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On September 4, 1954 the new Food Service building was completed and contained a Cafeteria, Kitchen, and Bakery. Construction and Equipment cost was $1,281,901.52. This new building caters to feeding both Columbia and State Park divisions.

"The years 1951-1954 have been as a result the greatest period of sustained construction in the more than 125 years of the hospitals existance." "To replace the kitchen at the Columbia Division, from which the hospital was attempting to feed more…

B&W table showing discrepancy in South Carolina State Hospital's staffing numbers and the standards of the APA.

This page describes the recommendation of the State to rewrite their mental health laws and focus on the "woeful conditions existing in the State, Hospital, the most over crowded mental hospital in the United States…"

B&W photograph of first graduating class of State Hospital's physciatric residency program, June 30, 1963.

Mimeograph paper itemizing alterations to Physician's Residence Unit A.

The Personnel Division section in the 1954 Annual Records lists the following reasons for the employment drop between 1950-1951: "ren-entry of the U.S. into war, the re-activation of Fort Jackson and the contruction of an atomic energy material plant…

This is a shot of the West Face of a dining room.

This is a close up of the architectural components of the dining rooms.

This is the south face of a Dining Room.