Emily Greene Balch (1867-1961), Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1946, lived here. She championed peace with WILPF and was a founder of Denison House and the Women’s Trade Union League.
Between WWI and WWII, 6 Byron Street housed the Massachusetts Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Florence Luscomb (1887-1985) was executive secretary from 1929-1933.
