3-021-516 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Glasgow Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, 1869. 'The building of the Deaf and Dumb Institution is Venetian in style, and was designed and constructed by Messrs. Salmon, Son, and Ritchie, architects...The external walls are all built of Giffnock freestone, relieved with bands of Dumbartonshire red stone...A large room to the rear, entered from the school-room, is appropriated as a museum. The upper story of the front building contains the sick-rooms and other conveniences. The warming and ventilation of the extensive building are secured in a very satisfactory manner. The grounds belonging to the institution are tastefully laid out in greensward and shrubberies, with flower plots, in which are cultivated many common and useful plants, with which it is found desirable to make the children acquainted as part of their education. By crossing the road from the institution the children have free access to the fine pleasure-grounds of the Queen's Park, which are 150 acres in extent'. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.