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Rachel Carson designed and built her Silver Spring home in 1956: The unassuming, post-World War II ranch style house is footsteps away from the Rachel Carson Greenway and Northwest Branch Stream Valley Park. Carson was very fond of her flower garden, and loved to watch the birds that came to visit.
Much of the original landscaping is still there. The front yard contains: spruce, hemlock, and white pine trees, daffodils, and pink and white azaleas. Only a small part of the front yard has a formal lawn. She consciously worked to keep a "woody section" of native trees and to create a natural garden. The front yard retains the wooded area and much of the same appearance that it had when Carson lived there.
Now owned by the Rachel Carson Council, the house is open to the public periodically. Her house was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1991. |