Dartmouth is renovating a Jens-Larson-designed faculty apartment building (Ledyard) at 19 East Wheelock Street into a dormitory.

Adjacent the dormitory at 17 East Wheelock stands Parkside, still a faculty apartment and an early work of the notable architect Howard Major. Major worked with Charles Rich to design the building during 1912 while Major was a draftsman in Rich’s firm.   Major later wrote on architectural history, including The Domestic Architecture of the Early American Republic: The Greek Revival (1926), and became an architect to society, especially in a large number of Classical and Caribbean designs in Palm Beach, Florida.

[Update 07.25.2005. Post originally stated that 17 East Wheelock was being renovated.]