# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1923_S20
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Present cost of labor and material, Mr. Klauder Promised that he

-in addition to the library ($87,000), more than $125,000 subscribed,

housed in buildings which will be not only distinctive and pleasani

“pproved by the directors of the League. As a result of this arrar’
Ment there were obtained, during the next months, more th
$100,000 in definite pledges. j

Preliminary drawings and specifications for the lecture hall, a
ministration, auditorium, library, dining-halls, and service builgé:

was: $760,000, - (Since these figures were submitted, there has
another rise of Prices of labor and materials.) To these amoyy,
must be added the power plant with equipment, twelve residencg
a hospital, tunnels for heating-pipes, ete., other outside work and
grading, and other items, on

It was resolved that a joint meeting of the Board of Directo;
with the officers of the L. L. L., the faculty, and the Building Con
mittee be held February 27,

these buildings was $791,000, The earlier estimate on se

At this meeting the situation was again thoroughly gone oy,
and the large gathering, composed of synodical officers and busin,
men of distinction from al] parts of our Synod, endorsed the work:
80 far done by the Building Committee; Since it would be impossib
_to collect the complete amount needed for our Project before Syn
meets, it was resolved that the architect be instructed to submit oth
plans by which it would be possible to construct the buildings neces:
sary for this 8Toup at a cost of one million and a half. The Com:-3
mittee was much pleased to note the spirit in which the architect m :
the situation at Present confronting our Committee, While recoge'g
nizing the difficulty of providing, for the maximum sum mentioned,
®& permanent, practical, and distinctive group for 400 students af the

would make a sincere effort to Provide presentable drawings of
& group not to exceed in cost $1,500,000 for buildings only.

During the following weeks the efforts towards obtaining dona-
‘tions in large amounts were continued. Ag a result, there are now,

which will be availablé if the first designs are adopted, — the expre
sion of a wish, on the part of these donors, that our institution be:

to the eye, but, above all, fire-proof and hence low in cost o:
maintenance, _ ,