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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…

Mentions the only two buildings newly constucted in 1932, one a dining room for colored women at State Park, the other for white women, with a capacity for fifty--unnamed, but probably "Williams" aka Trezevant.

Report on the completion of the Williams Building in 1937, the contract for which had been drawn in 1936. This indicates that the building currently named the Williams Building is not the same as that which was constructed five years earlier in 1932…

Details of the dedication program for the Williams Reception Building, described as with a capacity for 200 beds (100 men, 100 women) and completed in 1937. More evidence that this building is not the same Williams constructed in 1932 with a capacity…

Latest mention of Trezevant as "Ward 18A"--mention of female patients and their visitors indicates that the building still in active use as a female patient ward in late fall 1954

One of many mentions of movies (usually religious) being shown in Wards 18A and 16A.

"News around the Wards" notes that Ward 18A "is now known as Trezevant Building." Goes on to describe a Yuletide party held in Trezevant.

Reports that on November 1, 1959, "the ceiling in Trezevant Building, occupied by female women, collapsed because of heavy rains" and patients were thereupon transferred to the 2nd and 4th floors of the James F Byrnes Clinical Center until repairs…

"Wards 120, 114A and B, 140, and 142 have been attending dances, movies, Ladies Day, Gentlemen's Day, and [o]ther hospital wide activities"

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…