman of The Rhode Island Foundation. His Dartmouth offices include President of the Alumni Council, Chair of the Alumni Fund, National Chair of the 1977-82 "Campaign for Dartmouth," member of the Board of Trustees for 13 years, and Chair of the Board from 1986-88; he and his wife Dorothy endowed the Freedman Presidential Professorship in 1998 and have also endowed a chair and founded a program at Mt. Holyoke (Dartmouth College Office of Public Affairs).

The $8 million hall opened to acclaim in the fall of 2000 and included among its residents two seniors, five juniors, 55 sophomores and 18 first-year students (Jen Tutak, "Residents praise McCulloch hall," The Dartmouth [23 October 2000])

McKENZIE ca. 1931 (DAIRY)
The headquarters of B&G/FO&M bears the name of Alexander A. McKenzie, who headed B&G from 1898 to 1904 and is "believed to have been the first college officer of that kind in the country" (Widmayer 1991, 109). The building known as McKenzie is connected to the Storehouse on Crosby Street. The building was built as a pasteurization plant and was labeled = "Dairy" ("A Guide" 1943) or "Milk Ho." (Sanborn, 1944). The connection to the Shop came between 1950 and 1961.

McLANE HALL 1958-1962 ([MIDDLE] WIGWAM)
The central four-story dormitory in the River Cluster stands on the site of some of the units of Wigwam Circle, the temporary postwar family housing. Some funding for construction came from the U.S. Housing and Home Finance Administration (Widmayer 1991, 136). The building held 102 in 10 singles and 46 doubles in 1961 (Office of the Bursar), and by 1990 it held 87 in 23 singles and 32 doubles. The lounge floor accommodates dances (ORL). The College remodeled the building in 1986.

McLANE FAMILY LODGE 2000
The lodge at the Dartmouth Skiway replaces the 1956 Peter Brundage Lodge and reflects a growth in Skiway visitorship of more than 400% since the 1950s, as well as ten years of planning to replace the old structure. P. Andrews Mclane '69 was the principal donor of the building (see Sarah Rubenstein, "Alum donates $1.5 mil to skiway," The Dartmouth [30 March 1999]). The project cost $3.5 million in total and includes a redesigned parking lot and skier plaza. (Jen Tutak, "Skiway, rugby projects on schedule," The Dartmouth [2 August 2000]). The lodge itself encloses 16,000 sq. ft. of space and includes a 400-seat dining area; wired office space for the ski team in the Macomber room; a first-floor rental shop and ski store; a general meeting room; and a year-round function room named for longtime original Skiway Manager Howard Chizers. While the maple used in the dining-room furniture comes from the Second College Grant, the building's structural members and the paneling in the Chivers room are made from ash trees harvested from college property in Corinth, Vermont. Stuart White of Banwell Architects and Edward Levin '69 designed the lodge (Nathan Senge, "New ski lodge nears completion," The Dartmouth [23 October 2000]).

McNUTT HALL 1902-1904 (TUCK SCHOOL/HALL) (ADMISSIONS BUILDING [II])
Charles Alonzo Rich designed Tuck Hall, later named McNutt Hall, on the west side of the Green to house the Tuck School of Business Administration. The building featured a commercial museum on its blind-walled third floor. Larson remodeled the building to its current appearance, adding the gabled pediment and punching windows in the third floor, in 1920. After the Tuck School moved to its current home on Tuck Mall in 1930, Dartmouth acquired the building and renamed it McNutt Hall.

MALT HOUSE* 1772 (1829) (THE FORT)
Eleazar Wheelock had his workers build this house for malting grains for the brewing of ale in August of 1772 (Chase, 257). The building originally stood south of where Wheeler stands today. In 1784 its owner moved the building a rod or two south to a spot between Rollins and Wheeler, near the path to Richardson, directly north of the Haskell House; carpenters fitted up the building with two stories to make it into a storehouse and shops. Henry Hutchinson used the building as his law office in 1814, and in 1815 it held a tailor's shop in the second story. Later the building housed rental rooms for students, who called it "The Fort." The burned in 1829 (J.K. Lord 1928, 57).

MANCHESTER'S GARAGE* (I) after 1927 (19XX)
Jack Manchester managed the Gulf service station from 1943 through at least 1961 (Stebbins 1961, 123); he had the brick garage built on the southwest corner of Main and South Streets, occupying the site of a pre-1884 dwelling that had become a small repair shop by 1927. By 1944 the garage had a 30-car capacity (Sanborn map), and it appears in the 1964 Aegis. The station replaced the building after 1964.

MANCHESTER'S GARAGE (II) after 1964 (FOODSTOP)
Manchester's Service Station replaced its earlier garage at some time post-1964; c.1994 the building underwent a remodeling and became Foodstop.

MASONS' HALL* (I) 17XX (18XX)
The hall, possibly located on Main Street, first served the Masons in 1796. The building was likely a house or other less-permanent quarters that the society pressed into service. The St. John's Day procession of 1799 went from the Mason's Hall to Deacon Dewey's Coffee House, that is Brewster's Tavern, where the Inn is today. Over half of the 200 members who joined from 1796-1812 were Dartmouth graduates, and early members included Bezaleel and William Woodward, Eleazar Wheelock, Jr., James Wheelock, Simon Bissel, James Poole, James Freeman Dana, all under the title Franklin Lodge #6, which first met on 3 April 1796. The College Trustees voted in 1799 to eject any student who joined the Freemasons. The Lodge moved to Lebanon in 1816 (J.K. Lord 1928, 281-5).

