- US US-IaGG Archives/RG-T-4-1-6
- File
- 1913-1915
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.
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
Robinson & Parnham (Des Moines) correspondence.
Correspondence re: landscaping and storm sewers. Blueprints located in oversize file (RG-T Ser. 4.11)
Blueprints in oversize file (RG-T Ser. 4.13)
Gardner Cowles Foundation agreement, 1941.; Lambert (U. or Iowa Engineering Dept.) correspondence re: dining hall roof structural problems, 1944; correspondence with vendors, architect, Weitz Construction, 1941-1949; Also: papers from Lyon accoustical engieers; their blueprint is in oversize file (RG-T ser. 4.13). Plumbing contracts, 1941-1942; insurance papers, 1941; Iowa-Des Moines National Bank papers, 1941.
Includes correspondece with Proudfott Rawson and correspondence re: dining hall roof crack and reconstruction, 1945.
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