[9] After Bethune's death, title to the house passed to the National Council of Negro Women, who continued to use it as a headquarters.

[10] The Council of the District of Columbia added the site to the D.C. Register of Historic Places in 1975, and began a major restoration of the home, carriage house, and grounds.

[8] Archivist and historian Bettye Collier-Thomas was hired to manage the house, which the NCNW and the city hoped to turn into a research archive and museum.

[12] The American Institute of Architects awarded the facade and first floor restoration effort a historic preservation citation of merit.

[8] The National Council of Negro Women purchased as its new headquarters Sears House—an $8 million, six-story, 42,000-square-foot (3,900 m2) historic building at 633 Pennsylvania Avenue NW.