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Perkins School for the Blind

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The New England Asylum for the Blind was incorporated in Massachusetts in 1829 (St 1828, c 111); and opened in Boston in 1832 as the New England Institution for the Education of the Blind. It was successively renamed the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind in 1839, the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind in 1877, and the Perkins School for the Blind in 1955. The institution relocated in Watertown in 1912. Although not a state...

New England Institution for the Education of the Blind

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Originally incorporated in 1829 by Samuel Gridley Howe as the New England Asylum for the Blind, the school soon outgrew the Pleasant Street house of Howe's father, and opened in Boston in 1832 as the New England Institution for the Education of the Blind, the first residential school for the blind. The name was changed in 1839 to the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind, to honor benefactor T.H. Perkins, and in 1955 became known as the Perkins School for the Blind. In the e...

Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind

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Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind

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The New England Asylum for the Blind was incorporated in Massachusetts in 1829; it opened in Boston in 1832 as the New England Institution for the Blind. It was sucessively renamed the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind in 1839, the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind in 1877, and the Perkins School for the Blind in 1955. The institution relocated in Watertown in 1912. From the description of Annual reports, 1851-1924. (Unknown). WorldCa...