5 BICENTENNIAL DAWN, 8 POWEL HOUSE 12 MUSICAL FUND HALL 17 STARR PLAYGROUND 22 30 PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY 34 UNIVERSITY OF use of Constitution Hall. She was the 42 HOME OF JESSIE REDMON 45 JOHN W. HALLAHAN SCULPTURE BY LOUISE 244 S. 3rd Street 810 Locust Street; Private Lombard betw. 6th & 7th Streets OF THE FINE ARTS PENNSYLVANIA LAW first African-American to sing FAUSET CATHOLIC GIRLS’ HIGH legendary ladies NEVELSON (215) 925-2251 Broad & Cherry Streets SCHOOL with the Metropolitan Opera. 1853 N. 17th Street; Private SCHOOL 601 Market Street, James A. Byrne Site of the first graduation of the Female Anna Hallowell (1831-1905) established (215) 972-7600 34th & Chestnut Streets Her many awards include a 19th & Wood Streets. Federal Courthouse (interior, library); Learning in 1931 of the imminent Medical College (later Woman’s Medical Philadelphia’s first kindergarten in 1879, Presidential Medal of Freedom Editor, writer and teacher Jessie Open M-F 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM destruction of this home of College), the first school of medicine in on nearby Rodman Street, and donated The oldest art institution in the U.S. In 1883 suffragist Caroline Burnham and a 1980 U.S. Treasury Dept. Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) gradu- This first free Roman Catholic dioce- A GUIDE TO WHERE WOMEN philadelphia Philadelphia’s last Colonial and first the world to train woman physicians. this playground to the city around 1882. (1805) and one that provided early Kilgore (1838-1909) became the first gold commemorative medal ated from the Philadelphia High san high school for girls in the U.S. Louise Nevelson’s (1899-1988) Bicentennial post-Revolutionary mayor, Samuel Police were required to protect the women In the late 19th and early 20th centuries instruction and teaching opportunities woman graduate of the University of with her likeness. School for Girls and, following (opened in 1912) was made possible MADE HISTORY IN PENNSYLVANIA Dawn has been described as one of the Powel, and his wife Elizabeth Willing from male students who threatened vio- this neighborhood was a center of the for women. Mary Stevenson Cassatt Pennsylvania Law School and the first undergraduate work at Cornell through the philanthropy of Mary E. most beautiful public sculptures in the Powel, society woman Frances Anne lence at the December 31, 1851 ceremony. city’s migrant and immigrant popula- (1844-1926) studied here as did Cecilia woman lawyer in PA. Civil rights activist University, she received a Hallahan McMichan (1861-1925). U.S. Another example of Nevelson’s work, Wister (1874-1956), granddaughter of tions and of many of the reform efforts Beaux (1855-1942), Lilly Martin Spencer Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander (1898- Master’s Degree in French from PENNSYLVANIA COMMISSION FOR WOMEN 40 LIT BROTHERS Atmosphere and Environment XII, is at the actress and author Fanny Kemble, of middle and upper-class women. (1822-1902) and Violet Oakley 1989), the first African-American woman 8th & Market Streets the University of Pennsylvania. Edward G. Rendell, Governor West Entrance to the Philadelphia mobilized support to save this structure 13 SARAH JOSEPHA BUELL (1874-1961). to receive a law degree here (1927), was She served as literary editor of 46 MEMORIAL HALL Museum of Art. and to create the Philadelphia Society HALE HOUSE also the first black woman to receive a It was actually the Lit sister, The Crisis (1919-26), journal of the N. Concourse Drive near for the Preservation of Landmarks. 922 Spruce Street; Private 18 SETTLEMENT Ph.D. in economics and the first to prac- Rachael Lit Wedell, who started Lit NAACP. Two of her novels are set in 42nd Street & Parkside Avenue MUSIC SCHOOL 31 WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL tice law in Pennsylvania. Brothers in 1891. Her first dress shop Philadelphia: There is Confusion and West Fairmount Park Widowed at became famous because Wedell 6 FRANKLIN COURT 13 416 Queen Street; (215) 320-2600 LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND Comedy American Style. 1 126 ELFRETH’S ALLEY 4th & Market Streets 9 SAINT MARY’S CEMETERY age 34, four FREEDOM trimmed hats free if a customer bought Built as the art building for the 1876 (215) 574-0560 Open daily, nps.gov/inde/home.htm Entrance on 4th Street days before This school was founded in 1908 by 1213 Race Street 35 HOME OF CRYSTAL BIRD the materials in her shop, a service that Centennial Exposition, a celebration south of Locust Street the birth of Blanche Wolf (Kohn) and Jeanette Selig (215) 843-3403 was continued after her brothers joined of 100 years of American independ- This house, on the nation’s oldest FAUSET 43 HOME OF PEARL BAILEY Deborah Franklin (c. 1707-74) ran all the her fifth child, (Frank) and this building was constructed 5403 Vine Street: Private her business. The Lit family