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The Arkansas School for the Blind is an educational institution for the visually impaired in Little Rock, Arkansas. The school was founded in 1858 by Reverend Haucke as the Institute for the Education of the Blind in Arkadelphia. The school was moved to Little Rock in 1868 and placed at Rosewood, a former 1840s country estate owned by Arkansas Territorial Governor William S. Fulton. The architect of the new school building was Ben J. Bartlett and the general contractor was C. W. Clark. The school became known as the Arkansas School for the Blind in 1877.
The school was moved to a new location on West Markham Street near the Arkansas School for the Deaf in 1939. The first building on the grounds was the Helen Keller Memorial Building. The new and long-serving principal of the school, James Max Woolly arrived that same year.
