QUADRANGLE* (a) 1771 (1789)
"An incipient quadrangle" (Chase, 223) formed on the southeast corner of the Green beginning in 1771. College Hall on the north and the perpendicular Old College on the east framed an area of more than 70 by 80 feet. The original buildings of the College did not not last two decades.
QUADRANGLE* (b) 1791 (1826)
The original Dartmouth Hall formed the backdrop for a cluster of buildings that promised to form a quadrangle at the end of the eighteenth century. To the north was Kinsman Commons and to the south was the Chapel, both of which stood closer to College Street than their successors, Wentworth and Thornton Halls. Those buildings stood more in the fashion of the Old Row at Yale (Turner), thus losing the enclosure in the area that came to be called the College Yard. Reed Hall in 1839 began to return some of the quadrangularity to the Yard, though on a larger scale.
THE QUADRANGLE* (c) 1866 (c.1952)
The Bissell Gymnasium and the Hanover Inn defined a green area between them at the south end of the Green that students called the Quadrangle. For a time at the turn of the century the Quadrangle held a wooden running track with banked corners, visible in the 1906 W.T. Littig print. The Inn extension of 1923 presumably encroached on the space, which lost its coherence when the College demolished Bissell Hall in 1952. The Hopkins Center now occupies the rear of the site. The Inn Gardens also occupied part of this area (Barrett, 70).
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RAVEN HOUSE after 1944 (WINIFRED RAVEN CONVALESCENT HOME)
The Hospital built the long two-story brick building on the south side of Maynard Street with its gable end to the street. The building does not appear on the 1944 Sanborn map. Raven adjoined Fowler, adjacent to the west, by an open colonnade while that building stood. The College purchased the building along with the other Hospital property in 1989 and devoted it to computing administration, intending to demolish it and place the Mathematics Building on its site.
RAVINE QUADRANGLE 1998-
Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates Architects proposed an outdoor space they termed a quadrangle to occupy the interior of the Elm-Maynard block when the College purchased much of that property from the Hospital in the late 1980s. By 1994 the firm had selected the quadrangle from several differently-shaped spaces, including a semi-serious proposal for a duck pond. The ravine quadrangle is intended to link the Berry Library addition to Baker Library to Maynard Street and points north; the 1998-99 Moore Hall and its complement Kemeny Hall will form the gateway to the quad from the opposite end. This depression, slated to receive fill since an idea for an underground parking garage failed to pan out, will in the short term be a relatively-undefined green strip. In the long term the V.S.B.A. plan for a narrow "millyard" surrounded by four- and five-story buildings is not a given.
REED HALL 1839-1840 (LIBRARY [V])
The College built Reed Hall as an academic building on the site of the Wheelock Mansion House, which its owner moved west to West Wheelock Street. The hall's namesake is William Reed of Marblehead, Ma., a Trustee from 1834 to 1837 (Emerson 1900). Ammi B. Young, who had designed Wentworth and Thornton, designed Reed Hall. Young's brother Dyer Young was the contractor and their brother Professor Ira Young was the supervisor of construction (Graham 1991, 27). Reed is the most Classically refined building on Dartmouth Row and is the only one with Greek Revival corner pilasters. The building was numbered 21 College Street in 1893.
The libraries of the College moved from Dartmouth Hall into the new building, with the literary societies occupying the western half of the second floor and the College the eastern half, all arranged in alcoves. The College stacks generally remained closed (Smith, 161). The libraries remained there until Wilson Hall opened in 1885. The College painted the hall in 1851 (J.K. Lord 1913, 285) and whitewashed it in 1859 (Richardson 1932, 415). In 1876 steam heat first appeared on the campus in Reed Hall, but it did not work well and made the dormitory unpopular (Richardson 1932, 524). By 1900, students were using the second and third floors as dormitories, with the departments of Philosophy and Political Science occupying the first floor. The Philosophy Room was rather large and had a sloping floor with benches (Bartlett). The building was the site of the first medical x-ray in the U.S., which took place in 1896 (R.N. Hill, 108). Dr. Gilman Frost x-rayed Eddie McCarthy, who had fallen while skating on the River (DAM Mar. 1995, 4) (Dartmouth Life, February 1996). Jens Larson designed a complete rebuilding in 1932 that included removing the interior of the building. The College also remodeled the hall in 1984.
REMOTE STORAGE 1981
(STORAGE LIBRARY)
The library began storing infrequently-used materials here after Baker had run out of space. The building stands on Rt. 120 (Facilities).
REMSEN 1961 (MEDICAL SCIENCES BUILDING)
The Medical School began constructing Remsen in the summer of 1959 and finished 9 September 1960 (Widmayer 1991, 128). The building connects to Vail on the north and Gilman on the south. The School remodeled the building in 1964 and 1973 (Facilities). The Dean's Conference Room contains the spiral staircase from the old Medical School Building (Graham 1991, 183).
-RESERVOIR (I) 1893
Professor Fletcher directed the construction of the 720-foot dam that held back a lake of 32 acres (Richardson 1932, 676). The Hanover Water works enlarged the lake in 1914-15 by raising the dam (J.K. Lord 1928, 77).
-RESERVOIR (II) 1925
The new reservoir lies 1/4 mile above the old one.
RICHARDSON HALL 1897-1898
Charles Rich designed the first dormitory on the Terrace to form a quadrangle with Rollins and Wheeler. The building bears the name of the Hon. James B. Richardson of Boston "in recognition of the fact that he was the first Trustee nominated under the present system of Alumni representation" (Emerson 1900). The hall cost $49,013 to build (Richardson 1932, 677). The red brick of the building is interspersed with "black-heads" in the Harvard manner, and the trim is of Portland granite. One-third of the rooms have fireplaces (ORL). Richardson is "supplied somewhat beyond the other dormitories with toilet-rooms and fireplaces; it accommodates 56 students" (Emerson 1900). Richardson notes that it accommodated 50 (Richardson 1932, 677). The hall held 74 in 10 singles, 20 doubles and 8 triples in 1961 (Office of the Bursar); in 1990 the building held 72 in 6 singles, 9 doubles and 16 triples. Richardson became a barracks in 1918 (R.N. Hill, 241) and was one of only three dormitories in use during the low ebb of enrollment in 1943, along with Wheeler and Crosby House/Blunt (Widmayer 1977, 277).
The College remodeled the hall extensively between 1928 and 1930 (Facilities), with another renovation in 1987 when the College added a study and kitchen (Facilities). Room 108 on the southwest corner held Cabin & Trail members as a sort of unofficial headquarters from 1968-82 (Hooke). The hall was all-male until 1988 and is the College's oldest dormitory still used as such.
