The Harriet Tubman House, founded in 1904 at 25 Holyoke St., was a residence for Black women excluded from Boston’s college dormitories and respectable rooming houses
Dedicated on June 20, 1999, statues by Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968) and Fern Cunningham (1949-2020) at Harriet Tubman Square celebrate the African American quest for freedom.
This building was home to Harriet Hayden (ca. 1816-1893) and her husband, Lewis Hayden, both born enslaved. It was a key station on the Underground Railroad in Boston.
