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American Red Cross National Headquarters

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Built
  
1915 to 1917

Designated NHL
  
June 23, 1965

Added to NRHP
  
15 October 1966

NRHP Reference #
  
66000853

Area
  
5,261 m²

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Location
  
17th and D Sts., NW, Washington, D.C.

Architectural styles
  
Beaux-Arts architecture, Neoclassical architecture

Similar
  
Memorial Continental Hall, Treasury Building, DAR Constitution Hall, The Octagon House, Executive Office Building

American Red Cross National Headquarters is a building in Washington, D.C. that was constructed between 1915 and 1917. It serves both as a memorial to women who served in the American Civil War and as the headquarters building for the American Red Cross.

It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965.

Tiffany windows

The Board of Governors room contains three Favrile windows by designer Louis Comfort Tiffany. The windows are notable for being the largest suite of Tiffany windows outside a religious building. Unlike many other Tiffany windows, these windows have remained in their original setting. The costs of these windows were donated by two organizations of Civil War women: the Woman's Relief Corps of the North and the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The left panel was based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, Santa Filomena, that honored the work of Florence Nightingale. The center panel depicts the conception of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement at the Battle of Solferino near Solferino, Italy. The right panel depicts a scene from Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene.

References

American Red Cross National Headquarters Wikipedia