American Red Cross National Headquarters

American Red Cross National Headquarters

Infobox_nrhp2 | name =American National Red Cross
nrhp_type = nhl
nhl = yes


caption = Exterior photograph of the American Red Cross Headquarters, a large, white, columned structure with red crosses on the portico peak and above the main door.
location= 17th and D Sts., NW, Washington, D.C.
lat_degrees = 38
lat_minutes = 53
lat_seconds = 41
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 77
long_minutes = 2
long_seconds = 26
long_direction = W
locmapin = District of Columbia
area =
built =1915
architect= Trowbridge & Livingston
architecture= Beaux Arts
designated_nhl= June 23, 1965cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=649&ResourceType=Building
title=Red Cross (American National) Headquarters |accessdate=2008-05-12|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = October 15, 1966cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = Private
refnum=66000853

American Red Cross National Headquarters is a building in Washington, D.C.. The building serves both as a memorial to women who served in the American Civil War and as the headquarters building for the American Red Cross.

It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/66000853.pdf National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: American Red Cross National Headquarters] |32 KB|date=1985 |author=Blanche Higgins Schroer |publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/66000853.pdf "Accompanying three photos, exterior and interior, from 1964 and undated"] |32 KB]

Tiffany windows

The Board of Governors room contains three Favrile windows by designer Louis Comfort Tiffany. The windows are notable for being the largest suite of Tiffany windows outside a religious building. Unlike many other Tiffany windows, these windows have remained in their original setting. The costs of these windows were donated by two organizations of Civil War women: the Woman's Relief Corps of the North and the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The left panel was based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, Santa Filomena, that honored the work of Florence Nightingale. The center panel depicts the conception of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement at the Battle of Solferino near Solferino, Italy. The right panel depicts a scene from Edmund Spenser's epic poem "The Faerie Queene". [cite web|url=http://www.redcross.org/museum/history/tiffanydetail.asp|title=American Red Cross Museum|publisher=American Red Cross|accessdate=2008-05-12]

References

External links

* [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.dc: 1 color and 8 b&w photos, 2 data pages] , at Historic American Building Survey
* [http://www.redcross.org/museum/history/visitorinfo.asp American Red Cross Museum]


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