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| N7:
Plaques to North End Women Revere Mall  Three
women prominent in North End history are honored by plaques on the left wall
of Revere Mall. At the age of ten, Ann Pollard (1620-1725) was probably the
first white woman to come ashore in Boston, landing with Governor John Winthrop
at the foot of today's Prince Street. Dr. Harriot Keziah Hunt (1805-1875), who
grew up on the waterfront at the foot of Hanover Street, became a doctor through
self-study after being refused permission to attend lectures at Harvard Medical
School. A women's rights advocate and social reformer, Hunt advocated health
education for women. Charlotte Cushman (1816-1876), who was born on the site
of the present North End branch library, became an internationally-known actress
renowned for playing both male and female roles. She established a salon in
Rome for women sculptors including Boston sculptors Anne Whitney (see B16) and
Edmonia Lewis (see D9) and Watertown's Harriet Hosmer. |
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| N8: Paul Revere Pottery and Library Clubhouse 18 Hull Street  The
first home of the Paul Revere Pottery, founded in 1908 by librarian Edith Guerrier
(1870-1958) and artist Edith Brown (1872-1932) and funded by philanthropist
Helen Osborne Storrow (1864-1944), was in the basement of this building. Reflecting
the philosophy of the Arts and Crafts movement, the pottery provided worthwhile
employment for young North End Italian and Jewish women. The lower floors of
the building served as the Library Club House under the supervision of Guerrier,
where young women formed clubs for reading, storytelling, and dramatics named
for their meeting times. The Saturday Evening Girls continued to meet until
1969. The Pottery moved to Nottingham Hill in Brighton in 1915, operating until
1942. |
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| N9: North Bennet Street Industrial School Corner of Salem Street  Pauline
Agassiz Shaw (1841-1917) founded the North Bennet Street Industrial School in
1881 to train newly arrived Italian and Jewish people in skilled trades. America's
first trade school, the school now holds an international reputation for courses
in fine furniture, jewelry, violin making, carpentry, and piano and violin restoration.
Shaw, active in social reform, gave financial support to the woman suffrage
movement. She is also responsible for the institutionalization of kindergartens
in Boston Public Schools. In the 1880s, she developed kindergartens in fourteen
schools using her own funds and energy. In 1887, the School Committee accepted
responsibility for continuing those kindergartens, gradually adding more. |
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