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National Register of Historic Places Inventory--Nomination Form

Clara Barton National Historic Site
Inventory No.: M: 35-25
Other Name(s): Clara Barton House
Date Listed: 10/15/1966
Location: 5801 Oxford Road , Glen Echo, Montgomery County
Category: Building
Period/Date of Construction: 1889, 1897
NHL Date: 1/12/1965

Significance: The Clara Barton National Historic Site is significant as the home of Clara Barton from 1897 to 1912, with special emphasis on the years 1897-1904 when it was also executive headquarters of the American Red Cross. Miss Barton's personal direction of its 1897 remodeling made the house uniquely hers in design as well as occupancy. Its architectural significance is best defined by photographic and written documents of the period and by the survival, sometimes concealed by later finishes, of much of the environment described by the documents. Areas such as the basement and the front apartment on the second floor are minimally described by documents and have undergone irreversible modification since Miss Barton's death in 1912. They are or will be adaptively used for those modern support functions required to administer and maintain the house as a museum. Similarly, first and second floor rooms on the long sides of the house and opening of the lightwell will continue in non-historic uses with minimal architectural change; the documentary record of these spaces is too meager to support accurate restoration.

Street address: 5801 Oxford Road , Glen Echo, MD United States 20812 County / Borough / Parish: Montgomery County Year listed: 1966 Historic (Areas of) Significance: Person Periods of significance: 1900-1924, 1875-1899 Historic function: Domestic,Health Care Current function: Landscape, Recreation And Culture, Work In Progress Privately owned?: no Primary Web Site: [Web Link] Secondary Website 1: [Web Link] Season start / Season finish: Not listed Hours of operation: Not listed Secondary Website 2: Not listed National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed

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