Missing Soldier's Office

As indicated by the name, this part down of downtown D.C. tends to be classified by the nearby galleries and Chinatown. But go a couple blocks south and you will find the office where Clara Barton helped find over 22,000 missing Civil War soldiers. After the early 1900s, the building was uninhabited and its purpose forgotten. However, in 1996 an employee of the General Services Administration found over 1,000 Civil War-era artifacts during a routine inspection of the building. After careful examination, he learned that building was where Clara Barton had operated the Missing Soldiers Office during the Civil War. After two decades of work, the office is now open to the public and has been preserved to look just as it did when Clara Barton worked and lived there.