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Excerpts from the South Carolina Department of Mental Health's annual report for the year 1963, including a photograph on the cover depicting the front of the central section of Babcock looking at a northeast angle, an aerial photograph of the campus…

Lists Trezevant among the ward buildings built for the SCSH by Robert S. LaFaye between the years 1918-1972

Reports that on November 1, 1959, "the ceiling in Trezevant Building, occupied by female women, collapsed because of heavy rains" and patients were thereupon transferred to the 2nd and 4th floors of the James F Byrnes Clinical Center until repairs…

"It is hoped that funds can be made available to remodel and air condition Thompson and Trezevant Buildings...planned for the coming year"

"Unit II was provided a carry-in tray service to Trezevant." Trezevant had recently been assigned to the group of buildings/wards under the classification "Unit II"

Notes among other staff and maintenance needs in the wards that Trezevant needs repainting inside.

"In the forming of Unit II, six buildings were assigned to the unit to house chronic patients. Trezevant and Wilson Buildings were included."..."The female community preparation ward [?] ...were moved to Trezevant, Ward 114, because of the inability…

Notes that "Renovation was completed on the Trezevant building which allowed the Pharmacy to become fully operational. The South Carolina State Hospital Pharmacy will also serve several units at William S. Hall Pyschiatric Insitute."

Mentions the only two buildings newly constucted in 1932, one a dining room for colored women at State Park, the other for white women, with a capacity for fifty--unnamed, but probably "Williams" aka Trezevant.

Includes account of completed construction of "The Williams Building," in June 1932, designed to care for fifty "old and infirm white women." Physical description of the building and contract and construction dates (1931-32) all suggest that this…