MASSACHUSETTS HALL 1907 (MIDDLE MASSACHUSETTS)
Students also know the original and central Massachusetts Row dormitory as Mid or Middle Mass. Charles Rich designed the building, which cost $80,000 (Richardson 1932, 677). The building connects to the later North and South Massachusetts by open colonnades. Where the side entrances are today, several rooms originally stood. The building held 88 when it was new (Richardson 1932, 677); by 1961 it held 125 in 19 doubles and 29 triples (Office of the Bursar); and in 1990 the hall held 117 in 2 singles, 17 doubles and 27 triples (ORL). Massachusetts Hall became a barracks in 1918 (R.N. Hill, 241) and operated as the ship "U.S.S. Massachusetts" when it became one of ten Navy V-12 dormitories during W.W.II (Navy at Dartmouth, 1944). The College remodeled the building between 1928 and 1930, and made it fireproof in 1960 (Office of the Bursar), adding the basement kitchen and lounge in the 1980s. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop '37 lived in room 310 during his first year, and Cincinnatti Bengals football coach Dave Shula '81 lived in room 107 his first year (Jacob).

MASSACHUSETTS ROW around 1907 (MASS ROW)
The College reserved this street, which it owns, for pedestrians c.1995. The buildings of Massachusetts Row, as well as Thayer Dining Hall and Hitchcock Hall, face the street as it runs West Wheelock Street to Tuck Mall; the name of the street as it continues with brick paving to Webster Avenue is less certain. Most of the street seems to date to c.1907, and a pedestrian component has always been part of its planning.

MAXWELL HALL 1982 (ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA HALL) (HILLEL HOUSE [I])
The College runs these student apartments on the far west edge of the campus, adjacent to Channing Cox and administratively considered a part of the River Cluster (ORL). The complex held 68 in singles in 1990, and each apartment has a living room, bathroom, kitchen and four bedrooms. In 1990 the building housed Hillel, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and the Max Kade German Center (ORL). The building contains racquetball courts, a 1994 climbing gym and a sun deck. The College remodeled the building in 1982 (Facilities).

MAYNARD STREET 1892 (HOSPITAL STREET)
The Town opened Maynard Street, originally Hospital Street, between Main and College Streets to afford access to the M.H.M.H. as it was rising. The hospital opened in May of 1893 (J.K. Lord 1928, 52). Mary Maynard Hitchcock, namesake of the hospital, also provided the name for the street (Morrison, 57).

MAYNARD STREET DORMITORY ca. 2004-2005 The dormitory will stand north of Maynard Street, on a portion of the site of the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital . Lo-Yi Chan's 2000 master plan depicts three buildings at the west end of Maynard, any one or all of which represent this dormitory. The dormitory is an outgrowth of the January 2000 call of the Student Life Initiative for changes to residential life and more on-campus housing; as well as ongoing "decompression" of existing rooms requires new living space. The dormitory will have double and single rooms, a lounge and kitchen on each level, and a central community space (Gomstyn). Along with the new Tuck Mall dormitory, the building will house 500-600 students ("SLI Update"). The school named the cluster for the late former president David McLaughlin during 2004.

MAYNARD STREET DINING HALL ca. 2004-2005 (GRADUATE STUDENT CENTER) The building appears in Chan's 2000 master plan on a part of the old hospital property north of Mayard Street, directly north of Sudikoff Hall. The building will house social and dining functions, including offices, dining spaces, classrooms and a large space for functions. The Trustees approved the building by summer 2001, though at the time an architect had not been selected. The Graduate Studies Office also intends to supply graduate students with their own social space in the building. the first time graduate students will have a dedicated social center ("SLI Update"). The school named the cluster for the late former president David McLaughlin during 2004.

MEDICAL SCHOOL BUILDING* (a) 1811 (1963) (NEW MEDICAL HOUSE)
One of the most important buildings of the College in its first half-century was Dr. Nathan Smith's 1811 Medical School, which stood north of Wilder Hall, where the Fairchild Center is today. Eleazar Wheelock, Jr. had laid out a street three rods wide that ran up the hill across from 46 College Street as a housing venture. Before 1790 only Benjamin Chase bought one half-lot, which he later sold to Dr. Nathan Smith. Smith had the State of New Hampshire give the adjacent half-lot as well as $3450 to build the Medical Building in 1811. The building overran its alloted expense, totaling $4667 (Richardson 1932, 231). It was Dartmouth's first brick building and stood three stories high, with a central pedimented pavilion of two high stories that the lecture halls presumably occupied. An early engraving appears in R.N. Hill, 125. The Medical School had occupied rooms in Dartmouth Hall since soon after Dr. Smith founded it in 1797, and it would occupy this building for a century and a half, until moving to its 1960s campus up College Street adjacent the hospital. The building held classrooms, offices and laboratories. The College remodeled the building in 1872-3 in order to install the Stoughton Museum; at this time the building gained a sort of squat central tower which carried a four-sided iron-and-glass cupola. The College also added a new dissecting room in 1895 at a cost of $1700 (Richardson 1932, 735). When the College demolished the building in 1963 (Graham 1991, 183) it was the oldest building at the College and probably the nation's oldest medical school building still in use. The building's spiral staircase now stands in the Dean's Conference Room in Remsen (Graham 1991, 183). The front facade of the building still appears in the Medical School shield.

