# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S197
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

EN ER SEES RES Ler

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 195

plex of buildings, including faculty residences and adequate equip-
ment, at the present price levels, will exceed two million dollars.
This entire amount should not be viewed as a net cost occasioned
only if an entirely new Senior College is built at St. Louis. The
establishment of a Senior College at any location — even if the
basic equipment on an existing campus is adapted — will entail
the expenditures of considerable sums of money, since no location
is now adequate for the purpose. Nor should it be assumed that
it would be necessary to build all facilities eventually needed before
operation of the College could begin.

Buildings and Costs. —To supply a complete plant for 500
students, the following approximate costs are indicated: -

Administration building for housing all administrational |

offices and consultation —-_-_ $150,000
Administration building for classrooms and laboratories —.. $400,000
Chapel $150,000
Library ne $200,000

Dormitories each having a total capacity of 100 students,
but divided into separate units each having 33 students
and containing space for a Resident Counselor’s apart-
ment. All dormitories to be designed to include loung-
ing, and reading, and social-recreational rooms. No
more than two students are to be assigned to each liv-
ing room __._ $900,000

Refectory and Dining Rooms _._..._._- _.....-- $300,000

Student Center for both Seminary and College, including
physical education facilities and recreational facilities | ‘
so that students can pursue hobbies: woodcraft, pho-
tography, ete. $350,000

Athletic Field connected with the Student Center _..____. $ 50,000

Faculty Houses — a _ $250,000

While the total ultimate cost of an adequate plant for this
plan would probably reach two and a half million dollars, the
following considerations would modify the total immediate ex-
penditures required:

a. It would not be necessary to construct all of the indicated
dormitories at the time the School were established. An
initial expenditure approximating $600,000 for this item
would be sufficient to house the graduates produced by
current Preparatory College enrollments (not more than 300).

b. For the present it would appear to be possible to adjust
schedules in such a way that the dining rooms and the
service facilities now available to the Seminary could also