FRANCES C. RICHMOND MIDDLE SCHOOL 1924-1926
Designed by Larson & Wells, the Richmond Middle School originally was built as the town's grade school. The school was renamed for Richmond in 1971 after the Ray School on Reservoir Road was completed. The two-story end-gabled "Georgian" brick building middle school steps down on all four sides through a surrounding one-story section; the building's double-height temple front extends beyond the one-story portion toward Lebanon Street. The building occupies part of the former Granger Farm, and was the second building south of Lebanon Street after St. Denis Roman Catholic Church, also designed by Larson & Wells. A major 1954 addition added two classroom ells, and a second renovation in 1974 reflects the "open-classroom" trend (Jay Barrett, "Our Schools," Town of Hanover calendar [1998]).
RIP ROAD 19XX
The road bears the name of athletic director Harry R. Heneage, who acquired the name "Rip" as a Dartmouth athlete. Heneage was a later owner of the stone house on the road (Morrison, 58).
RIPLEY, WOODWARD AND SMITH HALLS 1930
Jens Frederick Larson designed the adjoining buildings that students call RipWoodSmith, a complex that bears the names of the first tutors of the College: Sylvanus Ripley, Bezaleel Woodward and John Smith. The buildings together cost $260,000 (Richardson 1932, 776). The Class of 1957 supports the cluster. To take them in turn: Ripley held 54 in 14 singles and 20 doubles in 1961 (Office of the Bursar) while by 1990 it held 50 in 28 singles and 11 doubles. The College remodeled the hall in 1987-1988 for the lounge, and women did not live in the building until 1989 (ORL).
Woodward, in the center, held 61 in 19 singles and 21 doubles in 1961 (Office of the Bursar). By 1990 the building housed 53 in 35 singles and 9 doubles (ORL). Woodward has a third story where others have only two. From 1973 to 1989 the hall was one of two exclusively women's dorms, along with North Massachusetts (From Dartmouth, Summer 1973, 18) (ORL). The College remodeled the building in 1987-8 for lounges, a kitchen, a multipurpose room and a study (ORL).
Smith Hall held 54 in 14 singles and 20 doubles in 1961 (Office of the Bursar), while it held 49 in 29 singles and 10 doubles in 1990 (ORL). The College added the lounge in 1987-1988. Only men lived in the building until 1989 (ORL). Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich '68 lived his first year in room 208 (Jacob).
-RIVERCREST 1958
The 30 duplex rental units stand on Lyme Road north of the Golf Course (R.N. Hill, 332). Dartmouth and MHMH together footed the cost of $600,000 because Wigwam Circle and Sachem Village were about to be razed (Widmayer 1991, 113). Those areas traditionally housed married students.
ROARING MAW 1993
The large steel grate on a concrete pad lies near the northeast corner of the Green in order to ventilate the Steam Tunnel, which runs parallel to College Street.
ROBINSON HALL 1913-1914 (THEATER [I])
Charles Alonz Rich designed Robinson Hall to stand on the west side of the Green, south of McNutt. The building was donated by Boston businessman Wallace Fullam Robinson to be a home for student organizations and an antidote to the influence of athletics.
ROCKEFELLER CENTER 1983
Lo-Yi Chan, 1954 designed the major addition to Silsby Hall, which contains offices, classrooms, and lecture halls. The hall bears the name of Nelson Rockefeller 1930, Governor of New York and Vice President under Ford.
RED ROLFE FIELD
The baseball field on South Park Street carries the name of the Yankees' Robert Rolfe, 1931 (R.N. Hill, 286).
ROLLINS CHAPEL 1884-5 (CHAPEL [V])
John Lyman Faxon of Boston designed the Romanesque chapel, the gift of the Hon. Edward Ashton Rollins of Philadelphia, class of 1851, in memory of his father, Daniel G. Rollins, his mother, Susan B. Rollins and his Wife Ellen H. Rollins (Emerson 1900). Faxon was also the designer of Dod and Brown Halls at Princeton. The building cost $32,000 (Richardson 1932, 617). The College dedicated the building on the same day as Wilson Hall (J.K. Lord 1913, 421). The chapel stands on the site of Kinsman Commons, demolished in 1826, which occupied a plot the elder Eleazar Wheelock had given to his son Eleazar. By 1838 administrators planned to add a pair of buildings to Dartmouth Row, but managed only Reed Hall; the second would have gone on this site, but the College dropped the idea in the 1840s when declining enrollments reduced the need for a dormitory and a national depression reduced funds (Tolles).
When the College was next ready to build again, the Kinsman site presented itself. By 1885 the College indeed required a chapel: the College had moved its earlier 18th-century Chapel from Dartmouth Row to make way for Wentworth Hall in 1828. At that time Ammi Young installed a room in the center of Dartmouth Hall, later called Old Chapel, that took up that function. But the school outgrew the room and finally put it to other uses when the larger Rollins Chapel was ready for students. Rollins is built of pink Lebanon granite with Longmeadow sandstone trimmings. The building is extremely similar to but slightly less elaborate than Faxon's 1886 Baptist Church in Newton, Ma. Henry-Russell Hitchcock finds that building inferior and attributes it, apparently in error, to H.H. Richardson's office. (Henry-Russell Hitchcock, 263n5).
Originally a Greek cross, the College moved the apse of Rollins bodily eastward 40 feet in 1908 to hold more students (Richardson 1932, 681). Professor Keyes oversaw the work and designed a choir with small chapels on the sides (Tucker, 313). Again in 1912 the College had to expand, this time by lengthening each of the transepts 20 feet to the north or south (Graham 1991, 31). Now the building held more than twice its original capacity of 600; historian Richardson also believed it also looked better in its original form (Richardon 1932, 617).
A number of other changes have affected the building. The chapel escaped burning in 1888 when a fire was confined to the organ (Chase, 650). During the first decades of using the chapel, the College placed memorial windows of the deceased Presidents in the chancel and transepts (Emerson 1900). The College remodeled the building in 1965 by whitewashing the interior and plastering in the side arches to form a sacristy and choir robing room (Studio Art 67). Graham writes that the College reversed the seating to face east at this time and covered the stained glass in the east end to keep light from shining in the eyes of worshipers (Graham 1991, 32). One would expect, however, that the seats had always faced the apse in the east as churches traditionally do; another explanation for the panels over the stained glass is that the building now functions as a non-denominational chapel. The College remodeled the building in 1986 also. The south entrance beneath the tower features two of the total of perhaps four gargoyles at Dartmouth.
