7500 Germantown Ave., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. County/parish: Philadelphia.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 09, 1985. NRIS 85000999.
10 contributing buildings.Also known as:
The Pennsylvania School for the Deaf is the third-oldest school of its kind in the United States. Its founder, David G. Seixas (1788–1864), was a Philadelphia crockery maker-dealer who became concerned with the plight of impoverished deaf children who he observed on the city's streets. The current school building is listed by the National Register of Historic Places, and two former campuses are similarly recognized.
It is one of four approved chartered schools—along with the Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children, the Overbrook School for the Blind, the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf—in Pennsylvania.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997278