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Fulton architect M. F. Bell supervised a major renovation and expansion of the asylum in the late 1880s, permitting the institution to raise its capacity to 550 by decade's end. In subsequent years, Bell continued to collaborate with superintendents to upgrade and expand the facility. Using part of a $125,000 federal payment reimbursing Missouri for damage done to the asylum by Union soldiers during the Civil War, he oversaw the addition of the Corinthian columns to the administration building in 1916.
 View of the State Lunatic Asylum and grounds, 1884.
Kingdom of Callaway Historical Society
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