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH (I) 1887 (19XX) (PI LAMBDA PHI HOUSE [I]) ("CRACK HOUSE")
The congregation built the wooden church at 7 East South Street (Williams, 216) and occupied it for almost four decades before moving in 1924 (Williams, 217). By 1928 the 1924 Pi Lambda Phi Fraternity (Richardson 1928, 796) owned the building. That organization moved by 1961 to the Carleton House at 4 Occom Ridge and later went defunct. By the latter part of the century students rented the house, called by 1998 the "Crack House." The College purchased the building in 1999.
ROOD HOUSE* 1824 (before 1901)
Benjamin Perkins had the house built on the corner of Wentworth and College Streets, where Webster Hall now stands. Perkins had set up his own shop in 1818 in the Tontine (I) after clerking for Richard Lang. Perkins left for Boston in 1830, and after several sales Professor Peabody bought the house. After the professor died in 1839 his widow housed a successful girls' school in the house, which passed to Mrs. L.C. Dickinson when the widow's remarried in 1850. Mrs. Dickinson transferred the school two years later for the same reason to Professor O.P. Hubbard. In 1856 Hubbard shifted the school to his own house on the west side of the Green and Mrs. Julia M. Sherman opened a new school in the Rood House. The school lasted until 1863 when President Smith occupied the house for two years, after which the Rev. Heman Rood bought the house, c.1865. Rood lived in the building until his death in 1882; in 1886 the Hon. L.P. Morton, Hanover merchant and future Vice President of the U.S., bought the house and gave it to the College. The College eventually demolished the building to make way for Webster Hall, which it started planning around 1895 and started building in 1901.
ROPE FERRY* by 1793 (18XX) (FERRY [II])
The main ferry launched from where the bridge is today; this was the first ferry upriver. A rope connected the mouth of Girl Brook and the Vail of Tempe on the Hanover side to the road leading to the home of Lieutenant-Governor Olcott, now the Albert H. Johnson home, as well as the old Norwich meetinghouse, on the Vermont side. The date of the ferry is unknown, but townspeople knew the road as Rope Ferry Road by 1793. People continued to file complaints against the ferry after the College had given ferry rights to the Bridge Company as late as 1806 (Waterman, 35).
ROPE FERRY ROAD by 1793 (OLD FERRY ROAD) (STUMP LANE) (LOVERS' LANE)
One of oldest streets into town, Rope Ferry Road began when townspeople trod it from the northwest corner of the Green to the ferry in 1795. The street went by the familiar name of Stump Lane in much of the 19th century because of the stumps that lined the road: they came from the Green before 1831 (Morrison, 55). Others called the road Lovers' Lane (Chase, 164).
ROTH CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE 1996-97
Construction on the center for the Upper Valley's Jewish community began in May of 1996. Kliment & Halsband designed the building at 5-7 Occom Road (Dartmouth News Service). The architects had to reduce the design from its originally-planned size after neighborhood controversy; the clapboard siding and pitched roof connect the building to nearby structures.
ROWLEY HALL* 1807 (1928) (ROWLEY HOUSE) (PHI ZETA MU HALL [II]) (STEWART'S HALL) (DARTMOUTH ASSEMBLY ROOMS) (BROWN HALL [a] )
S.H.G. Rowley had the house built between Kinsman Commons and the Kimball House 15 rods to the east, in other words east of today's Rollins Chapel. Rowley had used the Kimball House for a year: in his own building he was able to run a large store with a handsome hall on the second floor known variously as Rowley Hall and later the Dartmouth Assembly Rooms as well as other names. The building stood gable-end to the lane leading up the hill to the house of Eleazar Wheelock, Jr., or Princeton House (J.K. Lord 1928, 57). When Dartmouth University excluded the College from Dartmouth Hall from 1817 to the restoration in 1819, Rowley Hall was the only College building. Dartmouth in fact rented the hall, which it called Brown Hall for the College President, for chapel exercises. Recitations took place in students' and other private rooms; at this time the first floor of the building was a hat shop (Richardson 1932, 325). Varied shops came and went, with only John Stewart & Co. staying long, from 1816-21, when the hall was called Stewart's Hall.
The College bought the land on which the hall stood in 1833; Drs. Muzzey and Oliver bought the building in 1835, presumably from the College, and moved it to the present site of Wheeler Hall. The land on which it stood included a small parcel that Professor Ripley had originally owned and had deeded in 1784 to Jabez Bingham with houses on it--Bingham was under appointment of the Town as the keeper of one of the houses of correction the next year (J.K. Lord 1928, 59). Here Muzzey and Oliver fitted up the building as dormitory for medical students, who continued to occupy it for a number of years. The Phi Zeta Mu Fraternity, the Chandler School organization that became Sigma Chi (Richardson 1932, 497), also kept a hall in the building. Between 1854 and 1865 J.S. Adams occupied the house as a private residence, with Professor C.A. Young following him until 1877. Professor C.F. Emerson was the next owner and moved the building 20 feet back from the street in 1881 to a part of the original Malt House site.
Emerson sold the house to the College in 1904 to make room for Wheeler Hall; the College moved the house to the center of Elm Street at no. 3 (J.K. Lord 1928, 59), the site of the Smith House. There the house became 1, 3 Elm Street under the ownership of L.B. McWhood and A.F. Pauli--by 1912 the house appears on Sanborn maps as a duplex. McCarter describes the building as it stood in 1928 as "the long, low McWhood-Beetle house" (McCarter, 54). Workers demolished Rowley to make room for Baker Library in 1928 (Richardson 1932, 325). The building stood behind the central stack tower of Baker, now under the 1940s stacks addition.
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-SACHEM FIELD 18XX (ATHLETIC FIELD [VI])
The large group of athletic fields, formerly farmland, lies south of Hanover near Sachem Village.
-SACHEM TOWNHOUSES 1962-1966
The housing for married students also goes by the name Sachem Village and includes 86 units.
-SACHEM VILLAGE 1946, 1958, 1962
The College built the original 50 units of postwar housing for married students by March of 1946. The site was at Lebanon Street and Hovey Lane, previously a set of tennis courts (Widmayer 1991, 240). After 1958 the College razed some or all of the Village (Widmayer 1991, 114) though Hill writes that the College relocated 48 units in 1958 and added new units in 1962 (R.N. Hill, 332). The College approved 24 new units in 1966 (Widmayer 1991, 240).
RUSSELL SAGE HALL 1922-1923
Eminent architect John Russell Pope designed the building (Riorden) with Larson & Wells of Hanover, and it cost $176,000 (Richardson 1932, 776). The dormitory stands on the 45-acre Hitchcock Estate, in fact it stands near the site of of the old Hitchcock Mansion. The dormitory held 99 in 7 singles, 4 triples and 40 doubles in 1961 (Office of the Bursar), while in 1990 it held 23 more in 23 singles, 3 doubles and 31 triples. All of the doubles and triples have half-baths with many triples have fireplaces (ORL). The hall operated as the ship "U.S.S. Russell Sage" during W.W.II when it was one of ten Navy V-12 dormitories (Navy at Dartmouth, 1944). The Viking painting in the upper hallway predates the advent of Asgard and is more of the period of the annual "Sussel Rage" party. The building connects to Butterfield through the 1988 Hyphen (Facilities).
