The Academy for Pastoral Education occupies the northern wing of the Chapel of Hope. The center instructed clergy in the complexities of administering religion to patients in a clinical setting.
The 1963 - 1964 Annual Report of the State Department of Mental Health provides details of the extensive chaplaincy operations and the announcement of the chapel building.
The blueprint showing the Chapel of Hope by Lafaye, Fair, Lafaye and Associates. Blueprint sheet A5. The perspective shows the North side with the Academy for Pastoral Education and the West side, the rear of the chapel.
Excerpts from the South Carolina Department of Mental Health's annual report for the year 1855, discussing plans for the potential erection of a new building, including location, price, and a comparison to buildings in Europe. Other topics include…
Excerpts from the annual report of the Asylum's superintendent, 1874, discussing progress on the construction of the south wing of the building, request to levy a special tax to fund further construction of the building, the need for more space at…
Excerpts from the South Carolina Department of Mental Health's annual report for the year 1882, including the report of the Building Committee discussing the completion of the north wing of the new building and move of white patients into these new…
Includes account of completed construction of "The Williams Building," in June 1932, designed to care for fifty "old and infirm white women." Physical description of the building and contract and construction dates (1931-32) all suggest that this…