The Hermitage, Home of Old HickoryHorn, Stanley F.
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The Hermitage, Home of Old Hickory
Horn, Stanley F.
Hermitage (Hermitage, Tenn.); Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 -- Homes and haunts -- Tennessee -- Hermitage
Article 2nd. The house to be rebuilt in the same order that it was
before, with four rooms and passage below and four rooms and passage
above. The garret rooms and the stairs from the garret to the walk on
the top of the house to be finished in a plain way. The walk on the
house to be the same mentioned in the plan and finished with a neat
and appropriate banister or railing. The joists in all the different
rooms to be bridged.
Article 3rd. Here follows an estimate of work and cost, and in case
any of it should not be done or should be abandoned a deduction is to
be made from the aforesaid sum of $3,800:
Bill of Carpenter’s Work
2 cellar doors and frames, at $3 each $ 6.00
40 lintels for doors and windows at 25c 10.00
Framing 76 sqr joists at 75c per square 57.00
830 feet of washboards at 11c per foot 85.00
53½ sqr of poplar flooring at $2.50 per square 133.75
8 chimney pieces at $10 each 80.00
13 doors, cased with pilasters, at $12 156.00
2 large folding doors, 10 or 12 feet, at $30 60.00
2 front doors at $30 60.00
8 windows, recessed pilasters to casing, at $10 80.00
9 ” not recessed, at $6 54.00
17 double boxed window frames at $4.50 76.50
17 pair of Venetian shutters at $6 102.00
408 lights of sash, 10×14 glass, at 10c 40.80
4 garret windows complete at $8 32.00
32 sqr of framing, sheeting and shingling at $2.50 80.00
128 feet of cornice, at $1 128.00
50 feet of verge boards, 12½c 6.25
Framing and laying open floor and ceiling and hand-rail 140.00
and balustrading walk on house, 60×12 or 14 feet
Trap door, steps in garret and skylight 15.00
1 circular staircase, two stories high 260.00
1 private staircase 30.00
4 presses at $12 48.00
First story of front porch with 6 columns, etc. 256.00
Second ” ” ” 75.00
One back portico 40.00
Work on Wing
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