sold this busi- 1946 N. 23rd Street; Private ence and the first international fair residential street, was home to three family businesses—a book and stationery During the 1832 cholera epidemic Sarah Josepha in 1917 with funds provided by Mary This is the national Headquarters of the ness in 1928, but the sign “Hats Trimmed held in the U.S., that attracted mantuamakers, or dressmakers, from shop and a printing business—during her a Sanitary Commission was created Buell Hale Curtis Bok (Zimbalist) (see Curtis Women’s International League for Peace With her 1938 election to the Free of Charge” can still be seen on the Singer, actress, author and comedi- almost 10 million people to its 1762-1813. They are typical of 18th husband Benjamin's long absences. Her to care for the sick in temporary (1788–1879) Institute of Music). After WW II the and Freedom (WILPF), the oldest active Pennsylvania legislature, Crystal Dreda imposing cast-iron façade. enne Pearl Bailey (1918-90) was raised exhibits. Attendees saw the first Century urban women who worked in daughter Sarah Franklin Bache (1743- hospitals and at the very unsanitary first wrote school added several branches, including peace organization in the U.S. Included Bird Fauset (1893-1965) became the first in Philadelphia and began her career public demonstration of the tele- trades to be self-supporting. 1808), who bore 8 children, 7 of whom Almshouse. After a “nurses” panic several books one at 6128 Germantown Ave., begun among its founding members from African-American woman elected to a here when she won an amateur con- phone and the Women’s Pavilion, survived infancy, helped raise $300,634 at the Almshouse, the Commission and then under the leadership of Edna Phillips, twelve nations are Jane Addams and state legislature in the US. 40 test at the Pearl Theater at the age of which displayed the work of almost (continental) from 1,645 donors to sup- appealed to the Roman Catholic became editor principal harpist with the Philadelphia Emily Greene Balch, the only U.S. women 15. She was showered with numerous 1,500 women from 13 countries. The 2 BETSY ROSS HOUSE port the Revolutionary cause and served Archbishop of Philadelphia who then of Godey’s Orchestra and among the first women to win the Nobel Prize for Peace. awards during her career including: Women’s Pavilion also sponsored a 239 Arch Street as her father's hostess after the death of called upon the Maryland Sisters of Lady’s Book, members of any major American 22 PHILADELPHIA Resnick, Rachel Rubin, Winnie Schoefer, 36 WOODLANDS CEMETERY the Presidential Medal of Freedom, kindergarten, a woman’s journal, a (215) 686-1252 her mother. Charity, nine of whom are buried here. a monthly symphony (1930). ART ALLIANCE Allyson Young Schwartz, Letty Thall, 40th & Woodland Avenue special representative to the United national cookbook, a Catalogue of Incomplete records and worn tomb- magazine (215) 386-2181 Nations, USO “Woman of the Year” Charities Conducted by Women, Elizabeth Griscom Ross (1752- 251 S. 18th Street; Margery L. Velimesis, JoAnne Fischer Wolf, 32 THE CHINA GATE stones make the exact location featuring 10th & Arch Streets and her appointment as “Ambassador and a series of symphony concerts. 1836) learned the upholstery currently a restaurant and Lynn Yeakel to serve the special needs impossible to determine. recipes, Buried here are Alice Fisher (1839-88), of Love” by President Nixon. trade from her first husband, 19 INSTITUTE FOR of women and children. 2 household Founded in 1915 by art patron and Local architect Sabrina Soong supervised who trained under Florence Nightingale John Ross. After he died on COLORED YOUTH hints, colored fashion plates, poetry, fiction 915 Bainbridge Street; Private actress Christine Wetherill Stevenson the building of this 88-ton Qing dynasty and founded the Philadelphia General militia duty she continued and household advice. During her 40-year (1878-1922), the Philadelphia Art Alliance style China Gate. With its large charac- Hospital School of Nursing (1885), aboli- that business and supple- 10 WASHINGTON SQUARE 26 THE PLASTIC CLUB 43 6th & Walnut Streets tenure (until she was 90) the magazine’s Fanny Jackson Coppin (1837-1913), is currently housed in the Wetherill fami- ters reading “Philadelphia Chinatown,” tionist and suffragist Mary Grew, illustra- mented her income making 247 Camac Street; (215) 545-9324 circulation increased from 10,000 who was born in slavery and ly home. The R.Tait McKenzie bas-relief, a the gate identifies a community that was tor Jessie Wilcox Smith, botanist and flags for the Commonwealth On December 20, 1909 approximately to 150,000. She lived here with her graduated from Oberlin memorial to Stevenson, hangs over the Founded by sculptor Blanche Dillaye to first established in this area around 1830 artist Anne Bartram Carr, and artist of Pennsylvania. 