Choate House Ready

DARTMOUTH'S historic Choate House, which was moved to a new North Main Street location last year and has since been remodeled to provide guest facilities for two visiting professors, will have its first occupant during the Spring Term.

Dr. Herbert C. Morton of the Brookings Institution, who will be Visiting Lecturer in Business Administration at the Tuck School, and Mrs. Morton will be Choate House's first residents under the new plan.

Choate House dates from 1786 and has associated with it such famous men as Daniel Webster, Rufus Choate, President James Monroe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Walt Whitman, and General William Tecumseh Sherman. An Accessions Committee, named to restore and furnish it in its original 18th century style, is using some pieces from the College Collection but most of the present furnishings are of a later or even modern period. The Committee is interested in acquiring American or English furniture of the period from 1750 to 1800 and has prepared the following list for alumni and others who might wish to make gifts to the College:

FIRST-FLOOR APARTMENT : LIVING Room - Desk, drop leaf or Pemberton table, three occasional or candle stands coffee table, highboy, sofa, two arm chairs, one chair. Hall - Settee, grandfather clock, card table. Dining Room — Dining table, six to eight dining chairs (a set or similar), sideboard, serving table Bedroom No. 1 - Two four-poster beds, two candle stands, two bureaus (similar), chest on chest, two chairs, two mirrors. Dressing Room - Two chairs, dressing table, one mirror. Bedroom No. 2 - Two four-poster beds, two bureaus, two chairs, candle stands, two mirrors.

SECOND-FLOOR APARTMENT: LivingRoom - Desk, large table/desk, highboy, four occasional tables, four chairs, sofa, three arm chairs. Vestibule - Card table. Dining Room - Dining table, sideboard, board,serving table, six to eight chairs. Bedroom No. 1 — Two four-poster beds, two bureaus, two mirrors, two chairs. Bedroom No. 2 - Two four-poster beds, two bureaus, one occasional table, two mirrors, one chair.

Rugs of various sizes are needed, especially semi-antique Orientals or large hooked rugs in good repair. Quilts or coverlets in good repair are also needed. Curtains are being provided by the College.

Persons interested in making gifts are invited to send descriptions of the furniture to Mr. Richard W. Olmsted, Business Manager of the College, Box 883, Hanover, N. H. 03755. These offers will be reviewed by the Accessions Committee. It is urged that no furniture be sent to the College before definite acceptance by the Committee has been indicated.

Like Choate House, Webster Cottage has also been moved to the other side of North Main Street to make room for the new Kiewit Computer Center, now under construction. Webster Cottage and Choate House face each other at right angles to Cutter Hall. The three buildings form an attractive unit, with lawn space in the middle and North Main Street forming the open end of a small quadrangle. Webster Cottage will be restored as close as possible to its original 1780 state, and tentative plans call for housing Daniel Webster items there.