COPY -- Original is in the Permanent File under "White House
Balcony"
Dear Mr. McDonough:
I have your letter of January sixth
requesting information with which to reply to the inquiry you received
from Mr. Charles H. Griggs of Los Angeles.
There is little I can add to the
details already published about the balcony to be built within the South
Portico of the White House. It will be a porch of steel, concrete and
tile construction on the floor level of the family living quarters, and
entirely within the columns of the portico. It will be similar to the
porch outside the floor below, on which the public rooms are located and,
like that, will have an iron railing about the perimeter.
The project was approved by Mr.
William Adams Delano, one of the most distinguished architects in America
and a former member of the
Commission of Fine Arts. Mr. Delano is acting as architect
in carrying out the work. The contract provides for an expenditure of
approximately $15,000, which covers materials, labor and the customary
construction costs.
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Sincerely yours,
CHARLES G. ROSS
Secretary to the President
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Honorable Gordon L. McDonough,
House of Representatives,
Washington, D. C.
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