Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site

National Park Service site preserving the home and office of historian Carter G. Woodson, who started Negro History Week.

1538 9th Street NW · Washington, DC

About Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site

This National Park Service unit in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington, D.C. protects the house where historian Carter G. Woodson worked and lived. The home served as headquarters for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, and Woodson began Negro History Week here in 1926, the observance later known as Black History Month. The site was acquired by the National Park Service in 2005 and is currently closed for a full renovation, with a new visitor center and exhibits planned for a future grand reopening.

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