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Learn more and follow along with the virtual tour at: cambridgema.gov/bikerides Or see reverse side for more information about points of interest. 1. Cambridge Public Library (449 Broadway) 10. Sarah Sprague Jacobs Residence (19 Pleasant St) 19. Harriet A. Jacobs House (17 Story St) The Cambridge Public Library is a great place to learn more Longtime residence of Sarah Sprague Jacobs, one of the first Harriet A. Jacobs (see #14) moved here from Trowbridge St about the history of the women’s suffrage movement. two women elected to Cambridge School Committee in 1879. in 1872, and operated another boarding house until 1875. A historic marker can be found at this location. 2. Phebe Mitchell Kendall House (123 Inman St) 11. Cambridge City Hall (795 Mass Ave) Phebe Mitchell Kendall was one of the first two women The Cambridge City Council passed support for the 19th 20. (3 James St) elected to Cambridge School Committee in 1879. Amendment at City Hall in 1918 with a 9-5 vote. The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America is a research library at the Radcliffe 3. Maria L. Baldwin House (196 Prospect St) 12. Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd House (880 Mass Ave) Institute for Advanced Study, . Maria L. Baldwin was educated in the Cambridge school sys- Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd was the publisher and editor of tem, and went on to become a teacher at the Agassiz School The Cambridge Press, the first publication in America with an 21. Mary Ware Allen House (5 Riedesel Ave) (now Baldwin School) in Cambridge in 1882 and principal in all-female staff. In 1915, Mary Ware Allen founded and became President 1889. She was named master of the school in 1916, becoming of the Cambridge Equal Suffrage Club, a suffrage advocacy 13. Alice Stone Blackwell Home (1010 Mass Ave) one of only two women in the Cambridge school system organization. and the only African-American in New England to hold the Daughter of prominent suffragist and abolitionist Lucy Stone, position at the time. Alice Stone Blackwell graduated from Boston University in 22. Grace Allen Fitch Johnson House (90 Raymond S) 1881 and became editor-in-chief of the Women’s Journal, a Suffragist and activist Grace Allen Fitch Johnson was the 4. Gertrude Wright Morgan House (265 Prospect St) weekly suffragist periodical first published by her mother. President of the Cambridge Political Equality Association from Gertrude Wright Morgan was the President of the Woman’s 1911-1915 and President of the Cambridge Public Schools 14. Harriet A. Jacobs House (10 Trowbridge St) Era Club and active in the establishment of the NAACP and Association from 1912-1914. civil rights group the Niagara Movement. The original house Born into slavery in North Carolina, Harriet A. Jacobs escaped has been demolished but a historic marker can be found to New York in 1842, and moved to Boston in 1843 to avoid 23. Mary Eliza Smith Duhart House (48 Mt. Pleasant St) here. being forced back into slavery. She was an active abolitionist In 1914, Mary Eliza Smith Duhart founded and became and women’s rights advocate, authoring the influential President of the Garnet Equal Suffrage Club, a club for female 5. Cambridge Suffrage Headquarters (177 Hampshire St) autobiography Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. She lived and male Black suffragists in Somerville and Cambridge. The first location of the Cambridge Suffrage Headquarters, and operated a boarding house at this location from 1870- 24. Hannah Todd Carret House (114 Upland Rd) operating in June and July 1915. This location was the site of 1872. two open air suffrage rallies per week during good weather. Hannah Todd Carret was elected President of the Cambridge 15. House (36 Quincy St) Woman Suffrage Party in 1913. She was also the first woman 6. Margaret Fuller Birthplace (71 Cherry St) Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz first opened a girls’ school in 1855 probation officer in the country (possibly in the world) and Margaret Fuller was an influential writer and women’s rights in her home at 36 Quincy Street, with lectures given by a the first woman appointed to the Board of Prison Commis- advocate in the first wave of feminism, who empowered wom- number of Harvard professors. In 1873, she joined six other sioners. en to read, think and discuss important issues of the day. This women in an attempt to persuade Harvard to open its doors 25. Radcliffe Quadrangle building is now home to the Margaret Fuller Neighborhood to women. The result was the Harvard Annex, founded in House community center. 1879, which later became Radcliffe College. In 1882 she Radcliffe College was a prestigious women’s liberal arts became the first President of Radcliffe and remained at its college founded in 1879 that functioned as the female 7. Cambridge Suffrage Headquarters (560 Mass Ave) head until 1903. coordinate institution for until the two The second location of the Cambridge Suffrage Headquar- officially merged in 1999, becoming the Radcliffe Institute for ters, established in August 1915. The original building has 16. Cantabridgia Club (20 Quincy St) Advanced Study. Many Radcliffe alumnae led and participat- since been demolished and rebuilt. The Cantabridgia Club was founded in 1892 as an outgrowth ed in the suffrage movement, including prominent suffragists of classes for women to discuss current events. 8. Cambridge Women’s Center (46 Pleasant St) and Inez Haynes Irwin. Founded in 1971, the Cambridge Women’s Center is the old- 17. Cambridge Common 26. Florence Lee Whitman House (23 Everett St) est community-based center for women in the United States. Site of the future Cambridge 19th Amendment monument. Florence Lee Whitman was a Cambridge School Board The Center offers free programs and services for women of member and in 1925 became the first woman elected to all backgrounds. 18. Brattle Hall (40 Brattle St) When Harvard College would not allow English suffragist Em- Cambridge City Council (and only woman councilor before 9. Florence Luscomb House (37 Pleasant St) meline Pankhurst to speak on campus in 1911, she delivered Cambridge adopted its current 9-member Council “Plan E” Florence Luscomb was a women’s suffrage advocate and one her speech at Brattle Hall to a standing room-only crowd. government in 1940). of the first women to earn an MIT architecture degree. Brattle Hall is now the Brattle Theatre.