Henrietta Franks
Photograph

Henrietta Franks as a young child.  Mrs. Henrietta Franks was from Iowa and worked as an educator for 44 years.  She was involved with several community organizations.  With her two sisters purchased the Clara Barton house from the Hubbell nieces. They owned it for 22 years.  The sisters used the home as a 10-bedroom boarding house.  Developers were interested in destroying the house in order to build an apartment high-rise building.  In 1942, the sisters launched an effort to preserve the house. They founded the Friends of Clara Barton Inc.  An act of Congress declared the house a National Historic Landmark in 1965.  
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Clara Barton National Historic Site, CLBA 4500c