Gallaudet Hall, synonymous with the American School for the Deaf in West Hartford for nearly 100 years, will be torn down in a redevelopment. Photo by Kenneth R. Gosselin/kgosselin@courant.com.
For nearly a century, the face of the American School for the Deaf has been the iconic Gallaudet Hall with its red brick facade and two-story cupola, an edifice perched atop the great lawn on North Main Street in West Hartford.
A rendering of the new Amercian School for the Deaf building. Courtesy of Tai Soo Kim Partners.
But what is stately Georgian on the outside is 21st century shabby and outdated on the inside.
As the school — the nation’s oldest for the deaf and hearing impaired still in existence — prepares to break ground in a week for a new, $20 million building, the construction comes only after one shelved plan to renovate Gallaudet Hall and, more recently, months of anxious deliberations that led to this painful conclusion: the 1921 building should be torn down.
Take a virtual tour of the new building, which will break ground in two weeks, here:
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Too many historic buildings and houses are needlessly torn down or ruined and everyones told they have to accept this as part of “progress” In most cases its done for the sake of builing 55 and older apartments, million dollar mansions, a CVS or a bank. Even when theres another CVS less than 5 min down the road, a walgreens across the street, or 4 other banks in sight.