ST. DENIS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH (II) 1924
Larson and Wells designed the Gothic stone church (Williams, 217) which stands at the corner where Lebanon Street meets Sanborn Road. The land had been part of Dorrance Currier's farm until 1918 (Barrett, 43). The congregation had previously occupied the wooden church at 7 East South Street.
ST. THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH 1874-1876 (EPISCOPAL CHURCH [II])
New York architect Frederick Clarke Withers designed the Gothic church of stone at 9 West Wheelock Street, now standing adjacent the Psi Upsilon House. The church occupies land that one Markham owned in 1855, and stands partially on a former house site. The congregation moved here from the old Methodist Hall, see South Hall. An illustration of St. Thomas appears above the caption "Gothic in Form and Feeling" in a 1905 Ralph Adams Cram article on church architecture; Cram names St. Thomas and five other Eastern churches as milestones in the progressive development of good architecture in the United States. Referring to the architects Upjohn the younger, Withers, Congdon and others, Cram writes that the buildings contain "a frank simplicity, a grave directness, a sincerity and a dominant love for all they did" (Cram, 137-8). The 150 ft. tower that Withers planned is yet unbuilt. Francis Kowsky in her book on the architect Withers puts the Hanover church at the top of his career: "In 1872, the year before he documented his attainments as an ecclesiastical architect in the pages of Church
Architecture, Withers conceived what was perhaps his most perfect house of
worship, St. Thomas Church in Hanover, New Hampshure (Figure 60). The faultlessly ecclesiological Early English church, recognized as one of the nation's "notable Episcopal churches,"[note3] was the quinessence of romantic scholarly medievalism. Endowed with timeless dignity and beauty, St. Thomas, which was built of local granite laid in random courses of small rock-face stones, exemplifies the letter and spirit of the Gothic Revival in American and marks the zenith of Withers's career as a designer of churches." (Kowsky, 97-98) The author cites George W. Shinn, Kings Handbook of Notable Episcopal Churches in the United States (New York: Moses King, 1889), 168-70 and "St. Thomas' Church, Hanover, New Hampshire," The Churchman 59 (7 January 1888): 22-23. Withers also included a rendering of the church as Design V in his Church Architecture including the striking tower that was never built (Kowsky, 181 n3). The church added Milham House in 1954 (Williams, 219) and Frank J. Barrett, Sr. designed the stone narthex that the church added to the west end in 1959 (Barrett, 20). The Navy V-12 program seems to have manned the church as a "ship" during W.W.II (Navy at Dartmouth, 1944).
SANBORN HALL* c.1810 (1929) (SANBORN HOUSE [A]) (PRESIDENT'S HOUSE [II])
Dr. Cyrus Perkins had this house built on what would become Sanborn Lane, the future site of Robinson Hall. The house stood on the north side of the Winton lot, with the William Winton House no longer there and the Comfort Sever House standing upon the lower part of the lot. Dr. Perkins left town after the University collapse and sold the house to President Brown of the College, who died in 1819. The College bought the house and Presidents Dana and Tyler lived there. Dr. Oliver bought the house in 1833 and sold it on his resignation to Professor E.D. Sanborn (J.K. Lord 1928, 47). The Trustees bought the house again and remodeled it in 1885 (Emerson 1911) and again in 1894, when Charles Rich designed a large dormitory extension to the rear. The building then held 50 students (Emerson 1900). Around 1913 the College moved the house back from Main Street in order to build Robinson Hall. Sanborn's new site was across from South Fairbanks Hall, a site that had previously been home to the 1891 Ball Cage (Thayer). The College demolished the building in 1929 (Larson) and Thayer Dining Hall now occupies its site. Sanborn's study still carried some early wallpaper representing the Bay of Naples, which the College moved to the new Sanborn House (Graham 1991, 64).
SANBORN HOUSE (b) 1928
The library and offices of the English department connects to Baker Library by a walkway and tunnel. The College built the building with $344,000 from the bequest of Edwin Webster Sanborn and named it for Professor Edwin David Sanborn 1832 , Mary Webster Sanborn, Miss Kate Sanborn and Mrs. Mary Webster (Sanborn) Babcock (Widmayer 1977, 117). Jens Frederick Larson designed the building, one of his finest in Hanover. The Wren Room follows a room that Christopher Wren designed; the Poetry Room is a replica of Professor Sanborn's study and includes the mantle, Naples wallpaper, window casings, furniture, and other elements from the original Sanborn House; the Rupert Brooke Room follows a modified Norman decor; and the Shakespeare Room features a carving of Shakespeare's coat of arms above the mantle (Graham 1991, 67).
SANBORN LANE 17XX (CEMETERY LANE)
Professor Sanborn's house stood on the southern corner of the Lane and gave it its name. Earlier it was called Cemetery Lane.
SANBORN ROAD 18XX
Henry Sanborn, poolroom owner, built several of the houses on the street (Morrison, 60) and is the namesake for the road that meets Lebanon Street opposite Memorial Field.
SARGENT ROAD 1903
Mr. Sargent developed the subdivision that this road accesses as it leaves Maple Street to the north.
SARGENT PLACE 1900 (SARGENT STREET)
The small street heads south from Lebanon Street (J.K. Lord 1928, 62) at around number 17, though now it is only a driveway next to the Lodge.
SATELLITE STATION 198X
The station stands north of the ex-Hospital Parking Garage and was extant by 1984.
SAWMILL* (I) 17XX (18XX)
The College sawmill used water power from Mink Brook and stood near the grist mill below Sand Hill (Chase, 562). The Town used the building as a quarantine site during a smallpox epidemic in 1776 (Richardson 1932, 168). The College eventually abandoned the mill, though signs remained until the late 19th Century (Chase, 238).
SAWMILL* (II) 1784 (18XX)
The College bult a second mill on Mink Brook to supply materials for the construction of Dartmouth Hall (Chase, 575); it stood near the House of Six Scholars.
SCHOOL STREET 1843
The Town opened the street above the school on the corner of West Wheelock Street, now the Christian Science Hall. The Town extended the street to the south in 1910 (Morrison, 56).
-SECOND COLLEGE GRANT 18XX
The New Hampshire Legislature granted this land in the northern part of the state to the College in the early part of the 19th century to make up for an earlier grant that had proved unworkable. The College has added new parcels; currently the College Forester oversees logging operations.
