National Park Service rangers offer tours of the home, and a video about Bethune's life is shown. It is part of the Logan Circle Historic District. It is a half block southwest of Logan Circle.
The site consists of a three-story Victorian [ 2 ] [ 3 ] townhouse and a two-story carriage house. The archives and a research center at the property are open only by appointment. Bethune made her home in the townhouse from to The floor plan of the home remains unchanged from the days when Bethune lived there, and most of the furnishings are original to the home and owned by Bethune and the NCNW.
After Bethune's death, title to the house passed to the National Council of Negro Women, who continued to use it as a headquarters. Register of Historic Places in , and began a major restoration of the home, carriage house, and grounds.
Collier-Thomas turned the museum into a nationally prominent one. The structure was proposed as a National Historic Site the same year, but the National Park Service controversially refused to conduct a study that would make this determination. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item.
National Historic Site of the United States. About the site [ edit ]. Becoming a National Historic Site [ edit ]. References [ edit ]. May 26, Encyclopedia of American National Parks.
