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Introduction
Dioramas by Sarah Anne Rockwell, showing the development
of the Back Bay. |
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Women’s Educational and Industrial Union
An organization designed to serve women and their families that
was founded by Dr. Harriet Clisby, Julia Ward Howe, Louisa May Alcott,
Abby Morton Diaz, and others. |
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Museum
of Natural History
The precursor of today’s Museum of Science. |
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Rogers
Building,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The story of chemist Ellen Swallow Richards and early women students.
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Young
Women’s Christian Association (YWCA)
The nation’s first YWCA, led by Pauline Durant, and the Y’s recognition
of Melnea Cass. |
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Sarah Wyman Whitman Window
Stained glass window created by a 19th-century artist who was also
a watercolorist and book designer. |
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Massachusetts
Woman Suffrage Association
The second office space of that organization, and of the Woman’s
Journal, edited by Alice Stone Blackwell. |
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Boston Marathon Finishing Line and Tortoise and Hare Sculpture
Women athletes and marathon runner Nancy Schon’s sculpture to commemorate
the 100th Boston Marathon. |
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Hotel
and Restaurant Workers’ Union
The story of a ruling in favor of an all-woman union that now protects
women workers at Boston’s leading hotels. |
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Boston
Public Library
The story of newly arrived women immigrants who used the library
to further their education, and women’s artwork in the library’s
collection. |
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Exeter Street Theater and Spiritual Temple
Boston women’s involvement in the spiritualist movement and women
theater owners. |
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Society
of Arts and Crafts
The nation’s oldest nonprofit craft organization whose earliest
incorporators included Sarah Choate Sears and Sarah Wyman Whitman. |
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Guild
of Boston Artists
The story of early women members including Lilla Cabot Perry and
Amelia Peabody. |
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The
Copley Society
The oldest art association in America founded by students of the
Museum School of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and including women
members Lillian Westcott Hale, Marie Danforth Page, and Cecelia
Beaux. |
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Muriel
S. Snowden International High School
The Boston Public High School named for a leading advocate of African
American rights and the founder of Freedom House. |
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Chilton
Club
An early club for women founded before women could enter or join
men’s clubs. |
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The
School of Fashion Design
The school and its founder, Carolyn L. Dewing. |
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Katharine
Gibbs School
An early business school for women. |
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Junior
League of Boston
The second oldest junior league in America, dedicated to volunteer
work. |
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Church
of the Covenant and the Woman’s Lunch Place
Early women members and ministers, and a haven for poor women and
children. |
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Home
of Margaret Deland
The home of the turn-of-the-century novelist and social reformer. |
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American
Academy of Arts and Sciences
The academy’s first site and first member, astronomer Maria Mitchell. |
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Leslie
Lindsay Chapel, Emmanuel Episcopal Church
The chapel named for a young woman who died tragically. |
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Home
of Amy Beach
Home of the renowned composer and pianist. |
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The
College Club
The oldest women’s college club in America. |
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Statues
and Easter Parade
Statues by women along the Commonwealth Avenue Mall, and the famous
O’Neil family. |
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Harriet
Hemenway and the Massachusetts Audubon Society
Home of Harriet Lawrence Hemenway, one of the society’s founders.
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Simmons
College Graduate School of Social Work
The first school of social work to be affiliated with an institution
of higher learning. |
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Emerson
College Buildings
An early school of public speaking and communications, and its famous
graduate, arts educator Elma Lewis. |
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Boston
Center for Adult Education
The first private nonprofit adult education center in America and
one of its students, poet Anne Sexton. |
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Home
of Sarah Choate Sears
Home of the artist, collector, and arts patron. |
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French
Library and Cultural Center
Former home of sculptor Katharine Lane Weems that houses an organization
founded, in part, by women. |
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Home
of Isabella Stewart Gardner
First home of the renowned arts patron and creator of Fenway Court,
now the Gardner Museum. |
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Gibson
House Museum
Home of Catherine Hammond Gibson, a pioneer in the settlement of
the Back Bay. |
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Fisher
College
An early business school for women. |
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The
Winsor School, Schools for Girls
An early independent school for girls and other schools located
elsewhere in the city. |
Click
here to take the Lower Roxbury Walk |
