Keller's thrust from Changsha would be urban as well as rural. The 1917 date of the Biola Afloat publication - as spokesman for most of Keller's views - coincided with the first property purchases
at Ch an gs ha - 19 17 . From that poi n t to 1 9 24 , t wen t y separate - \ :.' <'' " ,
adjacent pieces of land were acquired at that location, according to the records. 39 Other properties continued to be purchased at Nan Yoh on a smaller scale until 1913, and Hengshan, Hunan (1912-14) . 40 The latter parcel ·was sold to the Liebenzeller Mission (German medical missionaries) in 1935. 41 Since Lyman Stewart's funds were tied up by 1917 with Biola's building program on 6th and Hope Streets in downtown Los Angeles, Milton Stewart financed the bulk of the program at Hunan - according r 1 < to one account - in the amount of $355,000 for land and buildings. His widow funded an additional $139,000 in operating expenses up to 1934. 42 A 1969 filing with The Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States, based on Title V of the International Claim Settlement Act of 1949, revealed a larger price of $43,700.94 for the land, $332,150.70 for buildings, and $8,076.97 for personal property and equipment, totalling $383,928.61. 43 According to Dr. Charles A. Roberts (now residi~g in San Clemente, California), a Chinese architectural firm from Shanghai designed the campus and building complex. 44 Oversight ?nd super- vision of the physical plant fell under Otis Whipple, an architect from Seattle. 45 The twelve acre H.8.I. campus was palatial in
appearance.
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