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State newspaper story about the dedication 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.

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…

The contents of the chapel's cornerstone includes several historical documents and religious text illustrating the intent for the chapel to be a multi-denominational facility.

A page from a pamphlet entitled "Mental Health: Progress and Promise 1952-1972" shows an artist rendering of how the Chapel of Hope will look when completed.

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

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

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.