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Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on University of Virginia Building Expenses, [June 1822]

Notes on University of Virginia Building Expenses

[June 1822]

D.   Average
6 .  pavilions   have cost 52,713
4 . do will cost 33,563
10 86.276 8,628
2 . hotels have cost 8,216
4 . do will cost 16,000
6 24,216 4,036
82 Dorm’s have cost 52,998
27 . Dorm. will cost   11,952
109 64,950 595
175,442
10. pavs   @ 6000   would have cost   60,000
@ 7500 75,000
6. hotels @ 3,000. would have cost 18000
@ 3,500 21,000
109. Dorms @ 400 would have cost 43,600 43,600
121,600   139,600
if the estims of 1819. were   6000.   3000.   & 400,   the buildgs have cost   44. p.c. more
if 7500, 3500 & 400. they have cost 25. p.c. more.

MS (ViU: TJP); entirely in TJ’s hand; undated; endorsed by TJ: “Notes. June. 1822.”

For the estims of 1819, see Arthur S. Brockenbrough’s Cost Estimates for University of Virginia Building Construction, 1 Oct. 1819, enclosure no. 7 in University of Virginia Board of Visitors Report to Literary Fund President and Directors, 4 Oct. 1819.

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Jefferson Papers
Title
Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on University of Virginia Building Expenses, [June 1822]
Author
Jefferson, Thomas
Date
1–3 June 1822

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“Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on University of Virginia Building Expenses, [June 1822],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-18-02-0446. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 18, 1 December 1821 to 15 September 1822, ed. J. Jefferson Looney et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021, p. 511.]