Carrie Nation House, Historic house museum in Medicine Lodge, United States.
The Carrie Nation House is a small brick house at 211 W. Fowler Ave. (US 160), at the corner with Oak Street in Medicine Lodge, Kansas. It is a vernacular-style residence where Carrie Nation lived from 1889 to 1902, now operated as a museum. The building is next to a reproduction of an 1874 stockade.
Carrie Nation lived in this brick house at 211 W. Fowler Ave. from 1889 to 1902. In June 1899 she reported a vision telling her to "Go to Kiowa," and she then smashed three saloons in that nearby town. She sold the house in 1902 and used the proceeds to open a home in Kansas City for the wives of drunkards. The Women's Christian Temperance Union bought the building in the 1950s, and it was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976.
Carrie Nation called the house home from 1889 to 1902, and it was here, in June 1899, that she described a vision telling her to "Go to Kiowa"; she then smashed three saloons there. The Women's Christian Temperance Union bought the building in the 1950s, and it became a National Historic Landmark in 1976.
The house stands at 211 W. Fowler Ave. (US 160), at the corner with Oak Street, next to the Medicine Lodge Stockade Museum. Tickets to the stockade museum also include entrance to the Carrie Nation Home, so the two are visited on one ticket.
Only two properties on the National Register of Historic Places bear Carrie Nation's name, with the other located in Kentucky. This distinction reflects how her reform work touched different regions of the country.
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