The Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf (WPSD) is a school for
deaf
Deafness has varying definitions in cultural and medical contexts. In medical contexts, the meaning of deafness is hearing loss that precludes a person from understanding spoken language, an audiological condition. In this context it is written ...
and
hard of hearing children in
Edgewood, Pennsylvania. It was established in 1869.
The school is listed as a
Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmark. The administrative building was built in 1903 by architects
Alden & Harlow
Longfellow, Alden & Harlow (later Alden & Harlow), of Boston, Massachusetts, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,Margaret Henderson Floyd, ''Architecture after Richardson: Regionalism before Modernism--Longfellow, Alden, and Harlow in Boston and Pittsburg ...
.
Affiliated organizations
* Alumni Association of Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf
See also
*
Deaf Wrestlefest
Deaf Wrestlefest is a professional wrestling supercard, produced annually in late April or early May by Lord Zoltan, a longtime wrestler and sports promoter based in Western Pennsylvania. It is considered a major fundraiser for the Western Penns ...
*
Pennsylvania School for the Deaf
The Pennsylvania School for the Deaf is the third-oldest school of its kind in the United States. Its founder, David G. Seixas (1788–1864), was a Philadelphia crockery maker-dealer who became concerned with the plight of impoverished deaf childr ...
References
External links
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1869 establishments in Pennsylvania
Educational institutions established in 1869
Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks
School buildings completed in 1903
School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
Schools for the deaf in the United States
National Register of Historic Places in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania