Consists of papers dealing with the construction of campus buildings between 1914 and 1975. Many papers on financing of earlier buildings (pre ca. 1940) are in series 6 (Grinnell College foundation), those on financing of the Physical Eduation Complex and Norris are in this series.
Henry Holsman (Chicago) to President Main and to W. Brainerd (Boston)
Cross-Wells Co., Chicago. Contracts, proposals, correspondence.
Burley and Co, Chicato. China, glassware, etc.
Correspondence with Bailey-Marsh Builders (Minneapolis) and S. H. Crosby. 2 blueprints are located in the Oversize file (RG-T Ser. 4.1)
Primarily correspondence between Bailey-Marsh and vendors. Includes worker accident reports.
Includes a 1913 letter from Crosby (Secretary of Grinnell Foundation) to Pres. Main on Grinnell Foundation and financing the cottages; Dean Fanny Gates's correspondence.
Most is between Dean Fanny Gates and vendors, a selection that indicates the types of details with which the Dean of Women dealt.
Darwiin Co., Des Moines, 1915. Furnishing for Main Hall Commons Room Stickely Bros. Co., Grand Rapids, 1915
Vacuum cleaners; dining hall chairs; laundry machines; Colonial Hospital Supply; Pearlman & co., lighting
Plumbing and heating equipment for dorms 1-3. 1914-1915; elevator,; Kimball Bros., Council Bluffs, 1914-1915; 2 blueprints in oversize file (RG-T ser.4.1)
Stout was General Superintendent of Construction. Includes dispute over Stout's pay rate. Contractor's bids, Tabels on 2 blueprint sheets located in Oversize file #1 (RG-T Ser. 4.1)
Men's Quadrangle (North Campus)