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Thomas Jefferson’s Estimate of University of Virginia Building Costs, [ca. 1 April 1821]

Estimate of University of Virginia Building Costs

[ca. 1 Apr. 1821]

Funds of the University.							Application of the Funds.						Balance on hand at the close of every year
				D							D
1820.	Apr.		1st loan	40,000		1820.	Apr.		Debts		10,000
	Oct.		do	20.000		1821.	Jan.	1.	To compleat the 7. pavilions & 31. Dormitories first built.		18,000
1821.	Jan.	1.	Annuity	15,000	.				1st half of the 3. pavils & 24. Dorms begun 1820.		13,800
									1st half of the 3. hotels & 25. Dorms E. street begun 1820.		9,500
									Dr Cooper’s 2d payment		750
									residuary expences of the year 1820.		3,500
									Interest on the 1st loan for the year 1820.		2,000
				75,000							57,550		17,450
1821.	Oct.	1.	2d loan	60,000		1821.	Apr.	1.	17. Marble capitels from Italy. cost 1632. D freight 152. D say		1,800
1822.	Jan.	1.	Annuity	15,000	.	1822.	Jan.	1.	2d half of the 3. pavils & 24. Dorms begun in 1820.		13,800
									2d half of the 3. hotels & 25. Dorms on E. street begun in 1820.		9,500
									walls of gardens. backyards, necessaries. 100,000. bricks		1,000
									3. Hotels & 25. Dormitories on W. street to be built in 1821.		19,000
									Library. walls 1,200,000. bricks		12,000
									roof, windows, doors, floors, stairs.	suppose	12,000
									residuary expences of the year 1821.		3,500
									Interest on 120,000. D for 1821.		7,200
				75,000							79,800	.	12,650
1823.	Jan.	1.	Annuity	15,000		1823.	Jan.	1.	Library. inside	suppose	12,000
									D D
									10. marble Capitels cost 374. freight 46. each		4,200
									6. do half do 187. 23. each		1,260	.
									residuary expences of the year 1822		2,500	.
									Interest on 120,000.D. for 1822.		7,200	.
											27,160		490.
				165,000							164,510

MS (ViU: TJP); in TJ’s hand; undated, with conjectural date based on internal reference to ordering capitals on 1 Apr. 1821 (for the actual order, see TJ to Thomas Appleton, 16 Apr. 1821 [first letter]); endorsed on verso by Arthur S. Brockenbrough: “Mr Jeffersons estimates of the cost of the buildings &c.”

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: Thomas Jefferson’s Estimate of University of Virginia Building Costs, [ca. 1 April 1821]
Author: Jefferson, Thomas
Date: 10 April 1820

Reference

Cite as: “Thomas Jefferson’s Estimate of University of Virginia Building Costs, [ca. 1 April 1821],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-17-02-0073. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 17, 1 March to 30 November 1821, ed. J. Jefferson Looney et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020, pp. 75–77.]