10,000 of Philadelphia’s 15,000 shirt- unmarried daughter, Sarah Josepha Hale, College in 1865, came to dining room entrance. foster interest in the arts, this is the old- and grew substantially in the 1940s Susan MacDowell Eakins. waistmakers (almost all women, many who ran a successful school for girls at Philadelphia as a teacher est art club for women in continuous when the Chinese Exclusion Acts in their teens) went on strike here, this location. of Latin, Greek, and higher existence in the US. were repealed. 3 ARCH STREET joining the famous shirtwaist workers mathematics and as 23 WOMEN’S CLUBS 37 ST. IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA FRIENDS MEETING strike that had begun in New York principal of the girls’ 1630 Latimer Street; 43rd & Wallace Streets 4th & Arch Streets a month earlier. high school dept. of 14 BURIAL PLACE OF MARY 1616 Latimer Street 27 HOME OF This school traces its origins to (215) 627-2667 LUM GIRARD the Institute for Colored META V. WARRICK FULLER 32 Youth. She became The Pennsylvania Society of Colonial 1924 when two Sisters of the Quaker women played a Pennsylvania Hospital Pine Street 254 S. 12th Street; Private principal of the Institute Dames of America, founded in 1891, has Blessed Sacrament were sent major public role in the 11 MIKVEH ISRAEL Garden, on Pine betw. 8th & 9th in 1869, the first black been at 1630 Latimer since 1921. The Sculptor Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877- here to teach each Sunday by abolition, women’s suffrage CEMETERY, BURIAL PLACE Mary Lum Girard (1758–1815), the woman to head an Cosmopolitan Club has been at 1616 1968) was born, raised and educated in the founder of their order and women’s rights move- OF REBECCA GRATZ Spruce between 8th & 9th Streets beautiful wife of merchant millionaire, institution of higher since its founding in 1928 “to bring Philadelphia. One of her works is in the Mother Mary Katherine Drexel ments. Prominent abolition- (215) 922-5446 banker and philanthropist Stephen Girard, education in the U.S. together women who are doing creative collection of the African-American (1858-1955). Born to a wealthy ists and women’s rights advo- was committed by her husband to this or professional work…taking part in cos- Museum at 701 Arch Street. and socially prominent cates Angelina (1805-79) and Sarah 7 INDEPENDENCE HALL Philanthropist, Hebrew Sunday School hospital’s basement insanity ward, then mopolitan and civic affairs…and have Philadelphia family, Drexel 41 PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL OF (1792-1873) Grimke worshipped here, but Chestnut between 5th & 6th Streets founder and legendary model for the Philadelphia’s only institution for the more than a casual interest in the world inherited a portion of her DESIGN FOR WOMEN left when they were not permitted to sit 20 HOME OF FRANCES ELLEN Open daily, nps.gov/indep/home.htm heroine of Ivanhoe, Rebecca Gratz insane. She bore a child here, who lived of art and ideas.” 28 PLANNED PARENTHOOD mother’s $14,000,000 estate in 1346 N. Broad Street (Broad & Master) with their African-American friends the WATKINS HARPER (1781-1869) is buried in this cemetery five months. 1006 Bainbridge Street; Private OF SOUTHEASTERN 1883 and was known as “the (now Moore College of Art and Design; Douglasses; Sarah Mapps Douglass At the July 4th celebration here opening of the Colonial congregation of which PENNSYLVANIA richest nun in the world.” 20th St. & Benjamin Franklin Pkwy.) (1806-82) the teacher, abolitionist, and the 1876 Centennial Exposition (see she and her family were members. Already prominent as a lecturer and 24 NEW CENTURY GUILD AND 1144 Locust Street (215) 965-4000 vice-chair of the Pennsylvania branch of Memorial Hall) Susan B. Anthony (1820- Furnishings from her home are on poet, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper NEW CENTURY TRUST 15 HOME OF CHARLOTTE Birth control was one of the many In 1848 Sarah Anne Worthington King the American Freedman’s Aid 1906) and four other women presented permanent display at the National (1825-1911) moved to Philadelphia with 1307 Locust Street; (215) 735-7593 38 YM/YWHA Commission and her mother Grace their petition demanding suffrage for VANDINE FORTEN reform activities that involved women in Peter (1800-77) hired a teacher and Museum of American Jewish History, 336 Lombard Street; Private her daughter Mary in 1871 following the Broad & Pine Streets Bustill Douglass who ran a home school. women. During the Centennial, the 55 N. 5th Street and a 1831 Thomas death of her husband. She organized Founded in 1882, during an era of growth the 1920s. At this location since 1988, began a school in her home to train Planned Parenthood offers a range of The origins of the Jewish Ys “needy and deserving” young women in National Woman’s Suffrage Assn. set up Sully portrait of Gratz can be seen at Charlotte Vandine Forten (1785-1884) was black Sunday schools, served as a direc- in women’s