MEMORIAL FIELD 1921-1923 (ATHLETIC FIELD [III])
Larson & Wells designed the field and concrete west stands as an improvement of the old Alumni Oval; the original 1893 Grandstand had burned earlier. A 1913 design for a grandstand on the site by Lockwood, Greene & Co. was not built. Alumni donations in memory of the 112 Dartmouth men who died in W.W.I largely funded the project (Widmayer 1977, 150). The school dedicated the field 3 November 1923 with a 32-7 loss to Cornell (DeGange, 28). The main stands bear a screen of brick on the Crosby Street side, divided into two levels of arches as a Roman aqueduct or amphitheater; the full-height entrance arch projects slightly. The project also included the road that and fence that run behind the Gymnasium. Wooden bleachers originally formed the east stands, now recent metal bleachers. The Clinton Commencement took place here in 1995. The Class of 1966 gave the new scoreboard in 1995. The stadium holds around 20,000 spectators.

MONTGOMERY HOUSE 1925 (AMES HOUSE)
Aldebert Ames, Jr. had Larson & Wells design this house at 12 Rope Ferry Road, which cost 42 cents per cubic foot to build (American Architect, 11 March 1925). The College now owns the house and offers it to visiting Montgomery Fellows.

MOORE HALL 1996-1998
Robert A.M. Stern's firm designed the psychology department building at the northwest corner of the Ravine Mall, and the building forms half of the proposed gateway. Formerly the department had been split between Silsby and Gerry Halls. Part of the funds for the building were donated by Florence Moore, who died in 1993, in honor of her husband Lansing Moore '37, who died in 1990. Lansing Moore only spent one semester at Dartmouth before withdrawing in 1933 during the Depression, but he was later president of the Dartmouth Club of Long Island (The Dartmouth, 10 October 1996).

-MOOR'S CHARITY SCHOOL (I) 1755
Eleazar Wheelock began a school for Native American children in 1754 in his home in Lebanon Crank, now Columbia, Ct. In 1755 Joshua Moor or More funded the project in a more formal way that Wheelock called Moor's Indian Charity School. Wheelock would found Dartmouth with funds he asked others to raise to relocate this school farther north; the school would also continue to operate at a new location facing the Dartmouth Green into the 1830s. The original schoolhouse in Connecticut once stood two stories high, with the pupils living in the upper floor (Richardson 1932, 34), though today it has only one story. Among other changes, the building also strikes one as not being in its original location. Today the building is a white clapboard hall containing essentially one large room, entered through a deep-set door in the narrow end framed by four pilasters. The building is three widely-spaced windows long. To the right of the entrance is a plaque sent by Dartmouth on its Bicentennial; a tablet commemorating Samson Occom also faces the entrance. A tombstone-like monument in front of the church next door bears an Indian head and reads "In 1755 Eleazar Wheelock, D.D/ Minister at Lebanon Crank/ (now Columbia)/ founded near this spot/ Moor's Indian Charity School/ in 1769/ the school was removed to/ Hanover, N.H./ From this beginning arose/ Dartmouth College/ Eleazar Wheelock, president 1769-1779/ Erected by the Connecticut Society of the Colonial Dames of America 1949." In front of the stone is a pole with a sign reading "Moor's Charity School for Indians kept here 1754-1770 by Eleazar Wheelock."

-MOOSILAUKE RAVINE LODGE 1938-39 (MOOSILAUKE RAVINE CAMP)
Ross McKenney and crews of students and local men built this log lodge below Mt. Moosilauke, near Warren, N.H. Ralph D. Butterfield '30 was the designer. Some of the logs measure 33 inches around and 60 feet long. McKenney's crew constructed the building without power tools other than a cement mixer; the Lodge is the largest log building in New Hampshire. The building first took the name of Moosilauke Ravine Camp but the Outing Club renamed it the Lodge in 1949. The building inherits some of the functions that Summit House or Prospect House on the mountain had fulfilled--the D.O.C. was given that building in 1920 but lost it to lightning in 1942 (Hooke, 191). The Dartmouth Outing Club continues to run the Lodge, and the 1920s Doc Benton Story has been a staple here since 1947 (Hooke, 152).

-MORTON FARM 1XXX
The farm encompasses 174 acres (Graham 1991, 238) and is six miles northeast of Hanover in Etna. Bill Morton '32 donated the farm to the College, and it now houses the Dartmouth Riding Center.

MORTON HALL 1985-1987
The dormitory stands on the site of 15 East Wheelock Street and is connected to Zimmerman in the New Dorm/East Wheelock Cluster, the newest dormitories on campus. Post-modern in style, Morton uses suite configurations and is sponsored by the class of 1943. The cluster contains an Area Director apartment (ORL) originally designated a Faculty Master Apartment. This is the odd dorm among the three and held 69 in 39 singles and 15 doubles in 1990 (ORL). The cluster is generally modeled on the houses at Harvard and the residential colleges at Yale and was designed by Herbert S. Newman Associates (Pearson).

