Brick_Wood_Stone_Land_Water_Measurement - University of Virginia

Brick_Wood_Stone_Land_Water_Measurement
According to the best estimates of the university bursar, proctor, and rector, all the lands, buildings, and other
expenditures for the University of Virginia could be expected to cost $162,364, exclusive of the library and an
observatory. That included the original estimate of 10 pavilions for the professors’ accommodation ($60,000), 6
hotels for dining ($21,000), 104 dormitories ($36,400), 200 acres of land with additional buildings ($10,000), and
contingencies such as leveling the grounds and streets, laying the water pipes, covering roofs with tin instead
of shingles, and numerous other contingencies ($10,000), plus the actual cost above the estimates of about
18 percent ($24,964). An observatory could be built, Jefferson thought, for $10,000 to $12,000 and the Library
House for $40,000 more, thus pushing up the estimate for the entire group of buildings to $214,364.
TJ, Statement of Probable Costs for the Buildings, 28 November 1820, ViU:TJ.
= $214, 364