organizations and in women’s 33 JEWISH PUBLICATION headquarters at 1431 Chestnut St. and the Rosenbach Museum and Library, a founding member of the Philadelphia tor of the American Association of employment opportunities, the Guild and health education and medical services to and Centers, formerly housed in this industrial design and practical arts. initiated “public parlors” to demonstrate Trust provided an unusually wide array of Delaware Valley preteens, teens, parents SOCIETY building, can be traced to the Young This first school of industrial design for 4 PHAEDRUS, SCULPTURE BY 2010 Delancey Street. Female Anti-Slavery Society, the matri- Education of Colored Youth and was 1930 Chestnut Street BEVERLY PEPPER “that the women of 1876 know and feel arch of two generations of abolitionist involved in organizing the National services designed to benefit self-supporting and professionals. Women’s Union, founded by 30 single women in the U.S. had the twin goals of 100 N. 6th Street, outside north end of their political degradation no less than 11 and civic-minded daughters, sons and Association of Colored Women of which women—the teachers, secretaries, Henrietta Szold (1860-1945), the first Jewish women in 1885 to provide a liberating women from limited occupa- Federal Reserve Bank did the men of 1776.” On Nov. 21, 1912 granddaughters and the wife of James she became vice-president in 1897. clerks, stenographers, waitresses, editor of the Jewish Publication Society, kindergarten for the children of Russian tional choices and liberating the U.S. women held a public rally here prior to Forten, Sr., a successful and prominent cashiers and nurses who worked 29 RACE STREET FRIENDS became better known for her later work Jewish immigrants. from dependence on European industri- Sculpted in 1974-77, Phaedrus was com- the opening of the 44th annual NWSA businessman and abolitionist. in the city. MEETINGHOUSE as founding president of Hadassah (1912) al design. It was housed at this location missioned by the Percent for Art Program convention, which attracted overflow 1515 Cherry Street; (215) 241-7260 and “Mother of the Yishuv” (Jewish settle- from 1880-1959. It merged with Moore 44 FORMER PHILADELPHIA 47 THE PARKWAY HOUSE established in 1959 as the first such pro- 21 CURTIS INSTITUTE audiences numbering up to 7,000 and OF MUSIC ments in Israel). 39 UNION BAPTIST CHURCH Institute of Art, Science and Industry in HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS 22nd & Pennsylvania Avenue gram in the U.S. to require a percentage featured such nationally known speakers Built in 1856, this Meetinghouse is asso- 1910 Fitzwater Street 1932 and changed its name to the 17th & Spring Garden Streets 16 MOTHER BETHEL 1726 Locust Street; (215) 893-5252 25 WOMENS WAY Designed by Elizabeth R. Hirsh of the costs of new construction to be as Carrie Chapman Catt, Anna Howard ciated with several nationally prominent (215) 735-7273 Moore College of Art in 1963. Moore is (current location: Broad Street & A.M.E. CHURCH 1233 Locust Street Fleisher (1892-1975), the fourth spent on fine art. Shaw, Julia Lathrop, Caroline Bartlett Founded in 1924 by Mary Curtis Bok women including abolitionist and the first and only women’s art and Olney Avenue) 419 S. 6th Street; (215) 925-0616 (215) 985-3322 Marian Anderson, the internationally woman to become a registered Crane and W.E.B. DuBois. Following the (Zimbalist) (1876-1970) with an endow- woman’s rights activist Lucretia Coffin design college in the nation, and one of acclaimed contralto (her birth date has The Philadelphia High School for architect in Pennsylvania, this is one Centennial (from 1896 to 1898) the The first African Methodist Episcopal ment of $500,000, Bok later added Womens Way, the Mott (1793-1880), suffrage leader and 39 two in the world. been variously reported as 1902 and Girls, among the first municipally of Philadelphia’s first major public Daughters of the American Revolution, Church in the world, said to occupy the $12,000,000 to her original gift. She nation’s oldest and Equal Rights Amendment author 1897; she died in 1993), was born and funded secondary schools for girls buildings designed by a woman (built the first national organization engaged oldest piece of property continuously named the institution in honor of her largest women’s fund- Alice Stokes Paul (1885-1977) and raised in Philadelphia, graduating from in the U.S., was founded in 1848 1952-53). in the preservation of historic sites, owned by blacks in America, Mother publisher father Cyrus H. Curtis. ing federation, was peace activist Hannah Clothier Hull South Philadelphia High School for Girls. during a period of expanding edu- worked in conjunction with city and Bethel Church was established in 1794 by founded in 1976 by (1872-1958). Ernesta D. Ballard, She first performed in public at the age cational opportunities for females. citizens groups to restore this