MURDOUGH CENTER 1973
Campbell, Aldrich and Nulty designed this Modernist brick structure at the west end of Tuck Mall. The center cost $4.7 million and bears the names of Thomas G. Murdough '26 and Grace Murdough (From Dartmouth, Summer 1973, 5). The building has five levels, two of which are below ground, and it connects the Tuck and Thayer Schools. Cook Auditorium fills the center of the building and seats 358; the joint library of Tuck and Thayer fills the upper levels. The building also houses offices and other functions (From Dartmouth, 1972, 3).


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NATIVE AMERICANS AT DARTMOUTH HOUSE (II) 1852 (SMITH'S BAKERY) (LAMBDA CHI ALPHA HOUSE) (PI LAMBDA PHI HOUSE) (OCCOM INN)
E.K. Smith, who bought a bakery business from T.J. Emmons, had this house built at 35 North Main Street as a bakery and confectionery to manufacture Hanover Crackers and Dartmouth Chocolates. Smith also built the next two buildings to the south, the Theta Chi House [I] and the Phi Sigma Kappa House, both now demolished (J.K. Lord 1928, 34). The Smith Cracker and Candy Company sold the house and moved to a new White River factory in 1871 (Hartford History). J.V. Hazen owned the building by 1905, when E.L. Gulick and W.B. Woodbury occupied it. The 1912 Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity owned the house by 1928 (Richardson 1932, 796), but that organization folded in 1931 (Baird's). By 1950 the Pi Lambda Theta Fraternity owned the house, and it was again in private hands by 1961. The building later became the Occom Inn, which the College bought in 1993 when it was probably the last business north of Wheelock Street. The College renovated the building in 1994 and 1995 for the Native American students' organization, adding an accessible entrance in an ell to the south. The most notable element missing from the original building is the porch that protected the front entrance.

NEW HAMPSHIRE HALL 1908
The College built the dormitory on East Wheelock Street to hold 107 students (Richardson 1932, 677), and in 1961 it still held that many in 9 singles, 46 doubles and 2 triples (Office of the Bursar). By 1990 the building held 126 in 11 singles, 25 doubles, 19 triples and 2 quads. Charles Rich designed the building, which cost $80,000 to build (Richardson 1932, 677). New Hamp became a barracks in 1918 (R.N. Hill, 241). The College remodeled the building in 1928-30 and again in 1986, when builders added the one-story kitchen extension to the rear. The hall was one of ten Navy V-12 dormitories during the Second World War and operated as the ship "U.S.S. New Hampshire" (Navy at Dartmouth 1944, 8). Cincinnatti Bengals footballer Reggie Williams '76 spent his first year in room 211 (Jacob). The Class of 1947 supports the building, which the Office of Residential Life administers in a cluster with Topliff (ORL).

NORTH FAYERWEATHER HALL 1906-1907
Charles Rich designed the four-story dormitory north of and now connected to Fayerweather Hall, which cost $30,530 (Richardson 1932, 677). The building stands on or near the site of the well of Princeton House (J.K. Lord 1928, 58). The hall held 56 students in 1961 in 6 singles 4 doubles, 12 triples, and the College's lone sextuple, along with a first floor lounge (Office of the Bursar). The same number occupied the hall in 1990 with the division of the sextuple into two tripes (ORL). A fire damaged the building in 1908 (J.K. Lord 1913, 488). The hall became a barracks in 1918 (R.N. Hill, 241). The College remodeled the building between 1928-30 and remodeled it "completely" in 1959-60 (R.N. Hill); the College also connected it by a semi-subterranean passage to Fayerweather in 1984-5 (ORL). North Fayerweather lacks five rooms on the ground floor that South Fayerweather possesses. The building has separate bathrooms while the later South Fayerweather has sinks and toilets in the rooms. The Class of 1961 sponsors the building.

NORTH HALL 1922-1923 (CLARK SCHOOL DORMITORY)
The Clark Preparatory School built the white clapboard dormitory on Choate Road, which the College acquired in 1953 (Office of the Bursar). The school might have remodeled the building in 1936 (Facilities). In 1961 the building housed 22 in singles (Office of the Bursar), and it held the same number in 1990. Women first occupied the hall in 1988 (ORL). The name would seem to date to the Clark era, since the building stood adjacent the now-demolished East Hall.

NORTH MAIN STREET by 1775 (FACULTY AVENUE)
The street runs northward from the corner of South Main Street and Wheelock Street to Rope Ferry Road. This street probably existed even when Main Street ran diagonally across the Green; early on it was known as Faculty Row (Morrison, 54) for the houses on its west side.

NORTH MASSACHUSETTS HALL 1912
Charles Rich designed the dormitory, which connects to Middle Massachusetts. The hall held 75 in 18 singles, 18 doubles and 7 triples in 1961 (Office of the Bursar), while in 1990 it held six fewer in 25 singles, 11 doubles, 6 triples and 1 quad. The dormitory became a barracks in 1918 (R.N. Hill, 241) and operated as the ship "U.S.S. North Massachusetts" as one of ten Navy V-12 dormitories during W.W.II (Navy at Dartmouth, 1944). Congressman Paul Tsongas '62 spent his first year in room 301 (Jacob). The building housed only women from 1973 (From Dartmouth, Summer 1973, 18) to 1988 (ORL). The building is similar to South Massachusetts, except that it has five basement rooms that the other lacks.

