Howe Building Tower at Perkins School for the Blind.

Howe Building Tower at Perkins School for the Blind.

Item Information

Title:
Howe Building Tower at Perkins School for the Blind.
Description:
Tower at Perkins School for the Blind. The Perkins complex was designed in 1910 by R. Clipston Sturgis. The Howe Tower was named for Samuel Gridley Howe, founder of Perkins. Colonel Thomas Handasyd Perkins, a prominent Boston trader in slaves, furs, and opium, then presented his mansion and grounds in Pearl Street for the school to be held there in perpetuity. This building being later found unsuitable, Colonel Perkins consented to its sale, and in 1839 the institution was moved to the former Mount Washington House Hotel in South Boston. It was henceforth known as the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum (or, since 1877, School for the Blind.)
Format:
Photographs
Location:
Watertown Free Public Library
Collection (local):
Watertown Schools
Subjects:
School buildings--Massachusetts--Watertown
Schools--Massachusetts--Watertown
Perkins School--Watertown (Mass.)
Private schools--Watertown (Mass.)
Howe, Samuel Gridley--1801-1876
Perkins, Thomas Handasyd--1764-1854
Places:
Massachusetts > Middlesex (county) > Watertown
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/7d279146m
Terms of Use:
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Identifier:
figure 2905