Photo: "Babcock Blue Hour"

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Blue hour inside a dayroom of the Babcock Building at the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum.

This building was constructed in four different phases between 1857 and 1885, by architects George E. Walker and Samuel Sloan and is the second oldest building on the campus. This asylum was constructed to resemble a Kirkbride Building, but it was not actually a true Kirkbride.