SC State Hospital Wall Art

Images of this historic complex. Unfortunately, no one is allowed inside these old buildings, as they are deemed dangerous. Perhaps no institution in recent history has polarized South Carolinians like the old hospital at 2100 Bull St. in Columbia. Opened in the 1820s as The SC Lunatic Asylum, the Department of Mental Health (DMH) changed the facility's name to The SC State Hospital for the Insane in 1896 and then to the SC State Hospital the following century. Today, its oldest buildings lie barren and rotting on the sprawling 178-acre campus near downtown. But, in its 176 years as a functioning mental hospital, the institution treated over 168,000 patients. During the Civil War, these grounds were used as a POW camp. They...

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