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1856 - present
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deafness
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Chapel Hall, Gallaudet University
Chapel Hall, Gallaudet University Chapel Hall at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., was built in 1870.

Gallaudet University

university, Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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sculpture of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Alice Cogswell
sculpture of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Alice CogswellThomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Alice Cogswell, detail of a sculpture by Daniel Chester French, 1889; at Gallaudet University, Washington D.C.

Gallaudet University, private university for deaf and hard of hearing students in Washington, D.C., U.S. It has its roots in a school for deaf and blind children founded in 1856 by Amos Kendall and headed (1857–1910) by Edward M. Gallaudet, son of Thomas Gallaudet, founder of the first school for the deaf in the U.S. It consists of a college of arts and sciences, a graduate school, and schools of communications, management, education and human services, and continuing education.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Alison Eldridge.