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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.

Chaplain Edwin Abiel Bolles report describes the move of the Chapel to the Babcock building. Referred to as the New Asylum Chapel.

A State Newspaper about the Garden Club of South Carolina, a columbia organization that donated a garden to the Chaepl of Hope.

Superintendent report showing the renovation of wooden buildings formerly used for African-American patients. The buildings were temporarily used as a chapel.

State newspaper story about the dedication of the chapel.

Blueprint showing the plan view of the Chapel of Hope, blueprint sheet A4. The perspective includes the East entrance and the South side of the chapel.

Special coverage from the Palmetto Variety hospital newsletter highlights the long history of religion at the South Carolina State Hospital and the building of the Chapel of Hope.

Excerpt from the South Carolina Department of Mental Health Annual Report for 1964-65. Page 40 highlights the final project close out cost of the Chapel of Hope.

Box 3, S190002, Mental Health Commission, Annual Reports of the South Carolina Department of Mental Health, State Hospital/Dept. of Mental Health 1960-1984, South Carolina Department of Archives and History.

South Carolina Department of Mental Health Annual Report for 1976-77 details an extensive chaplaincy program that includes services throughout two campuses and a pastoral education program that trained nearly 300 clergy in the 1976 - 77 time of…