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

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“Family Circle” by Fern Cunningham

Roxbury•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

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

Downtown•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Abiah Franklin and “Mother Goose”

Downtown•
17th Century
Arts & Culture

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

Anne Whitney Studio

Beacon Hill•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Annie Adams Fields’ Literary Salon

Beacon Hill•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Boston Ballet

South End•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Boston Center for Adult Education

Back Bay East•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Boston Center for the Arts

South End•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Boston Marathon, Tortoise and Hare Sculpture

Back Bay West•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Boston Public Library

Back Bay West•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Boston Public Library; North End Union

North End•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Chansonetta Stanley Emmons (1858 – 1937)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Charlotte C. Johnston (1845 – 1917) and Sarah Jane Frances Johnston (1850 – 1925)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
17th Century
Arts & Culture

Charlotte Fellman

Hyde Park•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

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

Cordelia A. Payson

Hyde Park•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

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

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Philanthropy

Easter Parade, Julia Oliver O’Neil

Back Bay East•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Edith DeAngelis

East Boston•
21st Century
Arts & Culture

Edmonia Lewis Studio

Downtown•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Eleanor Prentiss Creesy and Mary Ann Brown Patten

East Boston•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Eliza Ball Hughes (1808 – 1892)

Southern Dorchester•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Eliza Thayer Clapp (1811-1888)

Dorchester: Meeting House Hill•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Elizabeth Ogilvie

Southern Dorchester•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Elizabeth Peabody Book Shop

Chinatown•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Fanny Goldstein and Old West Church

West End•
19th Century
Education

Fanny Mason and Peabody Mason Music Foundation

Back Bay West•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Franklin Square House

South End•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

French Cultural Center

Back Bay East•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Gibson House Museum

Back Bay East•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Grace Susan Nies Fletcher (1885 – 1991)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Guild of Boston Artists

Back Bay West•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

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

Harriette Newell Woods Baker (1815 – 1893)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Harriot Curtis and Margaret Curtis

East Boston•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

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

Hepzibah Clarke Swan and Julia Ward Howe

Beacon Hill•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

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 Elizabeth Peabody

Jamaica Plain•
17th 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 Gladys A. Moore Perdue

South End•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Home of Gladys Edson Locke

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

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 Louisa May Alcott

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

Home of Louisa May Alcott

West End•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Home of Louise Chandler Moulton

South End•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Home of Margaret Deland

Beacon Hill•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Home of Maud Cuney Hare

Jamaica Plain•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Home of Mildred Albert

Roxbury•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

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 Senda Berenson

West End•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Home of Sophie Tucker

North End•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Home of Sylvia Plath

Beacon Hill•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Home of Sylvia Plath

Jamaica Plain•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU)

Chinatown•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Irish Famine Memorial and Annie Sullivan

Downtown•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Jennie Loitman Barron and Annie Londonderry

West End•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Jeremiah E. Burke High School

Southern Dorchester•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Josephine Preston Peabody (1874 – 1922)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

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

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Junior League of Boston

Back Bay West•
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

Maria Susanna Cummins (1827-1866)

Dorchester: Meeting House Hill•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Mariners House

North End•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Martha Dana Shepard (1842-1914)

Dorchester: Meeting House Hill•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Mary Baker Eddy, Massachusetts Metaphysical College

South End•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Massachusetts Normal Art School Site

Back Bay West•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Mildred Davenport’s Silver Box Studio

South End•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

New England Chinese Women’s Association

Chinatown•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Notable Women of Boston Mural

20th Century
Arts & Culture

Olive Gertrude Homans

Hyde Park•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Paul Revere Pottery and Library Clubhouse

North End•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Pauline Frederick (1883 – 1938)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Plaques to North End Women

North End•
17th Century
Arts & Culture

Rose Nichols and Nichols House Museum

Beacon Hill•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

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

Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton (1759-1846)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
18th Century
Arts & Culture

South End House and Children’s Art Centre

South End•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Spiritualist Temple and Exeter Street Theater

Back Bay West•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Statues by Theo Ruggles Kitson

Back Bay East•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Susanna Rowson and Federal Street Theatre

Downtown•
18th Century
Arts & Culture

Telephone Exchange

Chinatown•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

The Boston Women’s Memorial

Back Bay West•
21st Century
Arts & Culture

The Copley Society of Art

Back Bay West•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

The Public Garden and Fountains by Women Sculptors

Back Bay East•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

The Society of Arts and Crafts

Back Bay West•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

The Tuesday Club

Jamaica Plain•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

The Vilna Shul

Beacon Hill•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

The West End Museum

West End•
21st Century
Arts & Culture

Trinity Church & Parish House: Stained Glass by Woman Artists

Back Bay West•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Vilna Shul and Mary Antin

West End•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

West End Library

West End•
20th Century
Education

Women Sculptors on Commonwealth Avenue Mall

Back Bay West•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA)

Back Bay West•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

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