Lydia Huntley Sigourney

Poet and Teacher

Lydia Huntley Sigourney was born in Norwich on September 1, 1791. She began her young adult life as a teacher and opened a school for ladies in Norwich and later in Hartford at the ...

Amistad Memorial

The American School for the Deaf in Hartford had an important role in the events after theAmistadMunity. Although slavery still existed when the school was founded in 1817, the transportation of African people across the Atlantic Ocean ...

The Whipple Home School for Deaf-Mutes

Different Views for Deaf Education

Jonathan Whipple successfully taught lip-reading and speech to his deaf son Enoch and paved the way for oral schools in Connecticut. Inspired by this success, his grandson, Zerah C. Whipple, developed his own method of ...

Austin F. Williams House and Carriage House - ASD

This private home belonged to Austin F. Williams (1805-1885), who was an ardent abolitionist who helped both the Amistad captives and students from the American School for the Deaf. Williams built the carriage house on this property as a ...

Founders Memorial Gallaudet Statue and Square

Monument for Enlightenment

The New England Gallaudet Association for the Deaf unveiled this statue on April 18, 1953. Mrs. Frances Wadsworth, from Granby, designed this sculpture to resemble Alice Cogswell standing in large hands to commemorate the beginnings of deaf ...

Center Church - ASD

Rev. Thomas H. Gallaudet’s Church

Reverend Thomas H. Gallaudet attended and was a minister at this church.  He married Sophia Fowler here in 1821. In 1887, a beautiful stained glass window was dedicated to the Gallaudet Family. Depicting Jesus healing ...

The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Dedication to Education

Daniel Wadsworth supported Dr. Mason Cogswell’s dream for a deaf education from its inception. In 1815, he was amongst a handful of gentlemen Cogswell invited to his home to discuss the idea for a school and became ...

The Old State House - ASD

Funding Deaf Education in America

In May 1816, the Connecticut state government passed an act that officially incorporated the American School for the Deaf. Later that year in October, the Connecticut legislature voted to give $5,000 in aid to the ...

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 ...