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		B1: Women's City Club 40 Beacon Street Founded in 1914 by a group of women headed by Helen Osborne Storrow (1864-1944) as a service club for women, the Women's City Club membership rose to 5,000 by the mid-1920s. Storrow also brought Girl Scouts to Boston and sponsored girls' clubs and the Paul Revere Pottery which provided employment for young women (see N8). The Women's City Club sold its building in 1992 and now shares its space with the Union Club.
		B2: Home of Julia Ward Howe 33 North Square Best known as the author of The Battle Hymn of the Republic, written at the beginning of the Civil War, Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) lived here during that period, one of her several different residences in Boston. Howe was a noted reformer and early participant in the women's club movement after the war. She was joined by a group of women, including Caroline Severance (1820-1914), in founding the New England Women's Club in 1868, one of the first women's clubs in the country. She followed Severance as president. Howe was a leader in the suffrage movement and helped found the Woman's Journal. In 1872, she initiated the first Mother's Day, characterizing it as a Day for Peace. Howe read papers at the meetings of the Radical Club, a club for women and men who were "daring thinkers," which met at this site from 1867-1880 (see D6). The house was designed by Charles Bulfinch c.1806 and was one of three adjoining houses Hebzibah Clarke Swan (1757-1825) gave as wedding presents to her three daughters. Swan was one of five original proprietors of Beacon Hill at a time when it was rare for a woman to own property in her own name. "It's a new world today. I find it filled with a new hope and brightened by a new inspiration." -- Julia Ward Howe
		B3: Rose Nichols and Nichols House Museum 55 Mount Vernon Street Rose Standish Nichols (1872-1964) was among the first well-known women landscape architects and a lifelong pacifist who lived on Mount Vernon Street her entire life. She traveled extensively throughout the world and developed an interest in international politics. She left her house to the public and as a place for offices of organizations promoting international friendship.