The boys dormitory at Hermannsburg mission. In 1894 Pastor Carl Strehlow took charge of the mission. He was to remain in charge for the next twenty-eight years, and his son, T.G.H. Strehlow (who became a noted anthropologist), was one of the few white men to be fully initiated into the customs of the Aranda people. His death has resulted in some fierce controversy between his widow and the local Aborigines. Pastor Strehlow found the original buildings in bad repair and from 1896 he started, with the help of a builder named Dave Hart and an Aboriginal work force, to construct the buildings which still stand in the settlement. Using galvanised iron, stones from the nearby Finke River, mulga logs and lime made in a locally constructed kiln, Strehlow and Hart built a series of buildings which are now classified by the National Trust. The buildings include a school, mess house, manse and quarters for the missionaries. The church, which is now a museum, is distinctive because Strehlow planted two gums in front of it and erected the church bell between them. One of the gums has died and the bell, which still stands, is rather incongruously propped up by a post on the right hand side.,