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Dartmouth College is located in the rural town of Hanover in the Upper Valley of the Connecticut River in the New England state of New Hampshire.Dartmouth's 269-acre (1.09 km 2) campus centered on the Green makes the institution the largest private landowner in the town of Hanover, [1] and its landholdings and facilities are valued at an estimated $419 million. [2]
Dartmouth Hall (1906) was built in brick to replace the 1784 building, which burned in 1904. Dartmouth Hall is the name for two buildings constructed on the same site and same stone foundation at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, since 1784. The current brick building was largely constructed from 1904 to 1906, and extensively ...
The original, historic library building is the Fisher Ames Baker Memorial Library; it opened in 1928 with a collection of 240,000 volumes.The building was designed by Jens Fredrick Larson, modeled after Independence Hall in Philadelphia, and funded by a gift to Dartmouth College by George Fisher Baker in memory of his uncle, Fisher Ames Baker, Dartmouth class of 1859.
In 1819, Dartmouth College was the subject of the historic Dartmouth College case, which challenged New Hampshire's 1816 attempt to amend the college' charter to make the school a public university. An institution called Dartmouth University occupied the college buildings and began operating in Hanover in 1817, though the college continued ...
Public and education facilities at Dartmouth College. Pages in category "Dartmouth College facilities" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
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It is home to the Dartmouth College Big Green men's and women's ice hockey teams. The barrel-vaulted, reinforced concrete arena was designed by renowned architect Pier Luigi Nervi. It was named for Rupert C. Thompson '28, the major benefactor of the project, and replaced Davis Rink, the original "indoor" home of Dartmouth hockey from 1929 to 1975.
Culver Hall in Hanover, New Hampshire, was the first building of the college. (Constructed 1871–72, demolished 1929.) [1] The Morrill Act of 1862 granted federal lands to New Hampshire for the establishment of an agricultural-mechanical college. The state incorporated New Hampshire College in 1866 and opened the college in 1868 in Hanover.