Overbrook School for the Blind

A few years later, on October 27, 1836, a new building was dedicated on the northwest corner of Schuylkill Third (now Twentieth) and Sassafras (now Race) Streets on what is today the site of the Franklin Institute in the Logan Square neighborhood of Philadelphia.

[3] The school's founder, Julius R. Friedlander, died on 17 March 1837, after years of poor health.

He had previously been employed as the superintendent of the New York State School for the Blind.

[6] In December 1907, the school's forty-member choir performed at the dedication of Philadelphia's Grace Baptist Temple.

[8] The building began to experience leaks in 2012 and a complete roof replacement was undertaken that same year.