Built in 1956, this typical suburban ranch-style house was where writer Rachel Carson wrote her classic work Silent Spring in 1962.

[3] The one-story house is typical of its era, finished in brick with an asphalt shingle roof.

She began writing Silent Spring at the house in 1958, rarely using the Maine cottage where she wrote The Edge of the Sea published in 1955.

As Carson continued work on the book, the nature of the research, involving public documents and correspondence with scholars, and her own health encouraged her to spend more and more of her time at home in Silver Spring.

Prior to her residence at this house, Carson lived in other houses in Montgomery County, including in the Woodmoor neighborhood of Silver Spring, where she wrote the National Book Award winning The Sea Around Us