Parkhurst Hall, Dartmouth's central administration building, houses the offices of the President, the Provost, the Executive Vice President and the Dean of the College. According to Robert B. Graham's 1990 book "The Dartmouth Story," funds for the building were donated by Emma and Lewis Parkhurst 1878, in memory of their son, Wilder Lewis Parkhurst 1907, who died during the summer after his first year at the College. Parkhurst was completed in 1911.
Built in 1902, McNutt Hall is the home of Dartmouth's undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid offices, as well as the offices of the Registrar and of Institutional Diversity and Equity. It was originally the home of the Tuck School of Business, but was renovated and renamed McNutt Hall in 1930, honoring Randolph McNutt 1871, a successful New York businessman. McNutt Hall is also the site of a major development in computing. In 1940, Professor George Stibitz performed the first remote operation of computer, sending math problems from a teletype in McNutt to a computer a Bell Labs in New York, and receiving the answers to the problems in seconds.
Blunt Alumni Center was dedicated in 1980, honoring Carleton Blunt 1926. Housing the offices of Alumni Relations and Conferences & Special Events, Blunt includes Crosby House, originally built in 1810 and named for Dr. Dixi Crosby, a Dartmouth Medical School professor and founder of Hanover's first hospital. It was in Crosby House in the 1850s that Dr. Crosby and chemistry professor Oliver Hubbard conducted experiments that proved the viability of refined petroleum as a fuel for illuminating lamps, setting the stage for the modern-day oil industry.
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