SCULLY-FAYER FIELD 2000
The artificial-turf field lies southeast of Thompson Arena and is host to the field-hockey and lacrosse teams. The field's stands seat 1,500. The families of Alma and Donald Scully 49 and Helen and Peter Fahey 68 donated the field in memory of long-time soccer and lacrosse coach Tom Dent (Office of Public Affairs 2000).
COMFORT SEVER HOUSE 1774
Original College Carpenter Comfort Sever built the long two-story building with its gable-end to the street. The house stood just south of the future Robinson Hall on a site the Dartmouth National Bank would occupy for a time. The house contained stores and a printshop, and was also the office of the College Treasurer (J.M. Lord, 102) from 1851 to 1870 when the bank moved to its new building down Main Street. The Sever House then moved to 16 West Wheelock Street where it became the McCarthy House (J.M. Lord, 102).
SENIOR FENCE 1899
The two short rows of green-painted wooden fencing on granite posts stand on the west side of the Green by the corner. The College first installed a fence around the Green in 1836 (J.K. Lord 1928, 23) and removed it in 1893 once it no longer had to keep livestock out (Richardson, 681). The Class of 1893 sponsored the Senior Fence as a way to recall that earlier fence, though the way the College placed the element was rather more cynical. Students requested a senior fence, which Yale among other schools already had, and the fence first went up on some part of the Green that was not the southwest corner. An 1899 editorial in The Dartmouth suggested that the fence as it stood was in a bad location and that a new one should stand on the southwest corner of the Green running north. The new location would satisfy the need for a proper lounging place, "relieve the present congested appearance" of the corner, and give students a place to gather at twilight and sing. "Such a fence would not detract from the value of the senior fence which has never met purpose for which it was designed" (The Dartmouth 20 [28 April 1899]: 449). Perhaps this replacement fence is the one that appears on the west side of the Green in a 1908 view, not reaching the corner. Later a fence, likely that fence, was extended to the corner as plaques on the existing fence indicate.
SEWERS 1890s-
Enterprising citizens began the sewers as a private venture in 1890 in connection with the hospital sewer at the north end of the village. In 1915 the town banned open drains and cesspools in favor of sewers (J.K. Lord 1928, 78).
SHATTUCK OBSERVATORY 1854
Ammi Young designed the observatory, his last building at Dartmouth. George C. Shattuck, M.D., LL. D. of Boston, class of 1803, gave the building (Emerson 1900).The building had a wood and copper dome until around 1958 when it went to Smithsonian and was lost, according to one account. The dome bearings that workers removed at that time were six pre-Civil War cannonballs (Graham 1991, 212). The current dome is a modern steel one. Two auxiliary buildings, tiny temples, stand near the building.
SHAWMUT BANK BUILDING 1913, 1959 (DARTMOUTH SAVINGS BANK)
The Bank Building stands on the northeast corner of Main and Lebanon Streets. The Dartmouth National Bank, which had occupied a building on the Green but moved to make room for Robinson Hall, originally shared the lobby with the owner of the building, the Dartmouth Savings Bank. This situation would continue until 1975. The building occupies the site of 44-46 Main Street, with the narrow house at no. 42 removed and left as a passageway. The banks enlarged their building in 1959 (Barrett, 35), adding bays to the north of thethree-bay front, as well as upper floors. The original corner quoins are still visible in the front facade. Between 1992 and 1996 what had become the Dartmouth Bank transformed into the New Dartmouth Bank, then Shawmut Bank, then Fleet Bank, which owned the large bank building across the street at the time. The basement became home to a shop, originally Subterra Sports, after renovations in 1995, and the Campion's Women's Shop occupied the southern half of the first floor c.1993.
SHERMAN HOUSE 1883 (SIGMA PHI EPSILON HOUSE [I])
Professor Frank A. Sherman had his house built at 37 North Main. Today the building stands on the corner of Maynard and North Main, though the house predates Maynard Street by nine years. Sherman still owned the house in 1905. In its original guise, the house was a rather conventional two-story building with a steeply-pitched roof and jerkin-headed gables. By 1928 the Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity had bought the house and had hired Jens Larson to design a new appearance: as it stands today the house's upper stories wear a rather Tudor half-timbered skin, with leaded windows and a porch of carefully haphazard brick. The building was in private hands again by 1950 and the College now owns it.
SHOPS (II) between 1912 and 1931
The shops for B&G/FO&M stand on the corner of Lebanon and Crosby Streets, south of McKenzie. The College built the northernmost section built between 1912 and 1922 and the rest followed between 1929 and 1944. This took place on the site of a long auto garage that went up between 1904 and 1912 and still existed in 1928. The College added the brick wall that screens the view from Lebanon Street in the late 1980s.
SHURTLEFF-BROWN HOUSE* 1790 (1911)
Samuel McClure had the house built (J.M. Lord, 106) at 12 North Main Street, and it represents the last example of a house that stood up to the street line on the Green (J.K. Lord 1928, 22). The College had granted the land to McClure in 1784, and north of the house was a shop, now moved to become the Luman Boutwell House. Dr. Shurtleff bought the property in 1807 and it stayed in his family, passing to his daughter Mrs. Susan A. Brown, until her death in 1900. In 1828 the College had moved the old Chapel from its original location adjacent Dartmouth Hall to the north side of this lot, where the College Church used it as a vestry; about five years later the building moved again and the Hubbard House later occupied its site (J.K. Lord 1928, 48). By 1905 S.F. Jones owned the house, which the College purchased ca. 1906-1910 and tore down in 1911 (J.K. Lord 1928, 22) to make room for Parkhurst Hall.
SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON HOUSE (I) by 1855 (PAUL HOUSE) (ASHBEL HOTEL)
D. Warren had the house at 6 School Street built and continued to own it in 1855. The building took the name of the Paul House, and was also the home of Deacon B.W. Hale and later Professor Charles F. Richardson by 1905. The 1908 Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity then occupied the building, and later H.A. Brown, who operated the Ashbel Hotel here by 1916 (J.K. Lord 1928, 66). Jack H. Albrecht owned the house in 1928 and 1931.
SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON HOUSE (III) by 1931
The brick building with the giant-order portico of four slim columns stands at 38 College Street. The 1904 Chi Tau Kappa Fraternity became a chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon in 1908 (Richardson 1932, 732) and occupied a former residence on this site; the fraternity replace it with this building between 1928 and 1931.
SIGMA CHI HOUSE (II) 1912 (1931)
The Sigma Chi Fraternity built this wooden house at 3 Webster Avenue on a lot that had remained vacant since the College opened the street at the end of the 19th century. The house burned on 28 September 1931 (Barrett, 87) and the fraternity replaced it with the current brick Tabard House.
