Pneumatic Tubes at the Chicago Federal Building

A network of tunnels for pneumatic mail-transport tubes once buzzed with activity under the block now occupied by Chicago’s John C. Kluczynski Federal Building, Post Office, and Plaza. The post office housed in the old Chicago Federal Building, which ...

Shatila Bakery

When Riad Shatila came to the U.S. from Lebanon in 1977 seeking to build a business, he didn't have a set plan in place. He did, however, have a passion and love for Middle Eastern sweets and saw an opportunity ...

Arab American National Museum

The Arab American National Museum (AANM) is the first and only museum in the United States devoted to preserving, documenting and sharing Arab American history and culture. Arab Americans have enriched the economic, political and cultural landscape of American life. ...

The American National Bank Building

Seville Tower, originally called the American National Bank Building, was designed by J.E.R. Carpenter in 1908 in the commercial style, is a product of a "boom" period in Pensacola's economy when local businessmen promoted the city as a potentialimport and ...

Harvey Hatch

Watchmaker

Harvey Hatch’s life brought him across the United States and illustrates the tight bonds of the 19^th century Deaf Community. Born on March 20, 1808, Hatch grew up in Washington, CT. He enrolled at the American School for the ...

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 ...

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 ...