Built 1915 Designated NHL May 11, 1976 Opened 1915 Phone +1 202-673-2402 Added to NRHP 11 May 1976 | NRHP Reference # 76002135 Designated NHS February 27, 2006 Management National Park Service Architectural style Victorian architecture | |
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Location 1538 9th St., NW, Washington, D.C. Website Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site Address 1538 9th St NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA Similar Mary McLeod Bethune, National Geographic Museum, Pennsylvania Avenue National, Frederick Douglass National, Lyndon Baines Johnson Profiles | ||
Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site at 1538 9th Street NW, in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington, D.C., preserves the home of Carter G. Woodson (1875–1950). Woodson, the founder of Black History Month, was an African-American historian, author, and journalist.
History
The property served as Dr. Woodson's home from 1915 until his death in 1950. From this three-story Victorian rowhouse, Woodson managed the operations of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, published the Negro History Bulletin and the Journal of Negro History, operated Associated Publishers, and pursued his own research and writing about African-American history. The home continued to serve as the national headquarters of the Association until the early 1970s.
The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976 but became vacant in the 1990s. In 2001, the National Trust for Historic Preservation placed the site on its annual "America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places" list. With advocacy by the NTHP, the DC Preservation League, community activists, and Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, the National Historic Site was authorized by Public Law 108-192 on December 19, 2003, and established by Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton on February 27, 2006. The property was acquired by the National Park Service in 2005. The home is still vacant and closed to the public but the rehabilitation of the home is currently being planned by the National Park Service in partnership with local architecture firm Beyer Blinder Belle.