NUGGET THEATER* (I) 1916 (1944)
The theater stood between C&G and the Wheelock Mansion House, though it was set back from the street. The building's east side once ended what is now Old Nugget Alley. The theater's walls were originally of galvanized tin and its seats of wood and iron bolted to the cement floor. F.W. Davison established the Nugget upon the suggestion of Bill Cunningham '19 (R.N. Hill, 252). The building burned in 1944 and screenings took place in Webster Hall from then until the new Hanover Improvement Society built the new Nugget in 1951 (Stebbins 1961, 123). Remnants of the building survive in the restaurant 5 Olde Nugget Alley at the rear of the site.

NUGGET THEATER* (III) 1951
The Hanover Improvement Society built the theater on the sites of two wooden houses on the west side of Main Street. The building replacemed the Nugget that had burned in 1944 (Stebbins 1961, 123). Bill Cunningham '19 played piano to a silent Chapman film to open the theater as he had in 1916 for the opening of the original Nugget (Widmayer 1991, 69).


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OCCOM POND 1900 (OCCUM POND)
Professor Thomas W.D. Worthen, who built the now-Sigma Phi Epsilon House, and Mr. C.P. Chase created the Pond (J.K. Lord 1928, 69). The land was a marshy part of Phineas Clement's cow pasture called Clement's Swamp (Morrison, 66). The D.O.C. House stands at the north end of the Pond.

OCCOM RIDGE HOUSES 1899 (HONEYMOON RIDGE) (FACULTY HOUSING)
E.H. Carleton's 1887 house was the first on the Ridge and stands at the end of Clement Road: the College built the six houses north of it, numbered 14-29, in 1899 (J.K. Lord 1928, 68). Louis Sheldon Newton of Hartford, Vermont designed the six houses the College built ("New Houses on Occum Ridge," The Dartmouth 21 [9 March 1900]: 345). College officers bought the houses (Bugbee), which provided housing for those whom the construction of the Quadrangle north of the Green displaced (Patrick 153, citing 27 May 1899 Report to the Trustees). A driveway serves the houses from behind.

OCCOM RIDGE c.1899.
The College opened the road for faculty housing following the plans of members of the Olmsted Brothers landscape architecture firm. The road runs north from Webster Avenue to a junction with Clement Road and continues between the Ridge and Occom Pond. The ridge bears the name of Samson Occom. The College widened and extended the road in 1900 (Morrison, 57).

OIL BUNKER c. 1993
Two tanks just east of Clement store the heating oil that the Heating Plant burns. The bunker stands on the northern parts of two lots which had houses on them for over 100 years, numbers 22 and 24 Lebanon Street. The College removed both buildings after 1950. Directly south of the bunker was the next house on the street, number 24 1/2, which dates to after 1928 and the College seems to have removed after 1991.

OLD COLLEGE* 1770-1771 (1791) (LIBRARY [II]) (COMMONS [I]) (CHAPEL [I]) (THE COLLEGE [I])
Eleazar Wheelock arrived to begin his school on the Hanover Plain in August of 1770, and soon built this temporary two-story building to house the College and the work of the 1754 Academy or Charity School he brough from Connecticut. Wheelock writes in his A plain and faithfull Narrative (1771):

With 30,40, and sometimes 50 labourers, appointed to their respective departments, I betook myself to a campaign. I set some to digging a well, and others to build a house for myself and family, of 40 by 32 feet, and one story high, and others to build a house for my students of 80 by 32, and two stories high.     (Wheelock, in Brown, 16)

This first location where Wheelock planned the building was behind Russel Sage Hall, where the stone marker locates the site of the contemporary Log Hut. Wheelock soon had to move his hut and house, later the College Hall, to the southeast corner of the Green. There his workers built the Old College, on a north-south axis facing east. The larger of the two original College buildings, it had 18 rooms including a kitchen, with an "academy" and sleeping quarters for students on the ground floor (R.N. Hill, 34). A one-room library also occupied the second floor. Each pair of rooms had its own staircase, and the building used an English or separate-entry layout similar to that of Oxford and Cambridge as well as early American colleges (Turner, 67), see plan (Chase, 223). The College held the Commons until that function moved to the College Hall in 1774 and workers divided the building into 20 equal rooms. At first the exterior of the building was left unfinished, though the College could eventually afford to paint it a reddish-brown in 1779 (Chase, 222). The weather and frost heaves treated the building badly, and the College sold and dismantled or burned it when workers had finished Dartmouth Hall (Chase, 584). Workers constructing Moor Hall might have reused parts of the building (Chase, 585), or at least the proceeds from the sale (Richardson 1932, 214). What foundations survived the various gradings of the Green, the 1993 construction of the Steam Tunnel surely disrupted. See also the College Hall (I).

OLD NUGGET ALLEYc.1916 and earlier
The alley runs westward from South Main Street, between the Davison Block and the Casque & Gauntlet House. Between 1916 and 1944 the alley accessed the Nugget Theater, which stood back from Wheelock Street where the Banwell Building now stands on stilts. The roadway was likely an access route to the outbuildings of the Alden nee Casque & Gauntlet House in the 1820s.

