Clara Barton, the Civil War icon and founder of the American Red Cross, died a century ago, but her office is still useful.
The downtown Washington building is set to become the new site of a national museum, the Associated Press reports.
The National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick, Md., signed an agreement Thursday with the General Services Administration to open Clara Barton’s Missing Soldiers Office Museum at the long-neglected site where Barton tracked down the fates of at least 22,000 men and responded to more than 63,000 letters from grieving families.
The group must still raise $4.75 million to open the museum.
