The only locations I can find for “Martha Washington Home for Unwed Mothers” are in Wisconsin (Milwaukee, Wauwatosa).
Also known as “Booth Unwed Mother’s Home”.
No locations in Washington State.
Wake up, it was 58 or so years ago, in 2008 on their facebook pages, the Toutognhi offspring discussed how they used to go there as children, when it was an abandoned building, and hunt through the broken furniture, looking at names and initials carved in the wood.
You are a decade late to the party.
David, this might be it?
“Name: Martha Washington School for Girls
Description: Located at 6612 57th Avenue S. Brighton Beach on Lake Washington, the site is now Martha Washington Park, but in the early 1920’s it was a boarding school for delinquent girls. It’s also known as “The Martha Washington School for Insane Girls”. Rumors of violence committed by both the students and the staff surround the school, including multiple suicides and murders. Residents in the area were always uneasy with its presence and continually asked that the school be moved. This along with extreme budget cuts led to the closure of the school in the early 1970s – only to have the abandoned buildings taken over by a satanic group several years later. After over a decade of complaints about vandalism, animal sacrifices, and other strange goings on, the city council finally voted to demolish the historic buildings and turn the site into a park.”
That's silly. The building still exists--I have driven by it recently, I think on NE 50th or 55th. Martha Washington Home for Unwed Mothers. Closed a number of years ago.
When they closed the home, Barrack II's true mother's family made a big deal out of participating in the clean up. They are influential members of the U of W establishment and wanted to be sure there were no loose ends that would tie the Obama name to a resident of the home in 1961.