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Lafaye requests payment for revised Maximum Detention Building plans. Hoping to resume the project, shelved in 1942, the Board of Regents commissioned new drawings in October 1948. The project once again is on hold, but it still owes the architects…

Lafaye clarifies a payment agreement with the hospital. In 1942, the Lafaye firm drew up plans for "Criminal Insane" buildings, but the project was shelved. In 1948, the hospital commissioned a new set of plans. Lafaye tells Shelley that the 1948…

Letter to Van Bergen Maas-Rowe Carillons on the installation of the hospital's bell in the chapel. A bell that was once located at the hospital’s main entrance, used to announce the hour of the day from 1896 to 1952, was also added to the steeple.

A letter to Christie Benet from Coyt Ham discussing the revenue of the Ensor Research Foundation.

A letter from the Senior Surgeon of the Mental Hygiene Division about his visit to the site in March.

A letter from Christie Benet advising the foundation to change from an individual board of trustees to a corporate trust.

A letter from William S. Hall to the Chief Trust Officer giving information about the financial status of the Ensor Research Foundation.

A letter from William S. Hall to the Trust Department detailing the funding of a rehabilitation project with money from the Ensor Research Foundation.

Back side of the Food Service Building's loading docks.

Photograph of the primary entrance to the Bakery, illustrating the Classical architecturally-inspired archways of the doorways and windows.