site “to Rev. Richard Allen, the denominator’s Sylvia Shaw Judson’s (1897-1978) Jennifer Fleming, of 6 in a duet at this church where she Initially a Normal School, it began its appearance during the Revolution.” founder, and his wife Sarah Bass Allen statue of Mary Dyer, the 17th century Harriet Katz, Marcia was a member of the junior choir. In with 88 students who were required (1764-1849). Itinerant minister Jarena Lee Quaker martyr. P. Kleiman, Vicki W. 1939 she became a household name to sign a pledge committing them 7 (1783-?) worshipped here as did Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater director Kramer, Louise Lewis when she sang to a crowd of to teach at the conclusion of their Judith Jamison (1944- ). Page, R. Linda 75,000 from the steps of the Lincoln 2-year training. 29 Memorial after the DAR refused her the

61 Pennsylvania on the back of a flatbed 52 CHURCH OF THE ADVOCATE 57 WOMEN’S 65 MANAYUNK 69 REBECCA WEBB PENNOCK 75 81 HOME OF FERN I. 18th & Diamond Street; CHRISTIAN Main Street, Canal Side LUKENS — LUKENS truck; special events at each stop were an COPPEDGE 84 (215) 236-0568 ALLIANCE HISTORICAL DISTRICT opportunity to promote women’s voting 146 N. Main Street, New Hope; 1722 Cecil B. Moore Ave. Generations of native born and immi- Brandywine Mansion rights. When the 19th amendment passed Private The first ordination of women as (215) 236-9911 grant women worked in this industrial 102 S. 1st Avenue in 1920, organizers took the Justice Bell to Episcopal priests, known as the village’s many textile and knitting mills Coatesville Independence Square where it rang for Fern I. Coppedge (1883-1951) was “Philadelphia Eleven” took place here on In 1919 Dr. Melissa Thompson that once lined the main street. Today the first time. The League of Women a landscape painter associated July 9, 1974. The church has long been a Coppin, an African-American the former mill buildings have been Lukens (1794-1854) was the first woman Voters had the bell moved to this protect- bucks with the New Hope School of center for progressive social and political physician, worked with a group converted to mixed-use facilities. to own a mill business. She leveraged her ed location in 1995 to mark the 75th county American Impressionism and a activity. Christine Washington used it as of church women to establish entrepreneurial skills and shrewdness to anniversary of women’s suffrage. member of the Ten Philadelphia a base for initiating much-needed low an organization to help with the build what became the Lukens Steel Painters, a group of women artists and moderate income housing in the relocation needs of African- 66 INDIGENT WIDOWS’ AND Company, a major metal producer in who exhibited their works together. neighborhood. In 1998 author Lorene American migrants from the SINGLE WOMEN’S SOCIETY eastern Pennsylvania. 72 PENNYPACKER MILLS Coppedge, much of whose work Cary established Art Sanctuary here, a rural south. Originally located (TODAY RALSTON CENTER) Route 73 & Haldeman Road was inspired by the Delaware River multifaceted program to revitalize on South 16th Street, it moved 3815 Chestnut Street Schwenksville landscape, built this house in 1929. individuals and the community through to this section of the city when (215) 386-2984 70 LONGWOOD MEETING HOUSE (610) 287-9349 Some of her work is exibited at the The mission of the Pennsylvania Commission the power of black art. the center of black life shifted (now the Chester County Conference & James A. Michener Museum. here. The Alliance was the city’s Sarah Clarkson Ralston (1766-1820) Visitors Bureau. Located at the Anna Maria Pennypacker (1876-1952), for Women is to identify and advance the first African-American foster founded this organization in 1817 and entrance to Longwood Gardens) daughter of Governor Pennypacker, was 78 PENNSBURY MANOR took an active role in its management diverse needs and interests of Pennsylvania 53 VILLAGE OF THE care agency and in 1958 Route 1, Kennett Square (610) 388-1000 known as “The Worker’s Angel.” Like 400 Pennsbury Memorial Road 82 ST. ELIZABETH’S ARTS AND HUMANITIES became a licensed 61 WYCK until her death. Like many of her many college educated women of her day Morrisville CONVENT AND SHRINE women and girls; to inform, educate and 2544 Germantown Avenue (offices) adoption agency. 