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A symmetrical house with many windows and a large porch is framed by two stone end segments.

Glen Echo Park-Clara Barton House. The Clara Barton House was built in 1891 and is a fine example of late 19th-century American vernacular architecture. Its wood-framed exterior walls are made of lumber salvaged and reused from at least one of the emergency relief shelters built by the American Red Cross for survivors of the 1889 Johnstown flood. Its grounds do not seem to have been used for any purpose before Clara Barton moved to Glen Echo in 1897. From that time until her death in 1912, she managed the property as a small farm. The partially self-supporting estate contributed food to the household and to relief supplies of the American Red Cross.

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