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Chapter 9
The Building Campaign of 1824
Documentary History of the Construction of the Buildings at the University
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Piper Tract
During the summer and fall of 1824 Perry also was involved in the university's negotiation
and purchase (for about $450) of a four-acre tract of land lying immediately to the north of
the Rotunda on the Three Notch'd Road. The tiny tract was clipped off a larger tract owned
by Daniel A. Piper, who had installed the gutters and drain pipes at Pavilions I, IV, VI, VII,
and repaired the pipes at Pavilion III, and his wife Mary A. Frances, who had sold an
adjacent tract to the university the preceding April.[641] The Three Notch'd Road, which ran
from Charlottesville to Rockfish Gap and which served as the outer boundary for the April
purchase, passed by the university in a more or less northwest to southeast direction. The
new agreement with the Pipers permitted Jefferson to re-establish the bed of the public road
along the new outlying boundary line, causing it to pass parallel to the northern side of the
university (see appendix G).[642]
642. See Brockenbrough's agreement with Daniel A. and Mary A. Frances Piper, 22
September, Allen Dawson's Plat of Land, 24 September, Brockenbrough's Statement of
Funds, 30 September, Brockenbrough and Daniel Piper, Contract, 8 October, Daniel A. and
Mary A. Frances, Deed, 8-9 October 1824, all in ViU:PP, and Jefferson's Plat of Land, ca 8
October 1824, in ViU:TJ; see also #20-02 in Lasala, "Thomas Jefferson's Designs for the
University of Virginia." The visitors ratified both purchases at their meeting on 4 October
(see Board of Visitors Minutes, that date, in PPAmP:UVA Minutes).
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Chapter 9
The Building Campaign of 1824
Documentary History of the Construction of the Buildings at the University
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