- US US-IaGG Archives/RG-T-4-8-3
- File
- 1936
1 letter. 2 blueprints in oversize file (RG-T Ser. 4.8)
1 letter. 2 blueprints in oversize file (RG-T Ser. 4.8)
Correspondence with SOM and Gilbert Builders re: completion of construction. Includes negotiations over SOM fee.
Correspondence, mostly dealing with mortgages, finances, and land sales. Some correspondence between S. H. Crosby and the farmers, most 1915. Papers have been left in the order in which they came to the archives.
Most letters deal with an 1893 fund raising campaign, directed to the alumni, for the YMCA-YWCA building. Most letters were addressed to W. M. Parsons, '87, Iowa College Financial Agent, 1893-?. Some of the correspondents include: E. E. Bartlett, J. F. Darby, Gershom Hill, J. H. Haines, James L. Hill, Henry Holsman (Architect), S. A. Merrill (comment on Herron, 1898), Clinton Nourse (architect), C. R. Shaatto (?) (comment on Herron, 1898), Emma Wolcott (comment on Herron, 1897).
Correspondence of the committee with alumni donors for the construction of ARH. Most corresondence was of a very routine nature and was discarded. Letters preserved are a selection to indicate exampoes of typical letters, those reflecting problmes fund-fraisers encountered, letters indicating the status of the campaign at a given time or progress on the construction, letters that indicate how the und-raising campaign wa organized. Some of the corrrespondents include: Gershom Hill, Harry Hopkins; S. A. Merrill re: E. H. Taylor as an architect; H. W. Magoun; Jesse Macy; Anne Norris; Merta Matlack.
Deals with construction details for dorms #1-5; also construction of rail spur (M. & St. L., Nov. 1916); strike notice poster, Bailey-Marsh financial problems.
Note Phelps' description of difficult financial condition of the college, April, 1921.
Contracts, deeds, correspondence
Details of financing
Blueprints in oversize file (RG-T Ser. 4.13)
Construction contracts and correspondence
Construction contracts and correspondence (1917) Primarily with Martin Carroll Co., general contractors. Holabird & Roche Architects, Chicago (provided superintendence of construction), S.E. Edwards, Architect.
Contracts with General Education Board: "Conditional Appropriation to Grinnell College" Nov. 1906 (college raise $150,000, Board contribute $50,000) "Conditional Appropriation to Grinnell College" Oct. 1911 (college raise $400,000, Board contribute $100,000) "Conditional Appropriation to Grinnell College" June 1920 (college raise $1,000,000, Board contribute $500,000)
Civil Rights Compliance Agreements