Documenting the American South Logo
Legend Informational Note
See the Page Image
     Mouseover Available
Title: List of Building Specifications and Costs, Compiled by Alexander J. Davis for David L. Swain, [1844?]: Electronic Edition.
Author: Davis, Alexander Jackson, 1803-1892
Funding from the University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supported the electronic publication of this title.
Text transcribed by Bari Helms
Images scanned by Bari Helms
Text encoded by Risa Mulligan
First Edition, 2005
Size of electronic edition: ca. 12K
Publisher: The University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2005

No Copyright in US

The electronic edition is a part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill digital library, Documenting the American South.
Languages used in the text: English
Revision history:
2005-06-29, Risa Mulligan finished TEI/XML encoding.
Source(s):
Title of collection: University of North Carolina Papers (#40005), University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of document: List of Building Specifications and Costs, Compiled by Alexander J. Davisfor David L. Swain, [1844?]
Author: [Alexander Jackson Davis]
Description: 2 pages, 2 page images
Note: Call number 40005 (University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Editorial practices
The text has been encoded using the recommendations for Level 5 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines.
Originals are in the University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Original grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been preserved.
Page images can be viewed and compared in parallel with the text.
Any hyphens occurring in line breaks have been removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to the preceding line.
All quotation marks, em dashes and ampersand have been transcribed as entity references.
All double right and left quotation marks are encoded as ".
All single right and left quotation marks are encoded as '.
All em dashes are encoded as —.
Indentation in lines has not been preserved.

For more information about transcription and other editorial decisions, see the section Editorial Practices.
List of Building Specifications and Costs, Compiled by Alexander J. Davis for David L. Swain , [1844?]
Davis, Alexander Jackson, 1803-1892



Page 1

Hon. D. L. Swain :

I will do the whole work, or any parts of the work, agreeable to the prices herewith transmitted.

F. L. Walthall



Basement Story as per drawing. No. 1.
9 windows and doors at $7 . . . . . $63.00
partitions . . . . . 15.00
1 floor complete . . . . . 114.00
4 stone window sills & two door sills at $3 each 18.00
Excavation, and spreading dirt to form terace 50.00
40 pirch of rock at $4 160.00
50.000 brick at $4.50 pr. thousand 225.00
First floor, as per drawing no. 2.
1 floor complete . . . . . 114.00
framing partition and timber . . . . . 20.00
10 small plasters . . . . . 10.00
4 partition doors complete at $8 32.00
8 Eighteen light windows of 10 & 12 glass complete at $10 80.00
1 flight of stairs . . . . . 25.00
10 stone window sills at $2.50 . . . . . 25.00
40.000 brick at $4.50 . . . . . 180.00
6.00 yards of plastering at 25 cents pr. yd. 150.00
3 stone steps to assend terace in front 12.00
2 stone steps at front door 12.00
Second story, as pr. drawing no. 3.
1 floor complete . . . . . 114.00
framing partition and timber 12.00
8 plasters and timber 15.00 . . . . .
3 partition at $8 . . . . . 24.00

Page 2
[Second story, as pr. drawing no. 3.]
8 fifteen light windows, 10 & 12 glass $10 80.00
1 flight of stairs . . . . . 25.00
10 stone window sills at $2.50 . . . . . 25.00
40.000 brick at $4.50 180.00
420 yards plastering 25 cents 105.00
80 feet of mud corner at 75 cents pr foot 60.00
Small steps to assend rostrum 5.00
Third story, as per drawing No. 4.
1 floor complete . . . . . 114.00
framing partitions of plank, to Shebure Co, and plank 60.00
Shelving, and plank complete, in Library 200.00
10 pilasters complete . . . . . 20.00
8 twelve light windows of 10 &12 glass— complete 80.00
10 stone window sills at $2.50 25.00
38.000 brick at $4.50 . . . . . 171.00
390 yards of plastering at 25 cents 97.00
80 feet of stoco cornice at 50 cts. 40.00
80 feet of wood do. at $1 80.00
framing roof complete, as per section, No 5 & 6 175.00
Tuining at $12 pr. square . . . . . 240.00
Lanthorn as per sections 5 & 6 complete 200.00
front door complete, as per drawing No. 8 125.00
172 feet of cornicing, as pr. drawing No 9. at $1.75 301.00
painting inside and out, complete 250.00
coping of stone, on parapet wall, as pr drawing no. 7 24.00
4152.00
2
8304.00
Repairs to Old Building
2 ornamented doors as per drawing No. 7 50.00
380 feet cornicing to the old buildings at $250 950.00
portico in centre of East front No 7 150.00
$9.454.00