SIGMA DELTA HOUSE 1936-37 (PHI GAMMA DELTA HOUSE [III]) (PHOENIX HOUSE) (SIGMA KAPPA HOUSE)
The Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity had Alfred Hoyt Granger of Chicago design the house at 10 West Wheelock to replace the former dwelling that the fraternity had occupied on that site (Barrett, 17). Wells, Hudson & Granger was the local architectural firm of Jens Larson's former partner and the College Superintendent of Buildings, Harry Wells. The fraternity went local in 1965 as Phoenix and later folded. The College bought the house and rented it for use by the first sorority at Dartmouth, the 1977 Sigma Kappa, which went local to become Sigma Delta in 1988 (Baird's).
SIGMA NU HOUSE* (I) 1842 (by 1927) (GREEN CASTLE)
Joseph L. Dewey had the house at 27 North Main Street built for his sister-in-law, Mrs. Thomas Whipple. The site was next north of the corner with Elm Street, where Elm House (b) stood. The Kiewit Computation Center and its landscaping later occupied the sites of both houses. Dewey also built the Phi Kappa Sigma House across the street, precursor to the current Gamma Delta Chi House. By 1855 the house passed to E.K. Smith, the well-known baker and confectioner; in 1905 B.B. Weston owned the building.
The 1903 Pukwana Club became a chapter of Sigma Nu Fraternity in 1907 and bought and remodeled the building in 1911. Fourteen members of the fraternity slept in a third floor bunkroom and had private studies on the floor below. The members built a tennis court behind the house, which they called the "Green Castle" (Hoyt). The fraternity allowed the house to run down (J.K. Lord 1928, 52) and moved to a new building on Webster Avenue in 1925. The building appears on a 1927 Sanborn map as the Tea House; the College demolished the building to make way for the Choate House, which occupied a site just south of the building's footprint from 1927 to 1966.
SIGMA NU HOUSE (II) 1925 (SIGMA NU DELTA HOUSE)
Jens Larson designed the house at 12 Webster Avenue, numbered 10 on a 1928 map, for the organization as it moved out of its first house on North Main Street. The house has its entrance at the east end and originally had fourteen bedrooms on the second floor and three on the third. Builders completed the house in September of 1925 at a cost of 45 cents per cubic foot, with a total volume of approximately 94,800 cubic feet (Architectural Forum, December 1925). As a local fraternity the organization called itself Sigma Nu Delta between 1961 and 1985 and then returned to the national organization. The organization has altered the house in a number of ways, from sealing the doorway between the first-floor pool room and library to installing a kitchen on the third floor in 1995.
SIGMA PHI EPSILON HOUSE (III) 1896
Thomas W.D. Worthen had the house built by at 11 Webster Avenue in 1896 (J.K. Lord 1928, 68). Worthen was also a moving force behind Occom Pond. By 1931 C.R. Baillie owned the house, and it remained in private hands at least through 1950. By 1961 the 1909 Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity had purchased the house (Office of the Bursar). The organization is descended from the local Omicron Pi Sigma of 1908 (R.N. Hill, 234).
SILSBY HALL 1927-1928 (NATURAL SCIENCE BUILDING)
Jens Larson designed the building that bears the name of the donor's grandfather, the Rev. Ozias Silsby, 1785 (Graham 1990, 77). The College revealed the name of the donor, T. Julien Silsby of Brookline, Ma., a year after he died (Widmayer 1977, 121). The building cost $468,000 (Richardson 1932, 774) and contains classrooms, offices and laboratories that replace the demolished Butterfield Museum. The site had seen Professor D. J. Noyes' 1851 house, which followed several houses that had burned; the College purchased the house and moved it by 1912 to 4 Webster Avenue where it would later house the Eye Institute. As well the house at 24 North Main Street stood on the site; that was the Kappa Kappa Kappa House and would face Carpenter Hall if it still existed. The College bought the house and demolished it in 1926 after the organization had moved up the street to Webster Avenue. Webster Cottage also stood on the site, facing Elm Street, and the College moved it to a site just north of today's Kiewit.
The first film of the Dartmouth Film Society, Million Dollar Legs, showed in room 14 in 1949 (Dartmouth Film Society, 8). The College remodeled the building in 1975 and again in 1982, when the Chan-designed Rockefeller Center addition appeared to the north.
SKI HUT* by 1922 (by 1961) (OUTING CLUB HUT)
This rough-and-ready social building stood on the site of the College Store House, which had previously been the hotel livery. The hut dates to some time between 1912 and 1922 according to Sanborn maps . The building was vacant in 1922, appeared as a furniture repair shop in 1927, appears in 1944 as ski storage. Other sources describe the building as the Outing Club Hut behind the Inn (Heussler, 60) and the Hanover Inn's Ski Hut (Widmayer 1991, 180). The building appears on a 1956 map and McCarter mentions it in 1957 (McCarter, 94), by which time it was used for social gaterhings. It does not appear on a map of 1961.
SKI JUMP* (I) 1921 (1929)
The Outing Club built this jump with an 85' tower in the Vale of Tempe. It was rather experimental in form and proved inadequate.
SKI JUMP* (II) 1929 (1993)
The D.O.C. got a loan from the College to hire the Boston Bridge Company to build the jump on the Golf Course in the Vale of Tempe (Hooke, 225). This jump replaced the 1921 jump and served for six decades; it was the first and last big collegiate jump in the country. In 1980 the N.C.A.A. stopped classifying ski-jumping as a sport for insurance reasons; jumping continued to fall from favor and the College demolished the structure for safety reasons in 1993 (DAM Winter 1993).
SKUNK HOLLOW
The hollow lies at the foot of Balch Hill (Morrison, 67).
SLEEPY HOLLOW
The hollow lies southwest of Lebanon Street and forms part of the ravine through which Mink Brook runs (Morrison, 67).
NATHAN SMITH (LABORATORY)* 1908-10 (1990) ([NEW] MEDICAL SCHOOL BUILDING [b]) (SMITH LAB)
Edgar Hayes Hunter designed the building, which opened in 1908 (J.K. Lord 1913, 495). The building stood two and one-half stories high on a site just to the north of the Medical School Building on College Street. The building it cost $21,000 (Richardson 1932, 735) and housed the state bacteriological laboratory, recitation rooms, library and offices, with some laboratory function continuing throughout the life of the building. The College remodeled Nathan Smith in 1964 and 1981 (Facilities). By the mid-1980s the building connected to a companion building to the north. The college demolished the building in 1990 to make way for the Burke Chemistry Laboratory (Barrett, 103).
