Housing Project

PLANS for a $600,000 housing project, sponsored jointly by Dartmouth College and the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, were announced late in February. Thirty duplex houses, providing living quarters for sixty families, will be constructed on the west side of Lyme Road, just north of the golf course.

The development is intended to meet a long-standing need for moderate-cost rental housing for Dartmouth faculty and staff members and for the hospital's resident staff and personnel. It is projected on a self-supporting, self-liquidating basis. Half of the houses are expected to be ready by September 1 and the remainder by December.

The one-story, duplex houses will be of Techbuilt design. Each family unit will have a living-dining room, two bedrooms, kitchen, bath, basement and carport. The general contract has been awarded to the Trumbull-Nelson Company of Hanover, and work has already started at the old Record Farm property. In addition to the houses, streets, lights, sewers and necessary landscaping will be provided.

In announcing the joint housing project, Richard W. Olmsted '32, business manager of the College, said: "The development should afford considerable relief for both the College's and the hospital's staff housing problems, especially in the light of the imminent closing of Wigwam Circle and Sachem Village. We believe the plans will result in housing which is comfortable and attractive. We are particularly pleased to have developed plans which were favorably received by the Town Planning Board and appreciate its suggestions, as well as those we have had from both precinct and town officials."

The Hitchcock Hospital, which has greatly enlarged its staff in recent years, has been hard pressed to find local housing for residents, interns and other personnel with families. The Lyme Road development will help to meet an acute need of Hanover's famed medical center.