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Era

“Family Circle” by Fern Cunningham

Roxbury•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

“Hear Us” — State House Women’s Leadership Project

Downtown•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Abiel Smith School/Museum of African American History, Sue Bailey Thurman and Ruth Batson

West End•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Abigail “Abbie” Ballou Heywood (1829 – 1918)

Southern Dorchester•
20th Century
Education

Adath Jeshurun Congregation (1906)/ First Haitian Baptist Church (1978)

Roxbury•
20th Century
Religion

Alice Bradley

Hyde Park•
19th Century
Education

Amanda Melvina Lougee

Hyde Park•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Amy Brooks

Hyde Park•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Angelina Weld Grimké

Hyde Park•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Anna Bobbitt Gardner Academy of Musical Arts

South End•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Anna Harris Smith (1843 – 1929)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Anna Quincy Churchill (1884-1971)

Dorchester: Meeting House Hill•
20th Century
Medicine

Annie Adams Fields’ Literary Salon

Beacon Hill•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Annie Frasier Norton

East Boston•
20th Century
Government & Public Service

Annie McKay

South End•
19th Century
Medicine

Armeda Gibbs, Isabel Hyams, and Sarah Hyams

East Boston•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Back Bay Station and Neighborhood

South End•
20th Century
Business

Boston Ballet

South End•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Boston Center for Adult Education

Back Bay East•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Boston Marathon, Tortoise and Hare Sculpture

Back Bay West•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Boston School Committeewomen

Downtown•
19th Century
Education

Boston Synagogue

West End•
20th Century
Religion

Boston Women’s Trade Union League

Chinatown•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Bridget Murphy Kennedy and Mary Augusta Hickey Kennedy

East Boston•
20th Century
Government & Public Service

Caroline “Orrie” Orr and Grace Flynn

East Boston•
20th Century
Education

Cathedral High School and St. Helena’s House

South End•
20th Century
Education

Chansonetta Stanley Emmons (1858 – 1937)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Charlotte Feibelman and the Mt. Sinai Dispensary

West End•
20th Century
Medicine

Charlotte Fellman

Hyde Park•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Chauncy Hall: MA Woman Suffrage Association

Back Bay West•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Chester Square: Anna Quincy Waterston, Harriet Boyd Hawes, the South End Historical Society, and Betty Gibson

South End•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Chinatown Community Mural: Unity and Community

Chinatown•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Church of the Covenant, The Women’s Lunch Place

Back Bay West•
20th Century
Religion

College Club

Back Bay East•
20th Century
Education

Cora Reid McKerrow and the Reid Funeral Home

South End•
20th Century
Business

Cordelia A. Payson

Hyde Park•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Dorchester Pottery Works: Ethel Hill Henderson (1896 – 1971)

Dorchester: Meeting House Hill•
20th Century
Business

Dorchester Woman’s Club: Clara Ripley (1855 – 1931) & Ella Whiton (1857 – 1932)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Philanthropy

Dorothy West: St. Mark’s Congregational Church

Roxbury•
20th Century
Religion

DotHouse Health: Caroline S. Callender (1854-1931)

Dorchester: Meeting House Hill•
20th Century
Medicine

Dr. Marie Zakrzewska, New England Hospital for Women and Children

Chinatown•
19th Century
Medicine

Dr. Marion Corleto Sabia

East Boston•
20th Century
Medicine

Dr. Marion Nute (1873- 1962)

Dorchester: Meeting House Hill•
20th Century
Medicine

Dr. Mary Safford-Blake (1834 – 1891)

Dorchester: Meeting House Hill•
20th Century
Medicine

Dress Reform Parlors and Milliners

Downtown•
19th Century
Business

Easter Parade, Julia Oliver O’Neil

Back Bay East•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Elida Rumsey Fowle (1842 – 1919)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
19th Century
Medicine

Eliza Ball Hughes (1808 – 1892)

Southern Dorchester•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Elizabeth Ogilvie

Southern Dorchester•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Elizabeth Stanton Chadbourne (1855 – 1930)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
19th Century
Business

Ella Frances Neale Boyd

Hyde Park•
19th Century
Education

Emerson College Buildings

Back Bay East•
20th Century
Education

Emilie Bethmann (1844 – 1928) & Freida Bethmann (1868 – 1951)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Education

Ethel Lennox (1910 – 1984)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
20th Century
Medicine

Ethel Rowland Flynn

East Boston•
20th Century
Business

Fanny Goldstein and Old West Church

West End•
19th Century
Education

Fisher College

Back Bay East•
20th Century
Education

Frances E. Brown Rowan

East Boston•
20th Century
Medicine

Frances Perkins’ Birthplace

South End•
20th Century
Government & Public Service

Frances Stern Nutrition Center

Chinatown•
19th Century
Medicine

Franklin Square House

South End•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Free Home for Consumptives: Elizabeth A. Power

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
19th Century
Medicine

French Cultural Center

Back Bay East•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Geraldine Pindell Trotter (1872 – 1918)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Gibbs College