SMITH HOUSE* 1830s (1881)
Dr. Edward Smith had the house built at 3 Elm Street. In the 1840s Mrs. J.M. Ellis used the building as a girls' school; for a period of 20 years afterward the Rev. David Kimball, a printer, and various other tenants occupied the building. The house burned in 1881 and Rowley Hall occupied its site (J.K. Lord 1928, 59).
SOUTH FAYERWEATHER HALL 1907 (1909) 1910
Charles Rich designed the dormitory to flank the earlier Fayerweather Hall in a pattern mimicking that of Dartmouth Row. The hall cost $35,686 to build (Richardson 1932, 677) and stands on the site of the Burke house, which was already long-gone as it had burned in 1856 (J.K. Lord 1928, 64). Students under the leadership of Fred Harris founded the Dartmouth Outing Club on 17 December 1909 (Richardson 1932, 758) in room 4. Later that month, however, the building burned to its brick skeleton. Students saved themselves by jumping from windows into the deep snow (ORL); Fred Harris injured his knee doing so (Hooke).
The College rebuilt the building in 1910, again to Rich's designs. The hall became a barracks in 1918 (R.N. Hill, 241) and was one of ten Navy V-12 dormitories (operated as the ship "U.S.S. South Fayerweather") during W.W.II (Navy 1944). In 1945 the College remodeled the rooms in South Fayer into kitchenette suites for some of the more-than 50 postwar married student couples (Widmayer 1991, 25). The hall returned to normal use within a few years. In 1961 the building housed 65 men in 10 doubles and 17 triples, with an entry on the ground floor giving access to five of the triples (Office of the Bursar). By 1990 the hall held 64 in 2 singles, 6 doubles, 14 triples and 2 quads (ORL). The rooms all have half-baths where none in North Fayer do, likely a result of the modifications for married students. The College remodeled the building in 1984-5 to connect it to Fayerweather Hall (VSBA). The Class of 1961 sponsors the hall (ORL).
SOUTH HALL* (a) by 1795 (1888) (HANOVER INN [a]) (UNION HOUSE) (AMERICAN HOUSE) (LOWER HOTEL)
Galaliel Loomis had the hotel and tavern of many names built at 31 South Main Street. Before Loomis, James Wheelock ran a tavern on the site from 1802, an institution that continued on this site in some form for 75 years. Between 1821 and 1838 the owner attached a two-story piazza to the front of the building. Currier bought the building, and later Frary owned it. The building became a hotel, and in 1868 the Agricultural College bought it for $3500 to use as an dormitory (Richardson 1932, 525). The school named the building South Hall (McCarter, 83). The building was unpopular and became a tenement after students abandoned it; decay had begun to set in by 1874 (The Dartmouth, 14 March 1936). By 1884 three separate additions adjoined the rear wall of the building, one of which connected to a barn. At this time the Sanborn map labels the building "boarding." The building burned on the night of 11 July 1888 along with two adjacent houses (Barrett, 1997 Town of Hanover calendar "Main Street"). The building appears as "Ruins" on a July 1889 Sanborn map. The Tavern Block replaced the building after it burned.
SOUTH HALL* (b) 1840 (1959) (METHODIST CHURCH) (EPISCOPAL CHURCH [I]) (KIBLING'S OPERA HOUSE) (DARTMOUTH HOTEL) (COMMERCIAL HOTEL)
The Methodists of Hanover built this church at 1 College Street, the northeast corner of College and Lebanon Streets. The site is now the parking lot south of Brewster Hall. Eleazar Wheelock had originally granted the land to his son John on New Year's Day, 1779. John built a 1791 house on the site, which he lost to a progressive innkeeper who turned it into a novel coffee shop and tavern (The Dartmouth, 14 March 1936). The Methodist Church built this building on the site in 1840 but sold it to the Episcopalians in 1850. That church renovated the building in 1861 with the help of 100 pounds from the Earl of Dartmouth (Williams, 215). George W. Kibling bought the building in 1872 and converted it to an opera house with a 15-foot deep stage and 600 seats (McCarter, 84). The building appears as an opera house and roller skating rink on a map of 1884. Kibling's son G.F. Kibling continued to use the building as an opera house for 10 years. One of the Kiblings was the hero of "A Temperance Town," a play Charles Hoyt wrote about Kibling's imprisonment in Norwich for illegally selling liquor there, during which time he sold the hotel but bought it again after the Governor pardoned him (South Hall File, College Archives). The Dartmouth noted the frescoing in the building during this time (McCarter, 84). The owners enlarged and transformed the building into the Dartmouth Hotel after the Main Street Fire of 1887 shifted business toward it. The building appears on Sanborn maps as the Dartmouth Hotel in 1889 and the Commercial Hotel between at least 1894 and 1912. The hotel had many subsequent uses: it was also a boarding house, a bowling alley that disrupted neighbors, and a tenement. It was often the object of investigation.
The College bought the building for a cost of $31,500 (Richardson 1932, 776) in 1921 and named it South Hall (Widmayer 1977, 50). The hall became a dormitory, but the College closed it in 1929 (The Dartmouth, 14 March 1936). A 1931 map indicates that it was unused. The College revived the dormitory in 1956. McCarter wrote that it "fosters in its present incarnation, as it has in the past, an esprit de corps, a private club attitude even in a Chas. Addams setting, that has been a characteristic of the inmates of such dorms as old Sanborn, Crosby, Reed, or Hellgate" (McCarter, 84). Rumors of the ghost of John Wheelock existed (The Dartmouth, 14 March 1936). The College razed the hall in 1959 (Williams, 215) prior to building the Hopkins Center to the northwest.
SOUTH MAIN STREET 1775
South Main Street originally went by the name Lebanon Road because it led to Lebanon City, now West Lebanon. The street runs from the southwest corner of the Green to Mink Brook Meadow. A county road followed the same path soon after South Main appeared and continued diagonally across the Green to Lyme to the north. Businesses grew on the south part of South Main below Wheelock Street. The Town paved the street in 1901 (R.N. Hill, 295).
SOUTH MASSACHUSETTS HALL 1912
Charles Rich designed the dormitory that stands south of Massachusetts Hall and adjoins it by an open colonnade. The building stands on the site that the Proctor House occupied for a short time between 1903 and 1907 or 1912. South Mass became a barracks in 1918 (R.N. Hill, 241) and performed as a sick bay for the Naval Training School that took over most of the campus during W.W.II (Navy at Dartmouth, 1944). The dormitory held 69 in 14 singles, 24 doubles, and 7 triples in 1961 (Office of the Bursar); it held the same number in 24 singles, 12 doubles and 7 triples in 1990 (ORL). Women first occupied the building in 1988 (ORL). Television actor Andrew Shue '89 lived in room 305 (Jacob). The building is similar to North Massachusetts except that it lacks basement rooms.
