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G1973-05_06_065-p90-91.pdf
A letter from George M. Sparks to Marion Smith, Chairman of the University System of Georgia Board of Regents. The letter is a report telling that the materials and funds needed to move forward with alterations to the Ivy Street Garage (Kell Hall)…

G1973-05_06_065-p92.pdf
A letter from George M. Sparks to Marion Smith, the chairman of the University System of Georgia Board of Regents. The letter is a progress report in the search for building materials to use in alterations to the Ivy Street Garage (Kell Hall). Sparks…

G1973-05_06_065-p93-34.pdf
A letter from George M. Sparks to Bill Clemence of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Surplus Property Division. The letter seems to be a follow up to a telephone conversation between the two, and concerns the ongoing search for building…

G1973-05_06_065-p95.pdf
A letter from George M. Sparks to Tucker and Howell informing them that the school with be contracting with a different construction company for the conversion of the Ivy Street Garage (Kell Hall) to a suitable school building.

World War II Surplus Assimilated
George M. Sparks wrote this letter to the chairman of the Georgia Board of Regents. The letter explains that the U.S. military has surplus laboratory equipment leftover from the technological buildup catalyzed by the war effort. Sparks outlines plans…

Budgeting Limitations of the Ivy Street Building Conversion
This letter from Georgia State University to architect firm Tucker and Howell, was intended to express the budgeting limitations of the Ivy Street Building conversion after it became evident some parties wanted quote a construction cost of $216,000.…

Request for support for further land acquisition on Ivy Street
This letter is from George M. Sparks to Secretary Siebert of the Georgia Board of Regents. The letter outlines how student tuition will be leveraged to secure additional land to protect ongoing investment in the Ivy Street Garage building. Sparks…

Progress Report on Ivy Street Garage Conversion
This correspondence is a progress report on the conversion of the Ivy Street Garage into a building for use by Georgia State University. The report details both the prices for the construction materials used and the place from which these materials…

The Troops Come Home to Ivy Street
This is a letter to Colonel Ed Green from George M. Sparks requesting assistance with securing building materials for GSU land acquisitions from surplus Army construction. Sparks had established a working relationship the U.S. military based on a…

Ivy Street Construction logistics
This letter is a record of correspondence between George M. Sparks and the Board of Regents, it explains ongoing delays with real estate improvements being made to university properties on Ivy Street. Sparks is explaining the circumstances behind his…

Ivy Street Garage and GSU at the end of WWII
This letter was written by George McIntosh Sparks, and intended to relate the budgeting projections for the purchase of land adjacent to the Ivy Street Garage. The letter was addressed to the Board of Regents and references the financial impact of…

G1973-05_06_065-p136-137.pdf
In this letter, Director Sparks writes to Mr. George A. Levy of Anderson, Clayton & Co. about a recently renovated state-owned building that Anderson, Clayton & Co. might be able to occupy. The reason Director Sparks is informing them of this is…

G1973-05_06_065-p138-140.pdf
This letter is a progress report on the prospective work to be done on the Bolling Jones (Kell Hall) building. Dr. Sparks states what the $35,000 budget will go towards including the heating, air-circulation, electrical, and lab equipment for the…

G1973-05_06_065-p141-147.pdf
This is a report written by Dr. Sparks for Acting-Chancellor Marion Smith of the University System of Georgia. It is regarding the enrollment of veterans and the affects it will have in the coming years. Dr. Sparks leads with this in order to make a…

G1973-05_06_065-p148.pdf
Dr. Sparks writes to Mr. John H. Landers in this letter to compliment and possibly recommend the work done by Lloyd Preacher and Associates who did a lot of the initial work on Kell Hall.

G1973-05_06_065-p152-153.pdf
This letter is from Dr. George M. Sparks to Mr. Marion Smith, the Chairman of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.
In the letter, Dr. Sparks is outlining the financial standing of the college in regards to the purchasing of a…

G1973-05_06_065-p156.pdf
This letter from George M. Sparks to G. J. Dye is about the lack of heat in the Ivy Street Building and specifically the floors occupied Mr. Dye's company. The problem ended up being that the heat was turned off for Thanksgiving which cooled the…

G1973-05_06_065-p157.pdf
Sparks writes this letter to a representative of the Railway Express Agency, one of the Bolling Jones Building's tenants, in hopes of assuaging fears of the school growing to crowd out office space. He further consoles the tenants by informing them…

G1973-05_06_065-p158-160.pdf
George Sparks engages in threatening discourse with George Levy of Anderson-Clayton & Company, who rented space within the Bolling Jones Building for processing cotton. Concerned with the health and fire hazards imposed by the airborne cotton…

G1973-05_06_065-p161.pdf
Sparks clarifies his original December 4th letter to George A. Levy of Anderson, Clayton & Company, stating that he never threatened any legal action or consequences against the company. He however doubles down on his ultimatum, restating that the…
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