At 175 feet, the smokestack attached the College heating plant is the tallest structure on the Dartmouth campus. The tallest occupied building is Baker Library, built in 1928 and rising 124 feet to the top of its weathervane. Baker passes the height of the next-tallest building, the Fairchild Physical Sciences Center, by nearly 50 feet: the height to the top of Fairchild’s parapet is 77 feet. And while you can’t get to the top of the smokestack, you can get a fine view of the campus and surrounding Upper Valley during tours of Baker tower, which proceed up through the library stacks to a walkway just above the clock faces. Tours of the tower are offered during special weekends during the year; see the Baker Library site for details. Other notable tall places on campus are the flyspace arches above The Moore Theater in the Hopkins Center, at 71 feet, and Bartlett Tower, built in 1895 on the site of the Lone Pine above the Bema, also 71 feet tall. For more about Dartmouth’s buildings, visit “Dartmo: The Buildings of Dartmouth College,” an independent site run by 1995 Dartmouth graduate Scott Meacham, and which tracks the buildings of the College.
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