Address delivered at the New-York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, December 2d, 1846 / By Harvey P. Peet, A. M., president of the Institution. With an appendix containing the proceedings at the dedication of the chapel.

Date:
1847
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Credit: Address delivered at the New-York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, December 2d, 1846 / By Harvey P. Peet, A. M., president of the Institution. With an appendix containing the proceedings at the dedication of the chapel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    be made to meet this exigency. The Board, after a careful survey of the whole ground, determined upon the further enlargement of the buildings of the Institution, and the past season has been one of activity and change. Two new and commodious wings, eighty-five by thirty feet each, with connecting wings twenty by twenty-three feet, have been erected, providing spacious sitting rooms for the pupils of both sexes, furnishing additional dormitories and rooms for other neces¬ sary purposes. The buildings of the Institution proper, with the recent addi¬ tions, present a front of two hundred and ten feet on Fiftieth- street, the extreme depth of the wings being ninety feet. They are of brick and stuccoed, appearing at a distance like white marble. Beautiful and ornamental porticos are erected in front and rear. The entrance is by the porch in the north front, open¬ ing into a hall, on each side of which are parlors for visitors. This hall extends sixty feet to the south porch, and is crossed by another, one hundred and fifty feet in length, terminating at one end in the boys’, and at the other in the girls’, sitting room, the former occupying the east, and the latter the west, wings. The dining room is a spacious apartment in form of the letter T, in which all the inmates of the establishment, including the President and his family, and the teachers who are not housekeepers, take their meals together, forming a household of nearly two hundred and fifty persons. This spacious and elegant Chapel has been constructed and fitted up for the use and convenience of the inmates of the Insti¬ tution, and we have assembled this day, to dedicate it to the service of Him, who has opened the ears of the deaf and taught the dumb to speak. Within these walls, are they to be taught those great truths revealed to man, which if this edifice had not been erected, must forever to most of them have remained a sealed book. Three hundred pupils, can now conveniently be accommodated here, and we confidently hope, that the day is not far distant when that number will be found on our catalogue. All these alterations and improvements have been met and