OLD PSYCHIATRY* after 1944 (c.1991)
The hospital building connected Mental Health, now Sudikoff, to Raven House to the west. The building does not appear on 1944 Sanborn maps. The College bought the building along with the Hospital c.1989 and demolished it not long after.

ORGANIC FARM 19XX
The Fullington Farm, North of Hanover on the River, hosts the College's Organic Farm program.


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PANARCHY HOUSE 1835 (STEPHEN BROWN HOUSE) (PHI KAPPA PSI HOUSE [II]) (PHI SIGMA PSI HOUSE)
Stephen Brown had the house built at 9 School Street in 1835. The surviving quadristyle Doric temple front and roof cupola are original features. The property preserves something of the character of an estate, maintaining an empty lot to the north. Before Brown, Aaron Wright, a tailor, owned the lot. After Brown, the building was home to Professor O.P. Hubbard, the Rev. Dr. John Richards, the Rev. Henry Wood by 1855, Deacon B. W. Hale, Freeman Bibby, Professor John H. Wright, and Dr. William Smith by 1905. Smith is listed in city directories of 1907 as having a coachman and domestic servant living on the property as well. The Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity bought the house from Smith's estate early in the century. The fraternity had begun as the 1895 Beta Psi, located in the Davison Block, and became a chapter of the national Phi Kappa Psi in 1896 (R.N. Hill, 234). The fraternity built the large addition on the north side of the house during the 1920s. Phi Kappa Psi became the local Phi Sigma Psi in 1967 (Baird's), later changed into a co-educational group, and later became the first Undergraduate Society c.1992 under the name Panarchy.

PARK STREET by 1870
The street appeared on maps in 1870 and bears the name of the College Park (Morrison, 58).

PARKER APARTMENT ca. 1921
The building, originally faculty apartments, stands at 2 North Park Street and presumably was designed by Larson & Wells.

PARKER HOUSE 1917
The traditional two-story white clapboard house stands in the Ravine south of Raven House. Dr. George H. Parker originally had the house built at 50 College Street in 1917 (J.K. Lord 1928, 56). Parker owned the building in 1928, with Mrs. G.H. Parker listed in 1931. The Hospital moved the house across Maynard Street to provide more room for parking lots. By the early 1990s the College was using the building for offices and contemplating demolishing it for the new Ravine Quadrangle.

PARKHURST HALL 1911 ([PARKHURST] ADMINISTRATION BUILDING)
Charles Rich designed the administration building that Trustee Lewis Parkhurst and his wife donated in memory of their son, who had died at school. The building faces North Main Street and stands on the site of Hubbard Hall and the Shurtleff-Brown House, which the College demolished to construct this building. The former two-story space at the rear of the second floor was a large faculty room that followed loosely the House of Commons: "it is enough to say that it is admired by all who see it" (Emerson). The plaque outside the front door originally hung opposite the entrance on the stair landing (Emerson). The painting that now occupies that space is a photoreproduction of the Wheelock Portrait now in the Hood Museum. The College remodeled the building in 1924 (Larson), possibly including the rear addition of several feet that the change in brick color makes apparent. Perhaps the growing faculty needed more meeting space. In 1951 the College shuffled all of the offices in the building except the Registrar's (Widmayer 1991, 69), though the building still houses the President's Office, the Bursar, etc.

PARKING GARAGE* 1972 (1996)
The six-story garage stood in Dewey Field northwest of the Medical School and contained space for 490 cars (From Dartmouth 1972, 3). The College no longer needed the space after it purchased the Hospital c.1989 and the Hospital completed its move in the early 1990s.

PARKSIDE APARTMENT 1912
Howard Major, the chief draftsman for College architect Charles Rich's firm and later a society architect on Long Island and in Florida, designed this white clapboard apartment. The building stands at 17 East Wheelock Street between Morton Hall and the similar but later faculty apartment Ledyard. Behind the building is the College Park.

JOHN PAYNE TAVERN/INN* 1772 (c.1830s)
Deacon John Payne had his inn built facing College street just north of today's Wheeler Hall. He had bought the land bought in 1772 from B. Woodward. As a tavern, the establishment caused great problems for Wheelock and his school and a great animosity developed between Wheelock and Payne. Captain Stephen Kimball bought the property in 1796, later selling the south part of the plot and the house to the blacksmiths Luke Dewey and Calvin Eaton in 1804. Eaton dropped out of the partnership at some time and Dewey abandoned the building by 1832 (J.K. Lord 1928, 59).

PEST HOUSE* (I) by 1777 (1XXX)
The quarantine house stood eight miles from the College in the Lebanon Woods between Hanover and Lebanon. Wheelock condemned the building as being cold and wet during a smallpox epidemic, which is why his family did not use it (Chase, 532).

