|
Carry A. Nation House
|
|
|
|
|
| Location: | 211 W. Fowler Ave., Medicine Lodge, Kansas |
|---|---|
| Built: | 1889 |
| Architect: | Thomas A. McClearey |
| Architectural style: | No Style Listed |
| Governing body: | Private |
| NRHP Reference#: | 71000303 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP: | March 24, 1971[1] |
| Designated NHL: | May 11, 1976[2] |
The Carrie Nation House in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, also known as Carry A. Nation Home and Museum, was a home of temperance movement leader Carrie A. Nation. It is one of two houses listed as Carry A. Nation House on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places; the other is the Carry A. Nation House in Lancaster, Garrard County, Kentucky.
Carrie Nation lived in this small brick house, at 211 W. Fowler Ave. (US 160) in Medicine Lodge, from 1889 to 1902. In 1900 she received a "divine call" to go to the nearby town of Kiowa, where she wrecked three saloons as part of her crusade against consumption of alcoholic beverages. Subsequently, in 1902, she sold the house and used the sale proceeds to open a home in Kansas City for the wives of drunkards.[2]
The building was bought by the Women's Christian Temperance Union in the 1950s. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976.[2][3]
|
||||||||||||||||||||