Gallaudet University - Campus

Campus

The Gallaudet campus has been designated a historic place on a number of registries and surveys:

  • National Register of Historic Places (added in 1974). Gallaudet College Historic District
  • District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites (listings added in 1964 and 1973)."...well-preserved romantic landscape campus designed in 1866 by Olmsted, Vaux & Co. (on site of estate named Kendall Green); includes excellent examples of High Victorian Gothic collegiate architecture; monument to founder Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, pioneer educator of the deaf (Daniel Chester French, sculptor); includes approximately 10 buildings c. 1866-1885..."
  • National Historic Landmarks designation (added 1965).
  • Historic American Buildings Survey (added 1933).

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