PHI DELTA ALPHA HOUSE 1902 (PHI DELTA THETA HOUSE [III])
The 1884 Phi Delta Theta Fraternity (R.N. Hill, 234) built the house at 5 Webster Avenue (J.K. Lord 1928, 68), the first fraternity on Webster Avenue and the beginning of a general movement of fraternities to that street that would not pick up speed until the 1920s. The house, opened in 1902 (The Dartmouth 23 [28 March 1902]:423) was designed by College architect Charles Alonzo Rich ("Building Intelligence," The American Architect and Building News 70,no. 1298 (10 November 1900), x). The house caused concern among Trustees, who voted in 1902 to limit houses to 14 beds and to forbid dining facilities (Richardson 1932, 732). The organization became the local Phi Delta Alpha in 1960 (R.N. Hill, 234).

PHI GAMMA DELTA HOUSE* (II) c.1840 (1936)
Mrs. A.A. Brewster had the house built as a residence for her son at 10 West Wheelock Street, the corner of Wheelock and School Streets. The house combined a barn and an old house that workers moved there from the other side of School Street. After her son, Mrs. Brewster lived in the house (J.K. Lord 1928, 121). The Episcopal Church used the building around 1850, with the Rev. Dr. John Richards the first occupant after Mrs. Brewster died, followed by Professor C.A. Aiken, the dentist Dr. James Newon. The columns from the Graves Store, which stood south of C&G, ennobled the front of the house after the store was demolished in 1903 (J.K. Lord 1928, 32). H.A. Stimson occupied the building in 1905. Ex-President S.C. Bartlett was the last private owner of the house, through whose heirs it passed in 1907 to the 1901 Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity (J.K. Lord 1928, 65) (Richardson 1932, 732). That organization moved from a hall in the Davison Block. The fraternity demolished the house in 1936 (Barrett, 17) and replaced with the Phi Gamma Delta House (III), now the Sigma Delta House.

PHI KAPPA SIGMA HOUSE* (I) c.1840 (c.1935) (GAMMA DELTA EPSILON HOUSE)
Joseph L. Dewey had the house built (J.K. Lord 1928, 50) at 30 North Main Street, where the Gamma Delta Chi House stands today. Dewey also built the Sigma Nu House (III) on the opposite side of the street, now also demolished. T. Dewey owned the house by 1855. The College owned the house and rented it to C.F. Emerson by 1905. By 1912 the local 1908 Gamma Delta Epsilon owned the building, and by 1931 the 1929 Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity owned it. That organization later merged with the 1919 Alpha Chi Rho (R.N. Hill, 234) to become the local Gamma Delta Chi in 1935 (Baird's). The organization replaced the building with the current Gamma Delta Chi House c.1936.

PHI SIGMA KAPPA HOUSE* (II) 1868 (1925)
The confectioner E. K. Smith had this house built for his son George and later occupied it himself. The building stood near the middle part of its lot and set back from the street at 29 North Main Street, south of today's Alpha Theta House. Smith also built the Theta Chi House (I) where Alpha Theta is today, and the Native Americans at Dartmouth House (II) to the north of it. G. Campbell rented the house by 1905, when the Smith Estate appears as the owner. The house went to the 1905 Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity (Baird's) by c.1910 (Aegis 1912. The organization demolished the building and built a new house on the site in 1925 (J.K. Lord 1928, 52). The organization later became Phi Tau.

PHI TAU HOUSE* 1927-1928 (PHI SIGMA KAPPA HOUSE [III])
The 1905 Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity built the house to replace their original house, a frame dwelling that the society purchased. Barrett notes that the organization built the house at 31 North Main St., adjacent the old one, and demolished the predecessor when it finished the new building. On other maps the building appers at 29 North Main Street. The building stood perpendicular to the street and a short distance back from the street line; this house was closer to the north lot line than its predecessor. A drawing of 10/26/21 by D.W. Redfield, architect of New York City, shows the building essentially as it was built (Box DC Hist Iconong 456 proposed buildings never built, Folder "Fraternities, Secret Societies"). The society's website gives the construction date as 1927-1928 ("Phi Tau Coeducational Fraternity"). The organization became Phi Tau Fraternity in 1956 (R.N. Hill, 234) and went coeducational in the 1970s.

PIKE HOUSE 1874 (EPSILON KAPPA PHI HOUSE) (DELTA UPSILON HOUSE [I]) (LATINO HOUSE)
Mrs. A. A. Pike had the house built at 36 North Main Street. The building later bore the numbers 38 in 1893, 1905 and 1931. Mrs. Pike rented the house out as a Nurses' Home beginning in 1906, and the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital Nurses' School purchased the building in 1911 (Land, 21). The building continued as a dormitory until the 1920s; it housed the 1920 Epsilon Kappa Phi Fraternity in the 1920s as well. That organization later evolved into the Delta Upsilon Fraternity in 1926 (R.N. Hill, 234). Workers remodeled the house extensively in 1963 (Barrett, 91). The College currently owns the house and in the 1990s devoted it to Public Affairs, including the Alumni Magazine. The building became the home of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (the "Latino House") beginning in 1999. Today the white clapboard, side-gabled house stands two stories high, with a single chimney at each gable end. A major rear addition of 2000-2001 provides more space, allowing the building to house a visiting professor or graduate student in addition to about fourteen students (Stebbins 2001).

PINE PARK 1900
A group of citizens purchased the park along the river to save it from logging in 1900, and incorporated as the Pine Park Association in 1905 (J.K. Lord 1928, 72).

