Where Did it Go?

One academic year after a series of explosions brought down all 650,000 square feet of the old Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, we wondered where all that stuff went. According to Reed Bergwall, the project manager, reusable equipment got salvaged after the last patient was transferred to the new $220 million Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center site in Lebanon:

• Chalk-and whiteboards, furniture, porcelain, housekeeping carts, switch equipment, fire extinguishers, even a tractor-trailer full of fluorescent light bulbs went to College use or to charities and nearby towns.

• You can see some of the green marble from the face of the building in the newly expanded lobby of the Hanover Inn. Other slabs sold by a salvage company are turning up in clocks and paperweights.

• Another salvage company took 96,402 pounds of copper, 131,687 pounds of wire, 13,223 pounds of stainless steel, 19,006 pounds of aluminum, and 639 tons of steel. Bricks, mortar, and concrete got crushed on site and dumped back into the old hospital's foundation hole.

The hospital was dismantled into a clock.