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Top Cottage Contract For Construction

Creator: Henry J. Toombs
Date: July 1, 1938
Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library

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9. All shutters are to be omitted.

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10. The kitchen cabinet requirements are to be simplified.

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11. The finished oak floor is to be #2 red oak 13/16 x 2-1/4.

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12. All storm sash for windows and doors are to be omitted.

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13. The roof is to be covered with 210# asphalt strip shingles, 10 x 36, with plain backs.

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14. All sheet metal is to be plain copper without lead coating.

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15. The insulation is to be omitted.

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16. The painter's finish on all interior plaster walls and ceilings is to be omitted.

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17. The wood floors are to receive one coat of stain, one filler, one shellac and two wax. This omits two coats of floor varnish.

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18. The two kitchen sinks are to be Standard. Plate P-6620.

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19. All trees and stumps which interfere with the construction of the building are to be removed by the owner.

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20. The stone arches over the windows are to be generally like the stone arches in the Nancy Cook house.

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21. The bedroom chimney is to be completely omitted.

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22. All work in connection with the kitchen entrance porch including the cement platform is to be omitted.

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25. The screening of the porch is not to be done but screens are to be provided for the two windows opening out on the porch. Opening Z is not to be screened.

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24. Cash allowances are to be revised as follows:
a. For the purchase of finishing hardware.. ..$125.00
b. For the purchase of lighting fixtures....... $50.00

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25. Ponderosa pine raised wood panels are to be installed at the window reveals.

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26. A forty-gallon electric hot water heater with Hot Point #W 114 or W 97 as manufactured by the Edison General electric Appliance Company or other approved equal is to be furnished and installed in place of the oil burning heater.

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27. Copper pipe type M, hard, conforming to Federal Specifications WWT799 and ASTMB 88-33, and copper soldered fittings are to be used for all cold water supply piping, all hot water supply and circulating lines, except pipes exposed at plumbing fixtures.

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28. All building stone is to be furnished by the owner at the site.

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29. The cash allowance of $160.00 for linoleum includes both furnishing and installation.

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30. The contract is based on earth excavation and if rock is encountered the contract price is to be increased using the following units:
Rock in general excavation, $3.75 per cubic yard additional.
Rock in trench excavation, $5.75 per cubic yard additional.

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31. The contract includes the spreading of the earth and top soil resulting from the excavation to a rough finished grade but it does not include the supplying or spreading of any additional soil nor final preparation for planting.

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32. The contract does not include any work in connection with walks, driveways retaining walls.

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ADDENDA "A" - House for the President Sheet #3

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ALTERNATES

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1. If sand-finished, plaster is used for the third coat in the living room and entry instead of smooth plaster, there will be no change in price.

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2. If flat diamond mesh metal lath weighting not less than 3.4 pounds per yard is used in place of rock lath. Add One Hundred Sixty Eight Dollars ($l68.00).

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF the parties hereto have executed this Agreement, the day and year first above written.

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Franklin Roosevelt OWNER

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ADAMS-FABER COMPANY
Secretary

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