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

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Abigail “Abbie” Ballou Heywood (1829 – 1918)

Southern Dorchester•
20th Century
Education

Alice Bradley

Hyde Park•
19th Century
Education

Boston Center for Adult Education

Back Bay East•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Boston School Committeewomen

Downtown•
19th Century
Education

Caroline “Orrie” Orr and Grace Flynn

East Boston•
20th Century
Education

Cathedral High School and St. Helena’s House

South End•
20th Century
Education

College Club

Back Bay East•
20th Century
Education

Cordelia A. Payson

Hyde Park•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Edith DeAngelis

East Boston•
21st Century
Arts & Culture

Elizabeth Peabody

West End•
19th Century
Education

Elizabeth Peabody’s Kindergarten

Beacon Hill•
19th Century
Education

Ella Frances Neale Boyd

Hyde Park•
19th Century
Education

Emerson College & Elma Lewis

Back Bay East•
20th Century
Education

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

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Education

Emily Anna Porter Fifield (1838-1913)

Dorchester: Meeting House Hill•
19th Century
Education

Fanny Goldstein and Old West Church

West End•
19th Century
Education

Fisher College

Back Bay East•
20th Century
Education

Gibbs College

Back Bay West•
20th Century
Education

Girls’ High and Girls’ Latin School

South End•
19th Century
Education

Grace Lonergan Lorch (1903 – 1974)

Southern Dorchester•
20th Century
Education

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

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Education

Hebrew Industrial School

North End•
19th Century
Education

Home of Amanda Houston

Roxbury•
20th Century
Education

Home of Elizabeth Peabody

Jamaica Plain•
17th Century
Education

Home of Ellen Swallow Richards

Jamaica Plain•
19th Century
Education

Home of Ellen Swepson Jackson

Roxbury•
20th Century
Education

Home of Gladys A. Moore Perdue

South End•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Home of Lucretia Crocker

South End•
19th Century
Education

Home of Rebecca Lee Crumpler

Beacon Hill•
19th Century
Education

Home of Rebecca Lee Crumpler

West End•
19th Century
Education

Industrial School for Girls

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Education

Jamaica Pond – Ellen Swallow Richards

Jamaica Plain•
19th Century
Education

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

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Medicine

Margarita Muñiz Academy

Jamaica Plain•
20th Century
Education

Martha Rand Morse May (1827-1894), Martha May Eliot (1891-1978) and Abigail Adams Eliot (1892-1992)

Dorchester: Meeting House Hill•
19th Century
Education

Mary Eliza Mahoney

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

Mary Hannah Hanchett Hunt

Hyde Park•
19th Century
Education

Muriel Snowden International High School

Back Bay West•
20th Century
Education

New England Female Medical College, now the Boston University School of Medicine

South End•
19th Century
Education

North Bennet Street School

North End•
19th Century
Education

Pauline Agassiz Shaw Plaque and Home

Jamaica Plain•
19th Century
Education

Pauline Bromberg

East Boston•
20th Century
Education

Portia School of Law

Beacon Hill•
20th Century
Education

Quincy School

Chinatown•
19th Century
Education

Rice School and Boston Normal School (former)

South End•
19th Century
Education

Rogers Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Back Bay West•
19th Century
Education

Roxana Hayward Vivian

Hyde Park•
19th Century
Education

Ruth Mowry Brown

Hyde Park•
19th Century
Education

Saunders and Beach Academy

Dorchester: Meeting House Hill•
19th Century
Education

School of Fashion Design

Back Bay West•
20th Century
Education

Site of Simmons College Graduate School of Social Work

Back Bay East•
20th Century
Education

The Boston Athenæum

Downtown•
19th Century
Education

The Winsor School, Schools for Girls

Back Bay East•
19th Century
Education

West End Library

West End•
20th Century
Education

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

Roxbury•
19th Century
Education

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