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Status: Upcoming

690 Asylum Avenue: Built 1920-1921, architects E. S. Dodge and Baker, Thomas & Rice, general contractor Marc Eidlitz and Son, landscape design Sheffield A. Arnold; Hollis French and Allen Hubbard, mechanical engineers; occupied November 1921.

Photographs

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Exterior Detail: Above Front Door of Cogswell Building
Campus Map: Campus Map
Exterior Detail: Closeup of Corporate Sign
Exterior: Cogswell Building
Exterior Detail: Cogswell Building Front Door
Exterior: Cogswell Building Portico
Exterior Detail: Cogswell Building Portico Detail
Exterior Detail: Cogswell Building Portico Detail of Column Capital
Exterior: Connecticut Mutual Building
Exterior Detail: Connecticut Mutual Building Front Door
Exterior: Connecticut Mutual Building Front Portico
Exterior: Connecticut Mutual Building Looking Northeast
Exterior: Corporate Sign
Exterior Detail: Detail Connecticut Mutual Building Front Portico
Exterior Detail: Detail of Brick and Stone Work Connecticut Mutual Building
Exterior Detail: Detail of Frieze West Wing
Exterior: Dome Seen from Farmington Ave
Exterior: East End of North Addition
Exterior: East Side of Cogswell Building
Exterior: East Wing Lantern
Exterior: Eastern End of East Wing
Exterior: Front Elevation Looking Northeast
Exterior: Front Elevation Looking Northwest
Exterior: Front Portico
Exterior Detail: Front Portico Detail
Exterior Detail: Front Portico Door
Exterior Detail: Front Portico Showing Location of ASD Plaque
Exterior: Loading Dock
Exterior: Looking East into Liam McGee Park
Exterior: Looking Into Liam McGee Park Toward ConnMutual Building
Exterior: Looking up Front Walk
Exterior: North Elevation of North Addition
Exterior: Northeast Corner Cogswell Building
Exterior: Northeast Corner of East Wing
Exterior Detail: Plaque Commemorating American School for the Deaf
Exterior: Rear Elevation Cogswell Building
Exterior: Rear Elevation Data Center
Exterior: Southeast Corner of East Wing
Exterior Detail: Stone Retaining Wall
Exterior: Tower and Data Center
Exterior Detail: Tower Detail with Corporate Logo
Exterior Detail: Tree in Liam McGee Park
Exterior: Visitor Entrance in North Addition
Exterior: West Wing
Exterior: West Wing Lantern

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Sources

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