North campus furniture inventory
Large binder, equipment ledger, with 4.5" x 10" card for each item. Gives description of item, value, vendor from whom purchased. Arranged by dorm, then by area (lounge, hostess suite, student rooms, also Cowles dining room).
Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM). Minutes of meetings re: PEC. Grinnell College, SOM, Gilbert Builders, and various sub-contractors.
Correspondence with SOM and Gilbert Builders re: completion of construction. Includes negotiations over SOM fee.
Draining and soil tests, 1970. Gilbert Builders. Correspondence, construction schedule for the entire project, 1971
As each phase of the building project was completed, files for that project were transferred from the active file to an archival file, to be preserved in case any problems arose. Includes weekly and/or monthly construction reports indicating how the construction proceeded; correspondence dealing with special or typical problems (e.g. laminated ceiling beams, soil borings and drainige); financial and cost summaries. Folder 4 contains papers relating to soil borings; laminated ceiling beams, 1968.
Contains documents submitted to Grinnell College in 1973 upon completion of construction. Includes complete accounting of all construction expenses.
Boggs vs. Gilbert Builders & Grinnell College
1970 bond. Hew, Education & Welfare grant, 1967 Correspondence, forms, floor plans Also, Skidmore Owings Merrill correspondence re: various projects, 1967-1969
Papers are in reverse chronological order. L.V. Phelps correspondence with government agencies and Weitz Co., and application forms.
Papers in reverse chronological order. Correspondence with Federal Public Housing Authority; site plans; application forms; contracts; govt. information handbooks.
Heating plant and service bureau
Contains correspondence, bids, costs. Heating Plant, 1963-1968 Service Building, 1967-1968
Men's Quadrangle (North Campus)
Mostly between Bailey-Marsh construction co. and L. V. Phelps. 1917-1918. Deals with labor problems, labor strike (Arpil 1917), effects of war on construction, cost overruns, finances.