The Current Home of the American School for the Deaf

Proud Home of the Mother School

Please note that this location is an active school and all visitors must check in at the main office.

As the urban landscape of Hartford expanded along Asylum Avenue, the American School for the ...

The Third American School for the Deaf

A Campus Devoted to Deaf Education

Now the location of the Hartford Insurance Company, the American School for the Deaf called his location home for 100 years, from 1821 until 1921. The school purchased the seven acre property from Jared ...

The Second American School for the Deaf

Expanding American Deaf Education

By the end of 1817 Gallaudet and Clerc needed more space for their growing number of students. They purchased the home that stood at this location from attorney Thomas Day. This second location is sometimes still ...

The First American School for the Deaf

Beginning 200 years of Deaf Education

Today the Bushnell Towers stand on the former location of the City Hotel. Rev. Thomas H. Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc rented rooms at this hotel and it was here that the American School for ...

American School for the Deaf

On Tuesday, April 15, 1817, in a building located on this site, the Connecticut Asylum for the Education of Deaf and Dumb Persons officially opened. The school was the first in America to teach deaf children and had a ...