Records, 1932-1965 (inclusive).

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Records, 1932-1965 (inclusive).

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Includes correspondence, faculty minutes, construction records, and financial records pertaining to new buildings and records of alterations on older structures. Also includes files on projects that were not completed. Records document the University's efforts to remodel and expand facilities after the Depression and World War II. Buildings represented include Accelerator Building, Administration Building, Animal Behavior Laboratory, Charles E. Merriam Center for Public Administration, Charles Stewart Mott Building, Cummings Life Sciences Center, Eye Research Laboratory, faculty housing, Billings Hospital, Chicago Home for Incurables, Chicago Lying-In Hospital, Franklin McLean Memorial Research Institute, Goldblatt Memorial Hospital, Laird Bell Law Quadrangle, Midway Studios, National Opinion Research Center, Research Institutes, Graduate Student Residences, Phemister Hall, Pierce Hall, Woodward Court, and University High School. Collection also contains records of the University Consulting Architects, Emery Jackson (1929-1948) and J. Lee Jones (1948-1964).

11 linear ft.

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University of Chicago Library

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University of Chicago. Dept. of Buildings and Grounds.

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Before Lyman Flook’s appointment as Superintendent of Construction in 1927, building activities at the University were directed and supervised by the Board of Trustees’ Committee on Buildings and Grounds and the University Business Manager. The Trustees’ Committee was among the first standing committees appointed by the President of the Board. Composed of the President of the University, the President and Secretary of the Board, and five Trustees, it held its first meeting in Octobe...

University of Chicago.

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Most of the records in the collection pertain to the $400,000 raised by the American Baptist Education Society in 1889-1890 in order to obtain a 600,000 grant from John D. Rockefeller for the creation of an endowment for the University of Chicago. The first volume in the inventory, Record of Pledges for the University of Chicago, contains an alphabetical numbered listing of subscribers, amounts pledged, and payments made through 1906. The subscription forms and letters (1:4-13) are numbered to c...