SUMMER BUILDING OPERATIONS KEEP HANOVER BUSY
The village of Hanover is experiencing what has become its customary summer activity of building operations. On the site of the old Hitchcock House, which more recent alumni will recall as the home of former professor "Ben" Marshall, the college's newest dormitory, "Russell Sage Hall," is nearing completion and will be ready for occupancy in September. This building corresponds architecturally to Topliff Hall and Hitchcock Hall and will be an attractive addition to the college plant. Beyond question it is the most finely situated of the dormitories, offering magnificent views down Tuck Drive to the Connecticut River and the Vermont Hills.
On Memorial Field, where formerly the ungainly wooden bleachers served to seat the football crowds, work is rushing along on the new concrete stand and Memorial Gateway to the field. What appears as a maze of vividly painted steel girders is in place with a horde of laborers swarming up and around and about it.
Just a few hundred feet from this scene of activity the heating plant is undergoing a metamorphosis, rearing itself somewhat from its former squatting position in order to accommodate itself to the consumption of oil in place of the coal, upon which it has fed for years. Three of the boilers which have been used for a quarter of a century are being removed to make room for two larger boilers of more modern design, making seven boilers to be operated next year. This has necessitated raising the roof of the building about 12 feet. Alterations to the building made necessary by the setting of the two new boilers are in charge of the Rowe Construction Company of Woodsville, N. H., which is also in charge of the building of the new dormitory. The Con Oil Tank Company of Boston has the contract for the construction of the oil storage tanks and the 300-horsepower boilers are being furnished by the Dillon Boiler Works of Fitchburg, Mass.
Rope Ferry Road is another active scene of building operations, with houses in construction on the west side of the road for L. Dean Pearson of the Department of English, Professor David Lambuth of the Department of English, and Professor Arthur H. Basye of the Department of History. On South Park Street further building is in progress where a home is being erected for Professor Harold R. Bruce of the Department of Political Science, Thayer Lodge is undergoing alterations, and a new tea house is rumored for the convenience of the apartment district. Work is also to be begun soon on a residence on East Wheelock Street, south of Park Street, for W. P. Farnsworth '25.
New houses are also being completed on Balch Street for Professors R. C. Nemiah and J. W. Tanch, while on School Street Extension the new home of Professor Winans will shortly be ready for occupancy.
In addition to these operations much is being done in the way of alterations and repairs. The old Leeds house, next to the White Church is being made into an apartment house for two families, and the house formerly owned by the late Dean Emeritus Charles F. Emerson has become the property of one of the newer fraternities and is being remodelled for fraternity purposes. Next door to the old Emerson house and at the head of Webster Avenue is the new Kappa Kappa Kappa house awaiting now only furnishing and the return of the chapter members to begin its period of activity. Announcement has also been made that work will shortly be begun on the new fifty-room addition to the Hanover Inn, which is expected to be in readiness for opening May 1, 1924.
