# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S52
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52 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

We are planning a library building which eventually will
provide space for 50,000 volumes and serve 350 students. We would
not at the present time use the entire building for library purposes
but avail ourselves of a portion of it for the administration offices.

The architect in 1952 estimated the cost of this building at
$325,000. The increase in cost of labor and building materials since
that time compels us to request the amount of $375,000 for the
library-administration building. In view of the anticipated increase
in labor costs the actual cost may exceed the requested amount.

Dormitory. There are only two dormitories on our campus,
Craemer Hall, accommodating 108 students, and Van Horn Hall,
designed for 75 students. At the present writing every space
in the dormitories is occupied. If our projection is correct, we
shall have accommodations for only 48 new single students next
September. There are no apartment houses or residences adaptable
for dormitory purposes in reasonable proximity to the Seminary.
Lack of dormitory facilities will necessitate declining a considerable
number of applicants. The estimated cost of a dormitory in 1952
was $275,000. Present estimate, $300,000. In view of the anticipated
increase in labor costs the actual cost may exceed the requested
amount.

Service Building. We are in dire need of facilities for storing
campus equipment, janitorial supplies, and other items necessary
for the upkeep of the Seminary property. A building 40x50 feet
would serve our purpose well. We are requesting $15,000 for such
a service building.

Faculty Housing. We feel constrained to call the attention of
Synod to the fact that with a full complement of teaching staff,
five professors will live off campus, some of them at a considerable
distance from the Seminary. Furthermore, three of the present
campus residences are so old that they will soon have outlived
their usefulness. The off-campus residences are not tax-exempt.

It would be in Synod’s interest to devise ways and means for
developing a more economical system of faculty housing.

Organ for Wessel Hall. At the time of erecting Wessel Hall,
Provision was made for a pipe organ, but lack of funds prevented
its installation. The following reasons induce us to approach
Synod with the request for $20,000 for a two-manual “classical”
organ of approximately 18 ranks. Each year about twenty-five
or more students would like to begin to learn or continue to learn
to play the pipe organ. Since the rebuilt organ in the chapel,
purchased by the student body in 1940 for $1,390, must be available
for practice by the regular chapel organists, and the chapel is also
otherwise in use, the organ is free for only a short practice
time. A pipe organ in Wessel Hall would provide opportunity for

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