Improve Inn Area

In a move to improve the area behind the Hanover Inn, work has been started on the lot between Main and College Streets to provide a landscaped terrace immediately adjoining the Inn and a new parking site below it to the south. Plans for remodeling the area are primarily the result of the annoyance caused to guests of the Inn by trucks and other traffic behind the hotel and the stores along the east side of Main Street.

The entrance between Campion's and the Typewriter Shop on the east side of Main Street will be retained but will swing sharply to the right upon reaching the new terrace and will lead down to the lower parking level. The College Street driveway next to the Thayer School will be closed and a new entrance on that street will be opened nearer Lebanon Street. Lattice fences will separate the terrace from the public parking lot, which will be under the jurisdiction of the Precinct Commissioners of Hanover. The small building behind the Inn, now housing two small shops, will probably be made over into a game-house or ski shack.

Work on the interior of the Inn has been going on for the past month, with changes made in the lobby, kitchen, office, basement, and sitting rooms. Many of the guest rooms will be renovated in the near future, and furnishings and lighting fixtures will be improved in the main rooms and halls.

While work goes ahead on the Inn, excavation has been started for the new upperclass dining hall south of Massachusetts Row. Plans for the foundations and first floor have been completed by J. Fredrick Larsen, the College architect, and construction of these parts of the building is expected to be finished before winter arrives. Construction will be resumed early in the spring so that the completed building will be ready next fall.