we learn about the house from kevin patty. >> welcome to the historic site.e are going to see a big house of 38 rooms and 14,000 square feet. we will get to know the lady who lived here more than 100 years ago. this is her home for the last 15 years of her long life. she lived to be 90 years old. we will see that this was the first permanent home of the organization she founded. under one roof in this house they had the people ready to go. they had the supplies on hand. there is a walk in fault where they had $3000 ready. they didn't have to wait for the bank. whatever it was they were going -- we were standing in the room at her office. on one side there is the stapler. next to it the fragment of the cannonball she is using as a paperweight. it is something she could have picked up on a civil war battlefield. red cross windows are here. people could see those windows. people would know what this house was about by those windows and the red cross flag that was normally flying. clara barton died in this house three days before the titanic sank, april 12, 1912.