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 Welcome to the web site devoted to Clara Barton's home and office in Washington, D.C., where she lived and worked from 1861 to 1868.
Miss Barton's rooms on the third floor of 437-441 Seventh Street, Northwest, were discovered in the fall of 1997. Here you can explore the place where Clara Barton lived, from the intimate scale of her living space to a broad view of Washington during the Civil War.
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This photograph of Clara Barton was taken in about 1865 by Mathew Brady. It captures her in her early forties, during the time she occupied 437-441 Seventh Street.  

 

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