The now-abandoned Williams Building was constructed beginning in 1938 as a housing facility for drug and alcohol patients at what is now the South Carolina State Hospital in Columbia, South Carolina. Founded in 1821 as the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum, one of America's first mental hospitals, the South Carolina State Hospital is a publicly funded state-run psychiatric hospital. It had more than 1,000 patients in 1900, but with the transition of mental health facilities to community settings, it is now much smaller, occupying only a small portion of its campus. Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2017.