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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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Albenia Martha Boole

East Boston•
19th Century
Business

Amanda Melvina Lougee

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

Anna Bobbitt Gardner Academy of Musical Arts

South End•
20th Century
Arts & Culture

Back Bay Station and Neighborhood

South End•
20th Century
Business

Birthplace of Jane Franklin Mecom (and Benjamin Franklin)

Downtown•
18th Century
Business

Cora Reid McKerrow and the Reid Funeral Home

South End•
20th Century
Business

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

Dorchester: Meeting House Hill•
20th Century
Business

Dress Reform Parlors and Milliners

Downtown•
19th Century
Business

Elizabeth Murray

Downtown•
18th Century
Business

Elizabeth Stanton Chadbourne (1855 – 1930)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
19th Century
Business

Ethel Rowland Flynn

East Boston•
20th Century
Business

Helen Davis – Davis Funeral Home

Roxbury•
20th Century
Business

Home of Estella Crosby

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

Home of Marjorie Johnson

Roxbury•
20th Century
Business

Mariners House

North End•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Mary Soo Hoo Park

Chinatown•
20th Century
Business

Mary Whitmarsh (1853 – 1943)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Business

Massachusetts Bar Association

Chinatown•
20th Century
Business

Mildred Davenport’s Silver Box Studio

South End•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Neponset Drying Works Fire

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Business

Old Corner Bookstore

Downtown•
17th Century
Business

Poto Family Grocery Store; Clementina Poto Langone; Leonarda Corlito and Frances LoRusso

North End•
19th Century
Business

Puffers Building

West End•
19th Century
Business

Rachel and Paul Revere House; Rachel Revere Park

North End•
18th Century
Business

Ruby Foo’s Den

Chinatown•
20th Century
Business

Sarah Baker (1805 – 1866)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
19th Century
Business

Susan Charter Humphrey (ca. 1823-1875)

Dorchester: Meeting House Hill•
19th Century
Business

The Public Garden and Fountains by Women Sculptors

Back Bay East•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Toni Bullock (1923 – 2011)

Southern Dorchester•
20th Century
Business

Virginia Isaacs Trotter

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

Walter Baker & Company

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Business

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