• Council House Front Door

    Mary McLeod Bethune Council House

    National Historic Site DC

Our Staff & Offices

District Manager - Joy Kinard

Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site
1318 Vermont Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20005-3607

The main contact phone number is 202 673-2402

Did You Know?

NYA (National Youth Administration) girls' welding class. Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College.

In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Mary McLeod Bethune to be Director of the Office of Negro Affairs, National Youth Administration. With this appointment, Mary McLeod Bethune became the first African American woman to head a U.S. Federal Government agency.