Housing Units

HOUSING FACILITIES for married veterans at Dartmouth will be nearly doubled with the addition this summer of 104 temporary family dwelling units which have been assigned to the College by the Federal Public Housing Authority. These units, supplementing the 48 small prefabricated houses being erected by the College in Sachem Village, will be moved to Hanover from other points in New England where they were used by war workers. They will be located on the Hitchcock Estate, southwest of Thayer School, and are expected to be ready for the opening of the summer term in July.

The FPHA dwellings will be of very plain design and will consist of 80 singleroom units with bath and kitchenette facilities, sixteen two-bedroom units, and eight with three bedrooms. All will be onestory frame structures with individual heaters. They will be moved and re-erected by the FPHA after the College has prepared the land with service lines. The College will administer the development on behalf of the government, which has announced that rentals will be moderate.

The prefabricated houses of Sachem Village which were expected to be ready for the March term will not all be finished when classes start on March 11. The College plans to house the married veterans and their wives in a non-housekeeping dormitory, probably Lord Hall, until the Sachem Village dwellings are ready.

By adding Sachem Village to the space in Middle Fayerweather and South Fayerweather Halls the College next term will be able to provide housing for about no married veterans. These facilities have enabled it to take care of all but a small number of married students seeking rooms or apartments for the March term. Other College property available to married veterans has greatly diminished because of the growing need for quarters for returning members of the faculty.