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Superintendent Williams S. Hall, far left, stands with students of the Academy for Pastoral Education

Superintendent William S. Hall shovels soil at the Chapel of Hope groundbreaking ceremony while J. Rupert McGregor, Chairman of the Committee for the Chapel Fund and C. M. Tucker, Chairman of the S.C. Mental Health Commission look on.

A photo story showing the steeple being lifted onto the top of the chapel.

A news story from the State Newspaper about the cornerstone laying ceremony for the Chapel of Hope with projected costs.

A news story about the Good Neighbor Program where churches from throughout Columbia adopted wards at the South Carolina State Hospital.

Palmetto Variety newsletter article about Church Volunteer Services. This story predates the building of the chapel and shows the religious connection between the city and the hospital.

An 1842 record of meeting minutes showing Superintendent Maximilian Laborde request for assistance from local clergy.

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.

The formal application by Superintendent William Hall to build the Chapel of Hope.

Chaplain James Obert Kempson counsels a patient in the Kempson Center inside the Academy for Pastoral Education.