Mary mcleod bethune council house nhs

National Historic Site of the United States

For other uses, see Mary McLeod Bethune Home.

The Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site preserves the house of Mary McLeod Bethune, located in NorthwestWashington, D.C., at 1318 Vermont Avenue NW.

National Park Service rangers offer tours of the home, and a video about Bethune's life is shown. It is part of the Logan Circle Historic District.^[1]

The house is about five blocks north-northeast of the McPherson SquareWashington Metro on the Blue and Orange Lines, and about five blocks south of the U Street Metro station on the Green Line.

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It is a half block southwest of Logan Circle.

About the site

The site consists of a three-story Victorian^[2][3]townhouse and a two-story carriage house. The carriage house contained the National Archives for Black Women's History,^[4] until 2014, when the National Park Service reloc