St. Joseph's School for the Deaf
Historic site · Throgs Neck, New York
A Catholic school for deaf students in Throggs Neck, on a 10-acre campus at 1000 Hutchinson River Parkway, serving grades from infancy through the eighth grade across a main school, a daycare and a pre-school. Its own site gives the tagline "A School for All Seasons, Since 1869".
History
The school was founded in 1869 by Victorine Boucher and the Society of the Daughters of the Heart of Mary as Saint Joseph's Institute for the Improved Instruction of Deaf Mutes, at 772 East 188th Street in Fordham. It established its present Throggs Neck site in 1876 on land bought from Charles Lochran, and a branch in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, operated from 1874 to 1936. A second building went up in 1897 to a design by Schickel & Ditmars, and the current brick Romanesque Revival building, by the same architects, was completed in 1913. The extension of the Hutchinson River Parkway divided the campus in two in 1939, and in 1949 the western portion was transferred to become Monsignor Scanlan High School. The residential program ended in 1950.
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1000 Hutchinson River Parkway, Bronx, NY 10465
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