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Perkins School

Perkins School for the Blind, or simply Perkins, is the oldest school for the blind in the United States. It is located in and was established in 1829.
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  • Type: School
  • Description: blind school in Massachusetts
  • Also known as: “Perkins Institution for the Blind”, “Perkins School for Blind”, and “Perkins School for the Blind”
  • Address: 175 North Beacon, Watertown, MA 02472

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Armenian Library and Museum of America and Mosesian Center for the Arts.

Museum
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Armenian Museum of America, located in , United States, is an institution that has the largest collection of Armenian artifacts in North America. is situated 3,300 feet northwest of Perkins School.

Theater building
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The Dorothy and Charles is a nonprofit multidisciplinary arts venue on the in , United States. is situated 3,000 feet east of Perkins School.

Cemetery
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The is the second-oldest documented cemetery in . Located at the junction of Common and Mount Auburn Streets in central Watertown, it was founded in 1754. is situated 2,600 feet north of Perkins School.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Watertown and Nonantum.

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is a city in , United States, part of . The population was 35,329 in the 2020 census. Its neighborhoods include Bemis, Coolidge Square, East , Square, and the West End.

Suburb
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, also known as Silver Lake or The Lake, is one of the thirteen villages within the city of in , , United States, located along the at the site of a former lake.

Suburb
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is a former town and current neighborhood of , Massachusetts, United States, located in the northwestern corner of the city. It is named after the English city of .

Perkins School

Latitude
42.36203° or 42° 21′ 43″ north
Longitude
-71.17589° or 71° 10′ 33″ west
Elevation
56 feet (17 metres)
Open location code
87JC9R6F+RJ
Open­Street­Map ID
way 98835626
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­school
Geo­Names ID
4947014
Wiki­data ID
Q114071
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Perkins School” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Shkolla Perkins për të Verbërit”
  • Armenian: “Փերկինսի կույրերի դպրոց”
  • Catalan: “Escola Perkins per a cecs”
  • Chinese: “Perkins盲人学校”
  • Chinese: “Perkins盲人學校”
  • Chinese: “帕金斯盲人學校”
  • Chinese: “柏金斯啟明學校”
  • French: “Perkins School for the Blind”
  • Japanese: “パーキンス盲学校”
  • Korean: “퍼킨스 시각장애인 학교”
  • Russian: “Институт Перкинса для слепых”
  • Russian: “Школа Перкинса для слепых”
  • Swedish: “Perkins School for the Blind”
  • Ukrainian: “Школа Перкінса для сліпих”
  • Welsh: “Ysgol Perkins i’r Deillion”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Perkins School”. Photo: Wikimedia, FAL.