6026 Germantown Avenue contemporaries, she used her personal Founded in 1853, the “Progressive Friends she used her skills to improve the lives of (215) 946-0400 TO MOTHER MARY (215) 225-7830 (215) 848-1690 resources and social position to establish Meeting” encouraged discussion about others; she worked as a public school KATHERINE DREXEL social welfare, health, and educational controversial issues of the day including Hannah Callowhill Penn (1671-1726), advocate for its constituents; and to provide nurse in Philadelphia’s poorest neighbor- head housekeeper May Lofty, cook Ann 1663 Bristol Pike (Rte. 13) The Village emerged from painter Lily 58 YOUNG WOMEN’S UNION The women of this Quaker family kept institutions and services for those in the link between women’s rights and the hoods for 30 years. Her vocal support of Bensalem; (215) 244-9900 Yeh’s initial work with residents of a the property intact as the area changed need. This building is the Society’s third abolition of slavery. Prominent activist Nichols, contract washerwoman opportunities to empower women and girls (AKA NEIGHBORHOOD worker’s rights, women’s suffrage, and Elizabeth Seale and two enslaved women poor Philadelphia neighborhood to build CENTRE) from semi-rural to urban. Jane Bowne and dates to 1886. women such as Lucretia Mott, Hannah women’s reproductive rights place her in 75 BRYN MAWR COLLEGE This motherhouse of the Sisters of 84 HOME OF ANNA to reach their highest potential. a community park in 1986. It has grown Haines (1869-1937) a founder of the Darlington, Sojourner Truth, and Sue and Pathenia, formed the core com- the Blessed Sacrament, was built by HOWARD SHAW 238 Pine Street; Private the forefront of radical politics. Off Morris Ave. between Montgomery munity of women who kept all aspects of to encompass several parks, sculpture Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Graceanna Lewis belonged to this meeting. Mother Mary Katherine Drexel, the 240 Ridley Creek Rd., Media; Ave. & New Gulph Road, Bryn Mawr life at William Penn’s country estate gardens, murals, a tree farm, a commu- Fannie Binswanger and 30 other young Women in Ambler (now Temple order’s founder, in 1893. (see also St. Private In keeping with our mission, we are proud to nity center, and a series of performances single Jewish women from affluent fami- University) lived here as an adult. Jane Founded in 1885, Bryn Mawr College was functioning. Following her husband Ignatius Of Loyola in W. Philadelphia) and events. lies founded the YWU in 1885 to provide Ruben Haines and later Mary Haines the first women’s college in the U.S. to William’s stroke, Hannah Penn became Suffragist, lecturer and minister offer a brochure featuring the many places in played critical roles in saving the house manager of the estate and performed all Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919) built 50 services to prepare young Jewish women 70 offer graduate instruction leading to a Pennsylvania where women made history. We for employment. They opened their first and gardens for posterity. doctorate. M. Carey Thomas (1857-1935), official functions. this home during her tenure as 54 MORRIS ARBORETUM kindergarten at the Pine Street location the school’s first dean and second president of the National American invite you to discover colorful and compelling 100 Northwestern Avenue and in 1918 moved to larger quarters at chester president, is credited with shaping the Woman Suffrage Assn. (1904-1915) Chestnut Hill (215) 247-5777 318 S. 4th Street where they offered a 62 HOLY REDEEMER CHINESE county policies and standards that elevated 79 HOME OF MARGARET MEAD and lived here with her companion historic sites, buildings and monuments that wide range of social services. CHURCH AND SCHOOL Bryn Mawr College to a parity with 2675 Holicong Road, Holicong; Private Lucy Anthony, niece of Susan B. Lydia Morris (1849-1932) and her brother Anthony, until her death. 915 Vine Street male institutions. The M. Carey Thomas Although anthropologist Margaret Mead’s speak to the achievements and impact of the 48 THE ELLEN PHILLIPS 50 HOME OF GRACE KELLY John donated their home and gardens to Building was recently designated a 3901 Henry Avenue; Private (1901-1978) family moved a great deal in SAMUEL MEMORIAL the University of Pennsylvania for educa- The threatened destruction of this site by National Historic Landmark. delaware women of this Commonwealth. Kelly Drive, Fairmount Park tion about horticulture and gardening. the Vine Street expressway project in the her childhood, they kept returning to this Grace Kelly (1929-1982), actress and 85 THUNDERBIRD LODGE Lydia’s ideas about landscape are evident 1960s was the catalyst that catapulted 18-room house on their 108-acre farm county Ellen Phillips Samuel (1849-1913) left an Princess of Monaco, was born and 45 Rose Valley Road, Rose Valley; in two projects she initiated: the rose Cecilia Moy Yep into the role of commu- here. Mead graduated from the nearby estate of approximately $765,000 to raised in a well-to-do Philadelphia 76 THE HENRY FOUNDATION Private We feel strongly that understanding the past garden and the rustic area near the cabin nity activist. Yep helped save this impor- Buckingham Friends School and attended create a body of work “emblematical of family, attending the Academy of the FOR BOTANICAL RESEARCH she had brought to the site. Her interest tant institution and also took charge of Doylestown High School. Margaret Mead First the home and studio of the history of America.” At