SPAULDING POOL design 1917- built 1919-20
Spaulding Swimming Pool is an addition to Alumni Gymnasium designed by Rich & Mathesius. Governor Rolland Spaulding donated the pool before the First World War, but construction could not begin until rationing subsided afterward.
THE SPHINX (II) 1903
Manchester architect William M. Butterfield designed this tomb, which the society constructed in 1903 (Tolles, 295). The cast concrete building stands located between the site of what was then Culver Hall and the house of Charles Hall at 7 East Wheelock Street. The building's current neighbors are South Fayerweather Hall and the Alpha Delta House. Students founded the society in 1886 and had located themselves in the Tontine by 1887, though the building burned later that year. Jens Larson designed the addition to the rear in the mid-1920s.
SQUASH COURTS 1931
Jens Fredrick Larson designed the addition to the rear of Alumni Gymnasium's west wing, analogous in siting to Ex-Governor Rolland H. Spaulding's earlier donation of the Pool behind the Gym. The building originally contained ten singles courts and one doubles court ("A Description of Dartmouth College," 72).
STEAM TUNNEL SYSTEM 1898-
The College began its steam tunnels in 1898 to accompany the new Heating Plant; a half-century later the College spent one million dollars on the steam distribution system, electric power plant and lines and sewage system, in 1957-8 (R.N. Hill). In 1993 workers built a new tunnel that followed a route from the Heating Plant across Wheelock Street and College Street, up the Green and then along College Street, and up to Elm Street. The line serves buildings north of Elm Street in the newly-acquired Hospital property; some of the line's periodic ventilators occur below the northeast corner of the Green, a.k.a. the Roaring Maw, and on the northeast lawn of Baker Library.
STEELE CHEMISTRY BUILDING 1920-1921
Larson and Wells designed the building to contain laboratories, offices and classrooms. The building cost $475,000 in total (Richardson 1932, 774), with Trustee Sanford Steele 1870 of New York City leaving $249,000 of the total (Richardson 1932, 774). The building bears the name of Sanford's brother Benjamin H. Steele, 1857 (Widmayer 1977, 50). Steele stands on site of the Professors Lord House, which the College moved northward to make room. The College added top floors to the wings of the building in 1958 (Widmayer 1991, 136) or 1959 (R.N. Hill, 332). The College also remodeled the hall in 1974 when it connected the Fairchild tower to the east.
STELL HALL 1930
J.F. Larson designed the refectory of the Tuck School that bears the name of Edward Tuck's wife Julia Stell. The building cost $297,655 (Widmayer 1977, 121). Stell connects to Chase House on the east and Byrne Hall, the School's new dining hall, on the west.
STONE VIADUCT c.1930
The high stone-faced concrete viaduct stands behind the Murdough Center and gives access to the rear of Tuck. The arches of the bridge are reminiscent of those in Memorial Field and the Gold Coast, and the bridge's connection with the Tuck School also leads one to believe that Jens Larson designed it. The picturesque ravine below contains a stream that the College paved over some time after the mid-1960s when it appears in a natural state in the Day-By-Day. The ravine above the bridge, including the lower parts of its piers, has been roofed over as a courtyard of the Tuck School's Whittemore Hall.
STORE HOUSE* 1871 (1913)
The builders of the 1871 Balch House at Main and Wheelock built this accompanying barn behind the house. The one-story building ran north-south a short distance up from Wheelock Street; it occupied the site of the pre-1774 Hatter's Shop that workers demolished to make room. After the fire of 1887 G.W. Rand used the building as a furniture store and continued until the College bought the ruins of the Balch House and moved the barn to the rear of the lot in order to build College Hall in 1901, now the Collis Center. Sanborn maps from 1889 to 1899 show that the building acquired a front porch. Maps of 1904 show the building in its new location, now on an east-west axis, almost exactly where Thayer Dining Hall's entrance is today. Here the building served as a storehouse (J.K. Lord 1928). By 1912 the storehouse appears with a mansard roof and a second story. The College removed the building after 1912 , probably in order to make room to bring Sanborn House back from the Green to a site opposite Fairbanks South in 1913.
E.P. STORRS HOUSE* c.1836 (1929)
The blacksmith Major William Tenney had this two-story brick house built on the south corner of South Main and Lebanon Streets. The Storrs family acquired the building in 1883 and sold it to the federal government in 1928. The government demolished the building and built the Post Office on its site (Barrett, 35).
STRASENBURGH DORMITORY 1958
The dormitory stands at the north end of the old Medical School campus (R.N. Hill, 332) and holds 80 students (Widmayer 1991, 113). Hill dates the building to 1963.
STREETER HALL 1929
Jens Larson designed this dormitory, which bears the name of prominent Trustee General Frank Streeter. The building forms the center of the Gold Coast cluster and connects to Gile and Lord by open arcades; Lord and Streeter are contemporary and together cost $297,000 (Richardson 1932, 776). The Navy V-12 program ran the building as as the ship "U.S.S. Streeter" during W.W.II, one of ten such dormitories (Navy at Dartmouth, 1944). The College remodeled the ground floor in 1989 to include a video room, kitchen and lounge (ORL). The hall held 72 in 18 doubles and 34 singles in 1961 (Office of the Bursar); by 1990 it held the same number in 32 singles, 8 doubles and 8 triples (ORL).
SUDIKOFF HALL 1968 (MENTAL HEALTH)
The building, originally the Mental Health ward of the hospital, houses the computer science department and its laboratories. The building stands near the southwest corner of Maynard and College Streets, on the site of a house at 46 College Street. The building connected to the hospital by tunnel. The College bought the building with the other hospital properties in the late 1980s and remodeled itin 1993 to the designs of R.M. Kliment and Frances Halsband (VSBA source). The College renamed the building during the transformatin for donor Jeffrey Sudikoff '77, then a part-owner of the L.A. Kings. The building now has copper roofing, "industrial" torchieres, and overhead cable channels in the hallways.
SUMMER HOUSE* 1879 (19XX) (GAZEBO)
The Victorian cast-iron gazebo or "iron summer house" (J.K. Lord 1913, 450) stood on the Hill near Bartlett Tower. The gazebo is visible in postcards of Bartlett Tower and a pre-1911 view of the Park in Emerson (Emerson 1911). The College also built a wooden summer house on the other summit in the Park.
-SUMMIT HOUSE* 1860 (1942) (PROSPECT HOUSE)
The Summit House on the top of Mt. Moosilauke was given to the Dartmouth Outing Club in 1920 and served as the College's headquarters on the mountain. Lightning destroyed the building in 1942, helping necessitate the construction of the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge that still stands (Hooke, 191). Only the stone foundations of the building remain.