Editing Clara Barton (section)

==Clara Barton's Missing Soldiers Office==
In 1869, Barton closed the Missing Soldiers Office and headed to Europe.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.nps.gov/clba/learn/kidsyouth/chron2.htm | title=Clara Barton Chronology 1861–1869 | publisher=National Park Service | access-date=June 8, 2015}}</ref> The third floor of her old boardinghouse was boarded up in 1913, and the site forgotten. The site was "lost" in part because Washington, DC realigned its addressing system in the 1870s. The boardinghouse became 437 ½ Seventh Street Northwest (formerly 488-1/2 Seventh Street West).

In 1997, General Services Administration carpenter Richard Lyons was hired to check out the building for its demolition. He found a treasure trove of Barton items in the attic, including signs, clothing, Civil War soldier's socks, an army tent, Civil War-era newspapers, and many documents relating to the Office of Missing Soldiers.<ref>{{cite web|title=Clara Barton's Missing Soldiers Office: An Historic Rediscovery on 7th Street|url=http://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?ID=229087|publisher=Smithsonian Associates|access-date=September 23, 2015|date=July 2014}}</ref> This discovery led to the NPS saving the building from demolition. It took years, however, for the site to be restored.<ref>{{cite news|title=Clara Barton's D.C. Office To Be Civil War Missing Soldiers Museum|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/12/clara-barton-dc-museum-missing_n_1421169.html|work=HuffPost|access-date=September 23, 2015|date=April 12, 2012}}</ref> The Clara Barton's Missing Soldiers Office Museum, run by the [[National Museum of Civil War Medicine]], opened in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|title=Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office|url=http://www.clarabartonmuseum.org/|access-date=June 12, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Peck | first=Garrett | title=Walt Whitman in Washington, D.C.: The Civil War and America's Great Poet | year=2015 | publisher=The History Press | location=Charleston, SC | isbn=978-1626199736 | pages=76–80}}</ref>