POST OFFICE 1931
The Post Office on Main Street occupies the site of the E.P. Storrs House. W.H. Trumbull constructed the building, which opened in April of 1931 (Barrett, 36). The later southern expansion occupies the site of the Wainwright House at 60 South Main Street.

POTASH HOUSE* 1774 (18XX)
Eleazar Wheelock had the house built for Comfort Sever, owner of the Comfort Sever House and carpenter on Dartmouth Hall. The house stood near the little brook south of what is now Lebanon Street, Chase supposes (Chase, 263).

-POTTERY STUDIO 18XX
The brick house in Lewiston, Vt. stands opposite the Boathouse. The building appears on a map of 1905. The College used the building as pottery studio for its kilns by 1984.

PRECINCT BUILDING (II) 1928
Hanover's municipal building stands on Main Street, originally both a firehouse and municipal building. Larson & Wells designed the building, which cost $50,611.09 (Barrett, 34).

PRESIDENT'S HOUSE (V) 1926
The President's House stands west of the Sigma Nu House at 14 Webster Avenue, numbered 12 on a 1928 map. According to Widmayer the building has the official address of #1 Tuck Drive (Widmayer 1977, 119). Edward Tuck, 1862 donated the funds for the house, which Peabody, Wilson, and Brown designed (Studio Art 67). The building cost $133,000 (Richardson 1932). Two alternate locations for the house suggested themselves to planners: the Dewey Farm where the Old Medical School is today, then unsuitable because the Sisters Dewey were not fond of the College; and Observatory Hill, which had too much traffic and too little privacy (Widmayer 1977, 117). The College soon regretted the siting on Webster Avenue. The College added a garage by 1931 and remodeled the house in 1982 (Facilities). Presidents Hopkins, Dickey, Kemeny, McLaughlin, Freedman, and Wright have lived in the house.

PRINCETON HOUSE* ca. 1784 (1830) (THE ACROPOLIS) (COMMONS [IV])
Eleazar Wheelock, Jr. had the house built for him on the crest of the ridge directly east of the present Rollins Chapel, which was at the east end of the parcel that his father had given him. The house was of considerable size, "a large, rambling, one-story affair, built in the form of a letter H, the recesses being filled up later" (J.K. Lord 1928, 58). This was the second house that the younger Eleazar built on this parcel: the first one was the Haskell House by the street, which Wheelock sold in 1783. Wheelock conveyed the lot on which the Chapel sits to Colonel Aaron Kinsman in 1790, see Commons Hall (II). At the time Wheelock also named a lane from his house on the Ridge to the Green that would be open as a common pass way forever, which Kimball and Rowley later built along. Eleazar "engaged in trade but was unfortunate" and in 1795 his lands and house came into the hands of Ebenezer Woodward. Woodward moved into the house and kept it as a store and boarding house, using the building as a student Commns in 1805-7 before the College reopened Kinsman Commons down the lane (Chase, 554). Woodward sold the building to President John Wheelock, another son of the elder Eleazar. The Trustees removed Wheelock from the Presidency in the University Controversy, leading to the Dartmouth College Case, and thus Wheelock left his house and other property to the University with remainder to Princeton Theological Seminary to spite the College. President Brown of the College, however, lived in the house in 1816 and 1817.

Students nicknamed the house "The Acropolis" because of its siting, and it appeared that way in a 1828-9 College Catalog. Mrs. Martha Porter, sister of Mills Olcott, and her children later occupied the house. A romantic description by Mrs. Porter's daughter appears in Lord's history (J.K. Lord 1928, 58). The building fell into disgrace and dilapidation, with students and then poorer tenants occupying it. The building burned in 1830. The College bought its site in 1847. The construction of of North Fayerweather in 1907 finally obliterated the house's old well, which had remained covered by a flat stone (J.K. Lord 1928, 58).

PROCTOR HOUSE* 1810 (1911)
Professor Ebenezer Adams had the house built on North Main Street on the site of Asa Holden's 1785 grant; in fact the house took up the old c.1795 gambrel-roofed Holden House as an ell. Holden had kept a "medicine shop'" in 1790, later a European wares shop and "vendue office" open Thursdays at 2 for auction sales. The son-in-law of Adams, Professor Ira Young, lived in the house, as did Young's widow and his daughter, Mrs. J.C. Proctor. In 1902 the College bought the house and moved it back from the street to make way for Tuck Hall (J.K. Lord 1928, 48) Trees prevented the College from moving the house forward, so the house went to the future site of South Massachusetts Hall (J.M. Lord, 100) The house was a dormitory in 1905 (J.K. Lord 1928, 30) and the College demolished the building to build the 1912 South Massachusetts Hall.

PROSPECT STREET 1877
Allen Lane was extended west and then south from School to Maple Streets; the north-south portion of the street was later renamed Prospect Street (Morrison, 56).

PSI UPSILON HOUSE (III) 1908
The 1841 Psi Upsilon Fraternity built the house at 7 West Wheelock Street on an empty lot (The Dartmouth 29:567) (Richardson 1932, 496). The organization had previously used a hall in the Tontine Block and the Carter Block. The lot approximates the location of ahatter's shop that Asa Huntington kept as early as 1774 (J.K. Lord 1928, 65). The fraternity added the ell extending to the east at some time after building the house; the fraternity added the front balcony and staircase after 1963.

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