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A recent exterior photograph of the Chapel of Hope.

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 Colonial Gardens outside the Chapel of Hope was donated by Columbia’s Garden Club of South Carolina in 1967.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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