Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, has announced a $25 million gift from alumnus Steven Roth (’62) and his wife, Daryl, for renovation of the Hopkins Center for the Arts.

The largest gift dedicated to the arts in the college’s history helped complete a capital campaign focused on the $89 million expansion and renovation of Dartmouth’s "arts district" which also includes the Hood Museum of Art and the Black Family Visual Arts Center. Another group of alumni committed the final $5 million needed to reach the center’s construction fundraising goal. The 15,000-square-foot expansion, which has been named the Daryl and Steven Roth Wing, will be the central point of entry to the Hopkins Center featuring a state-of-the-art recital hall and performance lab, the center’s first dedicated dance studio, and an accessible, welcoming, landscaped plaza and entrance forum. The project is on track to be finished in 2025.

Steven Roth, who earned his fortune in real estate, and Daryl Roth, an acclaimed Broadway producer, are longtime supporters of the college.

“When you think about where they have devoted their time, energy, their gifts—Daryl in creative projects and young, new artists, Steve in buildings with purpose and effect—they are the perfect pair to invest in this project that marries both,” said Dartmouth College president Sian Leah Beilock.

(Photo credit: Nicole Pereira / Dartmouth)