New Dorm Named
DARTMOUTH'S NEW DORMITORY, to be opened in the fall on the north side of Tuck Drive, will be named Butterfield Hall in honor of the late Dr. Ralph Butterfield, 1839, of Kansas City, Mo., who left the funds for Butterfield Museum which was torn down to provide a site for Baker Memorial Library.
The new Butterfield Hall will provide rooming accommodations for 59 men in 15 double suites and 29 single rooms. Adjoining Russell Sage Hall on the northwest, it will be a three-storied structure of corresponding architecture. Features of the residence hall will be a social room, a pingpong room, and ski lockers in the basement. Two suites on each floor will have panelled studies.
Dr. Butterfield died in Boston in 1892 and in his will made Dartmouth College the residuary legatee of an estate of approximately $140,000, accumulated as a physician and merchant. Following his graduation from Dartmouth in 1839 he received his A.M. and M.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.
