EXPLORECLARA BARTON NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE

Clara Barton National Historic Site

TYPE
historic-site
ESTABLISHED
1974
AREA
9 acres
STATE
MD
ECOSYSTEM
Forest

The 38-room home in Glen Echo, Maryland that Clara Barton built in 1891 and occupied until her death in 1912 served simultaneously as her personal residence and as the national headquarters of the American Red Cross she had founded a decade earlier. The rambling structure, with its built-in storage closets that doubled as supply rooms for disaster relief, reflects the remarkable way Barton fused her private life with her humanitarian mission.

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