the time her Sisters of the Assumption and Stevens 801 Stony Lane, Gladwyne in all its richness will provide women and girls in the environment efforts to build much-needed housing. also lived at 235 W. Court Street in children’s book illustrator Alice gift was the second largest such gift ever School. Kelly won an Oscar 67 HORTICULTURAL HALL (610) 525-2037 5413 included work on behalf Doylestown while she was growing up. Barber Stephens and her husband a clearer focus and better perspective on their made to a municipality in the U.S. and the New York Film 225 N. High Street, West Chester of the Friends of the Founded in 1948 by botanist and plant The house has an historical marker. Charles Hallowell Stephens, it was Critics Award for her (610) 692-4800 Wissahickon and the 63 NORRIS SQUARE CIVIC explorer Mary Gibson Henry (1884-1967) created from an 18th century present and future lives. role in Country Girl and was City Parks Association. ASSOCIATION Women’s rights activist Hannah to showcase the plants she collected on fieldstone barn. awarded Philadelphia’s Order 49 WOMAN’S 59 149 W. Susquehanna Avenue Darlington convened the first her expeditions through remote areas of Merit in 1982 when the 83 MOUNT LAWN MEDICAL COLLEGE (215) 426-8723 Pennsylvania Women’s Rights of the West, Midwest and Southeast, 3300 Henry Avenue city celebrated the 300th CEMETERY 55 HMS SCHOOL FOR Convention here in 1852. This convention the Henry Foundation encompasses 50 80 86 DELAWARE COUNTY anniversary of its founding. 59 STENTON In 1982 a group of young mothers 84th Street & Hook Road Established in 1850, Woman’s Medical CHILDREN WITH passed resolutions promoting women’s acres of a surprisingly remote site in 80 INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE Her mother, Margaret Majer 4601 N. 18th Street decided to take action to save their Sharon Hill; (610) 586-8220 College (originally Female Medical College CEREBRAL PALSY legal, educational, and vocational rights. the steep hills of Gladwyne near the 11 Veterans Square, Media Kelly, was the University of (215) 329-7312 rapidly deteriorating Hispanic/Latino of Pennsylvania) was the world’s first (HOME OF THE Schuylkill River. Bessie Smith (1894-1937), acclaimed (610) 566-5126 Edward G. Rendell Leslie Stiles Pennsylvania’s first woman neighborhood located in North medical school for women, and, by 1910 MERCIFUL SAVIOUR America’s first collector of historical as “one of the most important athletic coach. Philadelphia. Their determination com- Abolitionist and natural scientist Governor Executive Director it was the last such institution in the U.S. FOR CRIPPLED records, Deborah Norris Logan (1761- 68 CHESTER SPRINGS women in the history of American bined with the leadership of Patricia Graceanna Lewis (1821-1912) is asso- Woman’s Medical College provided the CHILDREN) 1839), spent her adult years here. She HISTORIC DISTRICT 77 HOMES DESIGNED BY music” because of her pioneering DeCarlo has revitalized the community. 73 GRAEME PARK ciated with several Delaware Valley first outpatient prenatal care in the 44th & Baltimore Ave. lived through the formative years of the 1685 Art School Road, Chester Springs MINERVA PARKER NICHOLS blending of Western and African 51 THE ACORN CLUB 859 County Line Road, Horsham sites; most notably the Chester nation (1860s) and was the first hospital (215) 222-2566 nation and chronicled provincial and (610) 827-7414 101 Grayling Ave., Narberth; Private modes of music into blues-jazz, was 1519 Locust Street (215) 343-0965 County farm where she was raised in Philadelphia to use radium to treat early national history. Deborah saved, 1104 Montgomery Ave., Narberth; buried here in an unmarked grave (215) 735-4450 Helen Innes founded the 64 WALNUT STREET THEATRE In the 19th century Margaret Holman and which was a major stop on the cancer (1903). transcribed, and organized documents Private until, in August 1970, singer Janis Home of the Merciful Savior 9th & Walnut Streets owned and managed a fashionable spa Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson (1737-1801) Underground Railroad; the Academy www.WomenMadeHistoryInPa.com Organized in 1889 by about the period and wrote a memoir Joplin and North Philadelphia NAACP in the early 1880s, the first with 3 hotels. She brought in world class held a place of esteem in colonial Minerva Parker Nichols (1861-1949), a of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia members of the Outing about her husband George Logan; she President Juanita Green paid for and of its kind in the nation. Charlotte Cushman (1816-1876), known entertainers such as Jenny Lind, “the Philadelphia’s literary world as an author pioneering woman architect, studied where she was elected a member; Club, a walking club, kept a personal diary from 1811-1839 that for her highly dramatic interpretations of and leader of a literary salon. Margaret erected the current