Back Bay West•
20th Century
Education

Gibson House Museum

Back Bay East•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Girls’ High and Girls’ Latin School

South End•
19th Century
Education

Grace Lonergan Lorch (1903 – 1974)

Southern Dorchester•
20th Century
Education

Grace Susan Nies Fletcher (1885 – 1991)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Guild of Boston Artists

Back Bay West•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Hannah Glidden Myrick (1871 – 1973)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
20th Century
Medicine

Harriet Hemenway and the Massachusetts Audubon Society

Back Bay East•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Harriet Tubman House Site

South End•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Harriet Tubman Square Statues: Emancipation by Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller and Step on Board by Fern Cunningham

South End•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Harriot Curtis and Margaret Curtis

East Boston•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Hebrew Children’s Home (Hecht House) Ladies Helping Hand

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Education

Hebrew Industrial School

North End•
19th Century
Education

Helen Davis – Davis Funeral Home

Roxbury•
20th Century
Business

Helen Johns Carroll

East Boston•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Helen Storrow, Lina Hecht, Golde Bamber, Eva White, Ruth Roman West End House

West End•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Holocaust Memorial

Downtown•
20th Century
Religion

Home of Amanda Houston

Roxbury•
20th Century
Education

Home of Amy Beach

Back Bay East•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Home of Bashka Paeff

Beacon Hill•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Home of Bashka Paeff

West End•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Home of Corita Kent

Back Bay East•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Home of Dr. Fanny Berlin

Roxbury•
19th Century
Medicine

Home of Dr. Jessie Garnett

Roxbury•
20th Century
Medicine

Home of Elizabeth Kearney Blood

West End•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Home of Ella Little-Collins

Roxbury•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Home of Ellen Swallow Richards

Jamaica Plain•
19th Century
Education

Home of Ellen Swepson Jackson

Roxbury•
20th Century
Education

Home of Elsie Phelan Larsen (1881 – 1915)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Home of Emily Greene Balch

Jamaica Plain•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Home of Estella Crosby

South End•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Home of Frances Slanger

Roxbury•
20th Century
Government & Public Service

Home of Gladys A. Moore Perdue

South End•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Home of Gladys Edson Locke

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Home of Golde Bamber

Roxbury•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Home of Harriot S. Curtis and Margaret Curtis

Beacon Hill•
20th Century
Medicine

Home of Helen Morton

South End•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Home of Julia Oliver O’Neil

Jamaica Plain•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Home of Julia Ward Howe

Back Bay East•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Home of Louise Chandler Moulton

South End•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Home of Lucy Miller Mitchell

Roxbury•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Home of Margaret Deland

Beacon Hill•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Home of Marjorie Johnson

Roxbury•
20th Century
Business

Home of Mary Emilda Curley and School

Jamaica Plain•
19th Century
Government & Public Service

Home of Maud Cuney Hare

Jamaica Plain•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Home of Mildred Albert

Roxbury•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Home of Mother Mary Joseph Rogers

Jamaica Plain•
19th Century
Religion

Home of Rose Finkelstein Norwood

Jamaica Plain•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Home of Rose Lok

Chinatown•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Home of Rose Pitonof (1895 – 1984)

Dorchester: Meeting House Hill•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Home of Sarah Choate Sears

Back Bay East•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Home of Sarah-Ann Shaw

Roxbury•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Home of Senda Berenson

West End•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Home of Sophie Tucker

North End•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Home of Susan Walker FitzGerald

Jamaica Plain•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Home of Susie King Taylor

South End•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Home of Sylvia Plath

Beacon Hill•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Home of Sylvia Plath

Jamaica Plain•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Hotel and Restaurant Workers’ Union

Back Bay West•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU)

Chinatown•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Irish Famine Memorial and Annie Sullivan

Downtown•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Isabel Hayes Chapin Barrows (1845 – 1913)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Jamaica Pond – Ellen Swallow Richards

Jamaica Plain•
19th Century
Education

Jennie Loitman Barron and Annie Londonderry

West End•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Jeremiah E. Burke High School

Southern Dorchester•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Florida Ruffin Ridley, and The Woman’s Era Club

Beacon Hill•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Judith Winsor Smith

East Boston•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Julie Herne (1880 – 1955) & Chrystal Herne (1883 – 1950)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Leah Carrey

Roxbury•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Lebanese-Syrian Ladies’ Aid Society

South End•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Louisa May Alcott School and Alcott residences

South End•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Louise Chamberlain Purington (1844- 1916) & Ella Gilbert Ives (1847 – 1913)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Medicine

Lucy Anne Kirk (1859 – 1934)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
19th Century
Medicine

Lucy Stone (1818 – 1893) & Alice Stone Blackwell (1857 – 1950)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Margarita Muñiz Academy

Jamaica Plain•
20th Century
Education

Mary Eliza Mahoney

West End•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Mary Eliza Mahoney Dialysis Center

