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Thomas Jefferson’s Estimate of University of Virginia Building Costs, [before 21 July 1821]
Estimate of University of Virginia Building Costs
[before 21 July 1821]
| Application of the funds. | ||||||
| Funds of the University | 1820. | D | ||||
| Apr. 1. 1st loan | 40,000 | Apr. | Debts | 10,000 | ||
| Oct. do | 20,000 | Dec. 31. | To compleat the 7. Pavilions & 31. Domitories first built | 18,000 | ||
| Caps & bases of 60 Tuscan & 6. Doric columns | 766. | |||||
| the 1st half for the 3. pavilions & 24. Dormitors begun this year. | 13,800 | |||||
| the 1st half for the 3. Hotels & 25. Dormits begun this year. | 9,500 | |||||
| 2d Payment to Dr Cooper | 750. | |||||
| Residuary exps of this year, Bursar, Proctor, laborers, contingencies | 3,500. | |||||
| Interest on the 1st loan | 2,000. | |||||
| Balance remaining on hand | 1,684 | |||||
| 60,000 | 60,000 | |||||
| 1821. | 1821. | |||||
| Jan. 1. Balance | 1,684 | Apr. 1. | 17. Marble capitels from Italy. cost 1632 D freight 152 D | 1,784. | ||
| Annuity | 15,000 | Dec. 31. | 2d half of the 3. Pavils & 24. Dorms begun last year | 13,800 | ||
| Oct. 1. 2d loan | 60,000 | 2d half of the 3. Hotels & 25. Dorms begun last year | 9,500 | |||
| Caps & Bases of 60. Tuscan columns | 697 | |||||
| Caps & Bases of 21. Doric do & Bases of 17. Ion. & Corinthn do | 1218 | ) | 1,701. | |||
| 291 | ||||||
| 192 | ||||||
| 3. Hotels & 25 Dorms on West street to be built this year | 19,000. | |||||
| Library. walls & terrasses 1,050,000.1 bricks & stone work | 14,452. | |||||
| Residuary expences of this year | 3,500. | |||||
| Interest on 120,000.D. | 4,500. | |||||
| Balance remaining on hand | 7,750 | |||||
| 76,684. | 76,684. | |||||
| 1822. | 1822. | |||||
| Jan. 1. Balance | 7,750 | Jan. 1. | Library. 10 Marble capitels. cost 316.302 freight 32 D each. | 4,876. | ||
| Annuity | 15,000 | 8. half do 158.15 16 | ||||
| Arrears | 3,897 | Dec. 31. | roof, windows, doors, floors, stairs, bases | 10,871. | ||
| Walls of backyards, Necessaries, gardens. 100,000. bricks | 1,200 | |||||
| Residuary expences of this year | 2,500 | |||||
| Interest on 120,000. D | 7,200 | |||||
| 26,647 | 26,647. | |||||
| 1823. | 1823. | |||||
| Jan. 1. Annuity | 15,000 | Jan. 1. | Balance in arrear. | 3,897. | ||
| 1824. | Dec. 31. | Library. Interior | 13,476 | |||
| Jan. 1. Annuity | 15,000 | Residuary expences of this year | 2,500 | |||
| Interest on 120,000 | 7,200 | |||||
| 30,000. | leaves surplus 2.927 + | 27,073 | ||||
| Subscriptions due | ||||||
| Oct. 2. 1820. | 24,877. | |||||
MS (ViU: TJP); entirely in TJ’s hand; undated, with conjectural date based in part on TJ’s apparently revised plan to request a $30,000 loan from the Literary Fund on 21 July 1821, rather than the $60,000 loan budgeted here for receipt on 1 Oct. 1821.
On this document’s verso TJ detailed a schedule for repayment of $120,000 in loans from the Literary Fund to the University of Virginia at 6 percent interest, calculating that with annual payments of $12,500 beginning on 1 Jan. 1825, the debt could be extinguished with a final payment of $9,138 on 1 Jan. 1839 (MS in ViU: TJP; entirely in TJ’s hand; undated).
1. Above this number TJ erased an illegible number followed by “bricks.”
2. Reflecting new estimates for the cost of stone carving in Italy that TJ received on 1 Oct. 1821 in a 7 July 1821 letter from Thomas Appleton, above this number TJ added “530.” He similarly revised the total in the final column to “(8048),” and in the line below he inserted “280” above “158.15.”
Index Entries
- Appleton, Thomas; and capitals for University of Virginia search
- Brockenbrough, Arthur Spicer; as University of Virginia proctor search
- building materials; bricks search
- Central College; subscription for search
- Cooper, Thomas (1759–1839); University of Virginia professorship proposed for search
- Garrett, Alexander; as University of Virginia bursar search
- interest; TJ’s calculations of search
- Italy; marble from search
- Italy; stonecutters from search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Writings; Estimate of University of Virginia Building Costs search
- Literary Fund; and annuity for University of Virginia search
- Literary Fund; and loans for University of Virginia search
- marble; Carrara search
- privies; at University of Virginia search
- Virginia, University of; Administration and Financial Affairs; funding for search
- Virginia, University of; Administration and Financial Affairs; TJ’s Estimate of University of Virginia Building Costs search
- Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; building costs search
- Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; capitals for search
- Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; doors search
- Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; dormitory rooms search
- Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; hotels search
- Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; pavilions search
- Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; privies search
- Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; roofs search
- Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; Rotunda (library) search
- Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; stairs search
- Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; stonemasons search
- Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; wages for workmen search
- Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; walls and fences at search
- Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; windows search
- Virginia, University of; Faculty and Curriculum; faculty compensation search
- Virginia, University of; Faculty and Curriculum; T. Cooper as proposed professor search