The Building Committee, and Architect for the Asylum, have returned from their tour visiting Asylums at other places, and have adopted a plan for the Asylum to be built at this place. We saw the plan yesterday, and it is magnificent, on paper. It will consist of a main building four stories high, and for wings, or wards (two on each side of the main building) three stories high. It will be sufficient to accommodate 250 patients, and will be 750 in length. It presents a splendid appearance, and will have all of the latest improvements.

The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 30 April 1886, Page 3. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.