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Board Regents minutes from May 29, 1929: Records bids received for building the Tuberculosis ward at the State Hospital in Columbia, and the decision to accept the lowest bid, proposed by Mechanics Contracting Co., of $22,981.

The Secretary of the Board of Regents presented the Mechanics Contracting Co. contract for the Tuberculosis Building Columbia and it was approved.

Records bids received for building the Tuberculosis ward at the State Hospital and the decision to accept the lowest bid, proposed by Mechanics Contracting Co., of $22,981.

The Board examined drawings for the proposed ward building for State Park and Tuberculosis building for Columbia presented by Mr. Robert S. Lafaye of the firm of Lafaye & Lafaye, Architects, and instructed Mr. Lafaye to procure bids for a special…

The Treasurer read a letter from architects Lafaye & Lafaye stating that with a few exceptions the T.B. Pavilion was ready for acceptance and that, to guarantee the completion of the said building, $531.00 of the contract price was being retained.

The entrance to the morgue at the back of the Ensor building.

Mrs. Inez Nola Fripp, executive secretary with the S.C. State Hospital, receives a certificate for 50 years continuous service from Dr. William S. Hall, State Commissioner of Mental Health and Superintendent for the hospital. On the wall is an…

Lafaye lists priority construction projects, including a maximum detention building for male patients at State Park. The architects attribute the hospital's problems to the "lack of foresight and planning on the part of the good people of the…

Clipping from The Columbia Record, 1954, showing architect's conceptual drawings for auditoriums at Bull Street and State Park campuses.

The hospital notes that overcrowding is still a problem. The new Maximum Detention Buildings have been only a partial alleviation. Includes a photo of a scale model of the Saunders/Cooper building design. The enclosed recreation areas and longer rear…