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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…

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.

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

Report on the completion of the Williams Building in 1937, the contract for which had been drawn in 1936. This indicates that the building currently named the Williams Building is not the same as that which was constructed five years earlier in 1932…

Details of the dedication program for the Williams Reception Building, described as with a capacity for 200 beds (100 men, 100 women) and completed in 1937. More evidence that this building is not the same Williams constructed in 1932 with a capacity…

A map of the buildings and grounds at the SC State Hospital in 1954, naming "Trezevant"--showing that the building by this time had taken on its current name.

Notes that in the 1930s, the first fireproof buildings were constructed, female wards Thompson and 18-A (later known as Trezevant), as well as the reception building Williams. Notes that "these naturally went to the north because there was no room…

Describes 18A (later known as Trezevant) as "one storey brick structure recently renovated, and not occupied when survey was made. Additional repairs needed...to replace defective electric fixtures and wiring"

A list of features and their conditions in Ward 18A (Trezevant), described as a female ward. Remarks that the building has "just been renovated...except for asphalt tile floors;" possesses bathrooms, kitchen, mess hall, brick exterior, wooden…

"Trezevant-Female Ward 114...in accordance with National Standards, outside exit doors in this building should remain to open in line with egress."