Roxbury•
19th Century
Medicine

Mary Hannah Hanchett Hunt

Hyde Park•
19th Century
Education

Mary Mildred Williams

Hyde Park•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Mary Soo Hoo Park

Chinatown•
20th Century
Business

Mary Vincent, Vincent Club

Back Bay East•
19th Century
Medicine

Mary Whitmarsh (1853 – 1943)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Business

Maryknoll Sisters

Chinatown•
20th Century
Religion

Massachusetts Bar Association

Chinatown•
20th Century
Business

Maverick Street Mothers

East Boston•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Melnea Cass – Cass House

Roxbury•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Mt Sinai Hospital

Roxbury•
20th Century
Medicine

Muriel Snowden International High School

Back Bay West•
20th Century
Education

Muriel Snowden: Freedom House

Roxbury•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Museum of African American History and Abiel Smith School

Beacon Hill•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Myrna Vazquez and Villa Victoria Center

South End•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

New England Chinese Women’s Association

Chinatown•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

North Bennet Street School

North End•
19th Century
Education

Notable Women of Boston Mural

20th Century
Arts & Culture

Nurses Hall

Downtown•
20th Century
Medicine

Park Square: Women Editors, Artists, and Entrepreneurs

Chinatown•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Paul Revere Pottery and Library Clubhouse

North End•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Pauline Agassiz Shaw Plaque and Home

Jamaica Plain•
19th Century
Education

Pauline Bromberg

East Boston•
20th Century
Education

Pauline Frederick (1883 – 1938)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Portia School of Law

Beacon Hill•
20th Century
Education

Poto Family Grocery Store; Leonarda Corlito and Frances LoRusso

North End•
19th Century
Business

Protest Meetings and Faneuil Hall

Downtown•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Quincy School

Chinatown•
19th Century
Education

Raquel Eidelman Cohen

East Boston•
20th Century
Medicine

Rice School and Boston Normal School (former)

South End•
19th Century
Education

Rogers Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Back Bay West•
19th Century
Education

Rose Finkelstein Norwood 40 Howland Street

Roxbury•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (1890 – 1995)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Philanthropy

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Birthplace

North End•
20th Century
Government & Public Service

Rose Kennedy Greenway

North End•
19th Century
Government & Public Service

Rose Nichols and Nichols House Museum

Beacon Hill•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Roxana Hayward Vivian

Hyde Park•
19th Century
Education

Ruby Foo’s Den

Chinatown•
20th Century
Business

Ruth Mowry Brown

Hyde Park•
19th Century
Education

Sarah Caldwell and the Boston Opera House

Chinatown•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Sarah Moore Grimké and Angelina Grimké Weld

Hyde Park•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

School of Fashion Design

Back Bay West•
20th Century
Education

Site of Denison House

Chinatown•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Site of Home of Isabella Stewart Gardner

Back Bay East•
19th Century
Philanthropy

Site of Simmons College Graduate School of Social Work

Back Bay East•
20th Century
Education

Site of Women’s Educational and Industrial Union

Chinatown•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Site of YWCA “Working Girls Home”

Chinatown•
19th Century
Philanthropy

South End House and Children’s Art Centre

South End•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

South End House Site

South End•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

St. Leonard’s Church

North End•
19th Century
Religion

St. Margaret’s Convent

Beacon Hill•
19th Century
Medicine

St. Mary’s Infant Asylum

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
20th Century
Medicine

Statues by Theo Ruggles Kitson

Back Bay East•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Susan Fessenden (1840 – 1932)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Telephone Exchange

Chinatown•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Temple Mishkan Tefila: The Synagogue on the Hill

Roxbury•
19th Century
Religion

The Boston Athenæum

Downtown•
19th Century
Education

The League of Women for Community Service

South End•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

The Museum of NCAAA

Roxbury•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

The Public Garden and Fountains by Women Sculptors

Back Bay East•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

The Tuesday Club

Jamaica Plain•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

The Vilna Shul

Beacon Hill•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

The Winsor School, Schools for Girls

Back Bay East•
19th Century
Education

The Women’s Service Club of Boston

South End•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Toni Bullock (1923 – 2011)

Southern Dorchester•
20th Century
Business

Union United Methodist Church

South End•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

View of Massachusetts General Hospital, Linda Richards, Mary Eliza Mahoney

Beacon Hill•
19th Century
Medicine

Villa Victoria Cultural Center, Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion (IBA) and Paula Oyola, Latina activist

South End•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Vilna Shul and Mary Antin

West End•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Virginia Isaacs Trotter

Hyde Park•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Walter Baker & Company

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Business

West End Library

West End•
20th Century
Education

William Monroe Trotter School: Geraldine Pindell Trotter and Maude Trotter Steward

Roxbury•
19th Century
Education

Women Judges

Downtown•
20th Century
Government & Public Service

Women Sculptors on Commonwealth Avenue Mall

Back Bay West•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom: Florence Hope Luscomb and Emily Greene Balch

Back Bay East•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA)

Back Bay West•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

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