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Ursus:
The Times Record
Hyde School in Bath plans to build new dorm

By Beth Brogan, Times Record Staff
Published: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 2:09 PM EDT

BATH — Pending approval by the Bath Planning Board, Hyde School will build a new $3 million dormitory to replace a 1970s-era residence hall on the private school's High Street campus.

The new, 17,000-square-foot dormitory, to be known as the "New Dorm II," will replace the existing "New Dorm," about 350 feet south of the historic Hyde Mansion.

The existing building is the oldest dormitory on campus, head of school Don MacMillan said Monday.

"It's lived its life," he said. "It's time to replace it."

The older building "suffers from structural, mold and layout problems," according to the site plan application submitted to the Bath Planning Department, and school officials determined that renovations would be costly and would not completely correct the problems.

Also, MacMillan said, Hyde lost dorm space as the school sold buildings across High Street from the campus.

The new dorm would house 56 students, instead of the 32 housed in the existing building, and would include four faculty apartments.

The older dorm "has no historic significance," according to a Sept. 22 email from architect John Whipple of Portland-based Whipple-Callender Architects, and "is far enough from the John Calvin and John Howard-Stevens-designed Hyde Mansion that it has no impact on it."

The Maine Historic Preservation Commission signed off on the plan.

Flooding issues

MacMillan said school representatives met with residents of the Pine Hill neighborhood, near the campus, to discuss previous flooding issues in their homes. More meetings are scheduled.

"Engineers tell me building the dorm would actually help resolve the current problem," he said.

According to Whipple's memo, ledge behind the building would be blasted to direct drainage away from the new dormitory.

A stormwater management report prepared by Pinkham and Greer Consulting Engineers of Falmouth concluded that the project "is not expected to generate any changes to the peak flows, due to large watershed areas and small increase in impervious areas, and should have no adverse effect on adjacent properties, downstream drainage or receiving waters."

That report is undergoing peer review by Topsham engineering firm Wright-Pierce.

The Bath Planning Board will consider a request for site plan approval at a meeting scheduled for 5 p.m. Nov. 1 at City Hall.

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Copyright © 2011 Times Record

Ursus:
From the above article:

The older dorm "has no historic significance," according to a Sept. 22 email from architect John Whipple of Portland-based Whipple-Callender Architects...[/list]
Save, perhaps, for the fond or not so fond memories some must have of the place. I wonder just how many kids were molested here?

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Hey, there's even a YouTube clip depicting it:

Hyde School New Dorm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYqdgBYIBpc[/list]
1:00
Added: 4 years ago
From: EmphasisOne
Views: 5,904"Despite it being called New Dorm, this dorm was the first built on campus. While all the other ones look like hotels, this one reminds me of a prison. This is a tour of it."[/list][/size]

Ursus:
Screen grab pics from, and comments left for, the above YouTube clip, "Hyde School New Dorm":

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rofl? !XD
FarSheerX 4 years ago

room 4 beetch?
quoe1 3 years ago

i like how you yell the NDP!? right in the middle of dissing New Dorm! haha! you contractionist!!
chingscott20 3 years ago

new dorm sucks?
brunettebabie402 3 years ago

duuude who r u?? i hella went? to Bath..graduated 08 mutha fuckkaaaaa!! WHO R U CUZ I PROBABLY FUCKING KNOWW UU DUUDDEEE!!!WTFF hahahahahhaaaaaa
idaMsplur 2 years ago

Derek Corey,? man!
EmphasisOne 2 years ago[/list]
hay... i thought this? is hyde of l'arc :(
jpmap 2 years ago

DEREK? COREY!!! Its ida. clearly. BAHAHAHAHAHAA....
idaMsplur 2 years ago

I go to woodstock and if our? dorms looked half that nice I would bust a nut. Shut the fuck up.
border144 2 years ago

The room you came out of was my room? this year.
PineFilms 2 years ago

Hey, really,,,like prison... but better than nothing,? he? :D
Esstellionn6 2 years ago

Dude I? lived in New Dorm back in 2001. I feel your pain. And not just about the dorm but the whole school man. Glad you survived the torture
The31Driver 1 year ago

DEREK COREYYY? hahhaa
Ms08Winter 11 months ago

Derek corey...? lol
Ms08Winter 11 months ago

Dude, NOT HYDE OF L'ARC~EN~CIEL,? BIG DISSAPOINTMENT
kurniadia 11 months ago

Worst school ever. That place caused me more problems than I had before I went. It's a cult. Keep your kids away from Hyde. The reason 'such a high percentage' of their graduates go to college is because the graduating classes are the 9 kids who couldn't get the hell out. It really? is like a prison.
Milkthief 10 months ago

hahah it's a better dorm now. im in that dorm?
fooseball131 7 months ago

hahaha i live there? in 1990 still looks the same!!!!!
cmschmader 7 months ago

where? is hyde at? and y do u have to go?
YZ125ups 6 months ago[/list]

Xelebes:
Those dorms look about the same quality of dorms you get it  in American college - or at least the american colleges I've seen in American porn. ?_?

Ursus:

--- Quote from: "Xelebes" ---Those dorms look about the same quality of dorms you get it in American college - or at least the american colleges I've seen in American porn. ?_?
--- End quote ---
The New Dorm was and is, to be sure, one of the ugliest buildings known to exist. It's roughly shaped like a "C," with two identical halves each consisting of a central hub (lobby, bathroom, faculty apartment above), with a corridor branching out on each side where the dorm rooms are located. The two halves are skewed in orientation, hence creating that "C" effect.

Two of the wings, one from each hub, meet in the middle. At one point that juncture was blocked off by a wall, when the two halves housed different genders. Later it was left open when the whole of it housed either girls or boys. The bowels of the building, where we students lived, is composed entirely of cinder block construction, in stark contrast to the two faculty apartments above, which were built of a considerably more attractive combination (as per 1970s aesthetics) of wood with lots of windowed space.

Here's an excerpt from a post originally posted in the 'Warning about Hyde School from an educational consultant' thread, by someone who attended Hyde in the early 1980s, when the New Dorm apparently housed all girls. Can't remember why, but for some reason, curtains were prohibited in the dorm rooms themselves:

--- Quote from: "Guest" ---I don't remember much about the faculty there. One year I came back and ED Legg was no longer there. I actually remember him as a pretty astute teacher. The others were not memorable in the least. I better amused by some of the kids that came and went. One genious was this guy who used to disappear each night after we would all "go the the store". Here he was taking his popcorn and soda and camping out behind the "new Dorm". It was a girls dorm and shaped as a horseshoe arround him and no one ever thought to put up drapes. So he could watch all the back room occupants getting ready for bed. I think it went on like that for almost a full year before he was discovered. He did not last long after that, I wonder where he is now? Jail?, Wall Street?, high school gym teacher?
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