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Meet Our Women

Take a walk with us and get to know the women who helped shape Boston. 

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African Meeting House

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

Anne Whitney Studio

Beacon Hill•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Annie Adams Fields’ Literary Salon

Beacon Hill•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Elizabeth Peabody’s Kindergarten

Beacon Hill•
19th Century
Education

Hayden House, Ellen Craft, Harriet Hayden

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

Hepzibah Clarke Swan and Julia Ward Howe

Beacon Hill•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Home for Aged Colored Women

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

Home of Bashka Paeff

Beacon Hill•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Home of Harriot S. Curtis and Margaret Curtis

Beacon Hill•
20th Century
Medicine

Home of Louisa May Alcott

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

Home of Margaret Deland

Beacon Hill•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Home of Rebecca Lee Crumpler

Beacon Hill•
19th Century
Education

Home of Susan Paul

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

Home of Sylvia Plath

Beacon Hill•
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

Museum of African American History and Abiel Smith School

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

Office of Salome Merritt

Beacon Hill•
19th Century
Medicine

Portia School of Law

Beacon Hill•
20th Century
Education

Rose Nichols and Nichols House Museum

Beacon Hill•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

St. Margaret’s Convent

Beacon Hill•
19th Century
Medicine

Statues of Women Dissenters: Mary Dyer and Anne Hutchinson

Beacon Hill•
17th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

The Vilna Shul

Beacon Hill•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

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

Beacon Hill•
19th Century
Medicine

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