gravestone. Both WOMAN’S MEDICAL COLLEGE 49 Originally located at 54th Street & Osage Swedish nightingale.” In the post Civil War architecture at the Franklin Institute the Providence Friends’ Meeting the Club was originally founded provides valuable insight into the period. Shakespeare, became one of America’s Strawbridge received this property as a Billie Holiday and Mahalia Jackson Avenue, it accommodated 18 children; it period, the former hotel became the montgomery (1885) and then worked for Frederick G. 83 where she is buried, and this site to provide a place where mem- The site also tells the story of Dinah, a claim Smith as a mentor. Produced by a Heritage Tourism Cooperative Marketing Grant, moved to its current location in 1886. most popular actresses. She acted here Chester Springs Orphan School (1868-1912) wedding gift in the 1920s; kept it intact Thorn, Jr., taking over his practice when where she helped organize, curate, bers could “go after our freed African servant, who saved the county and took over the management of the for orphans of Pennsylvania soldiers. for decades and donated it to the he retired in 1888. She conducted a and label many collections. Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic walks…hold meetings, keep some house from being burnt down by British theatre from 1842-1844 before she left Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1957. Eleanor Bechtel Moore (1839-1926) was successful architectural 83 books and magazines and make a soldiers during the Revolution. Development, Tourism Office. for the London stage. appointed principal in 1876, becoming the practice for the next 7 cup of tea.” The Club has, 56 PENN ASYLUM FOR only women to serve in that years, building private throughout its history, hosted INDIGENT WIDOWS 80 HOME OF PEARL S. BUCK We would like to express our appreciation to Gayle B. Samuels and capacity in a state orphan 74 THE PENNSYLVANIA homes like two prominent performers, such as AND SINGLE WOMEN 60 HELENA T. DEVEREUX Off Rte. 313, 1 mile S.W. of Dublin, Cindy J. Little, PhD, whose commitment to women and love of history (PENN HOME) asylum. The Pennsylvania SCHOOL OF HORTICULTURE spaghetti factory Fanny Kemble, and rented its George Washington Elementary School 64 Perkasie; (215) 249-0100 1401 E. Susquehanna Avenue Academy of Fine Arts FOR WOMEN buildings and made this brochure possible. space for receptions such as the 5th & Federal Streets (800) 220-2825 ext. 170 (215) 739-2522 purchased the property in Temple University – Ambler Campus the no longer one given in honor of local educa- Helena Devereux pioneered the field of 1916, providing a freer 580 Meetinghouse Road., Ambler standing New Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (1892-1973) was Photography credits: {13} Department of History, University of Rochester; {19, 42, tor Agnes Irwin when she was Elizabeth Van Dusen, Elizabeth Keen, special education. In 1912 she became environment for self-expres- 71 JUSTICE BELL AT VALLEY (215) 283-1292 Century Club the first American woman to win both 74} ® Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Used by permission; chosen Dean of Radcliffe College. Margaret Creamer, and Ann Lee of the first Director of Special Education in sion. It closed in 1952. FORGE WASHINGTON at 124 S. 12th the Nobel Prize for Literature (1938) and {22} Collection of the Philadelphia Art Alliance; {32} Photo by R. Kennedy for The Club moved to its present Fishtown, who were connected to the MEMORIAL CHAPEL The Pennsylvania School of the Philadelphia School System and Horticulture for Women was estab- Street. the Pulitzer Prize (1932), awarded for The GPTMC; {39} Marian Anderson Archives, Van Pelt Library, University of location in 1957. shipping industry in the area, established Route 23, Valley Forge Pennsylvania; {70} Chester County Historical Society, West Chester, PA; established a private residential therapy lished in 1910 by Jane Bowne Haines Good Earth. Buck bought this farmhouse the Penn Home in 1844 to provide for (610) 783-5311 in 1934 and lived here with her publisher {75 & 84} Special Collections Department, Bryn Mawr College Library; program where she put her ideas about (1869-1937) and other graduates of neighborhood women in need. Today the rehabilitative therapy and individual- husband and nine adopted children for Used by permission. Suffrage activist Kathryn Raushenberg of Bryn Mawr College. It was the second Penn Home serves retired women and, based educational methods into practice. 34 years, leaving extensive memorabilia since 1991, men. West Chester commissioned the Justice school in the eastern U.S. to offer By 1918 she purchased property in Devon Bell in 1915 to promote women’s suffrage horticultural career training for women of her life here and in China. that became the basis of the now nation- during the intense state campaign. 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