" Women Change America " The National Register of Historic Places is pleased to promote awareness of and appreciation for the historical accomplishments of American women during Women's History Month. As part of the celebration, this site showcases historic properties listed in the National Register, National Register publications, and National Park units commemorating the events and people, the designs and achievements that help illustrate the contribution of women to the Nation's history. Join the National Register in paying tribute to the many women who have made an impact in our past.

Eudora Welty Photo courtesy of the Eudora Welty House

Eudora Welty House, Jackson, MS Home of one of the most influential writers of the 20th century Ellamae Ellis League House, Macon, GA Self-designed residence of accomplished Georgia architect Ellamae Ellis League Woman's Athletic Club of San Francisco, CA Established by women in 1915 to improve themselves--intellectually, physically and artistically

The World War II in the San Francisco Bay Area itinerary includes Mare Island, where women worked as shipfitters, keel layers and marines Photo courtesy of Mare Island Historic Park Foundation

Travel Itineraries
Our itineraries are online guides tours to historic places listed in the National Register, National Parks and other historic places. Each includes detailed maps, tourist information, location information, and color photographs. Travel to historic places that tell the fascinating stories of women in various professions including educators, artists, inventors, business leaders, and philanthropists.

• Places Where Women Made History
This itinerary highlights 74 historic properties in Massachusetts and New York that are associated with women who made outstanding contributions to education, government, medicine, the arts, commerce, women's suffrage and the early civil rights movement.

• ~NEW~ World War II in the San Francisco Bay Area
  Learn how women contributed to the war effort at places like Rosie the Riveter--World War II Home Front National Historical Park, SS Red Oak Victory, Ford Motor Company Assembly Plantand Richmond Shipyard Number Three.
• ~NEW~ Asheville, North Carolina
  Read about the Princess Anne Hote or the Brexton Boarding House--examples of boarding houses established by women in this southern resort town.
• Aboard the Underground Railroad
  Learn about Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Amanda Foster, Sally Wilson, Mary Johnson, and Sophia Clemens--heroic women who furthered the efforts of the Underground Railroad movement.
• Ashland, Oregon
  Find out more about the Women's Civic Improvement Club and Alice Applegate Peil, an early educator and the first female school principal in the early settlements of southern Oregon.
• Atlanta, Georgia
  Discover Crescent Apartments where female author Margaret Mitchell wrote her famous novel, Gone with the Wind, or explore Habersham Memorial Hall, a chapter house of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
• Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms
  Many women have contributed to our aviation history, including Amelia Earhart and Katherine and Majorie Stinson.
  
• Baltimore: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
  Baltimore's rich history includes the contributions of the city's women including Mother Seton and the educators and students at Eastern Female High School.
• Detroit: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
  Visit Detroit's Women's City Club, and meet Eleanor Ford, and Mary Chase Perry to discover more about women's history in Detroit.
• Hardin, Iowa
  Learn more about late 19th- and early 20th-century Progressive reform activity at the Edgewood School of Domestic Arts or the Women's Relief Corps, a women's organization created to serve the country's veterans at the W.R.C. Hall.
  
• Lexington, Kentucky: The Athens of the West
  Discover the simple two-story brick building that was home to a teenage Mary Todd, wife of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.
• Lewis and Clark Expedition
  One of the most important unofficial members of the Corps of Discovery was Sacagawea, a young Shoshone woman who proved to be an invaluable interpreter for the explorers.
• Santa Clara County: California's Historic Silicon Valley
  Many fascinating women called the area home, including Sarah L. Winchester, wife of rifle manufacturer William Wirt Winchester, who was continually adding on to her mysterious Winchester House, while Lou Henry Hoover, wife of Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States, designed this couple's home, as did writer Ruth Comfort Mitchell Young.
• Shaker Historic Trail
  "Mother" Ann Lee, the English-born leader of the Shakers, began her public ministry in America in 1780. The Shakers who believed in gender equality, established 19 official communities from Maine to Kentucky, 15 of which are highlighted in this itinerary.
• Three Historic Nevada Cities: Caron City, Reno and Nevada City
  Meet Dat So La Lee, famous Washoe Indian basket weaver.
• ~NEW~Virginia Main Street Communities
  The town of Staunton, Viriginia is home to Mary Baldwin College--the Nation's oldest women's college affiliated with the Presbyterian Church.
  
• Washington DC: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
  Visit our Nation's Capital to learn about one of America's most influential black women, Mary McLeod Bethune, Civil Rights activist Mary Church Terrell, the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall, and the Sewall-Belmont House--historic headquarters of the National Women's Party.
  
• We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
  Learn about Modjeska Monteith Simkins, Daisy Bates, Mary Church Terrell, Elizabeth Harden Gilmore, Ida B. Wells, and Juanita Craft, courageous women who were leaders in the Civil Rights Movement.

Navy women at Floyd Bennett Field, our latest lesson plan National Park Service photo

Teaching with Historic Places
This program offers a series of award-winning lesson plans that use places listed in the National Register to enliven the study of history, social studies, and geography. TwHP has ready-to-use lesson plans, available for free downloading, that examine important aspects of women's history.

Titles include:

• ~NEW~Floyd Bennett Field: Naval Aviation's Home in Brooklyn
• Adeline Hornbek and the Homestead Act: A Colorado Success Story
• Back Stairs at Brucemore: Life as Servants in early 20th-Century America
• The Battle of Prairie Grove: Civilian Recollections of the Civil War
• Birthplace of John F. Kennedy: Home of the Boy Who Would Be President
• Chatham Plantation: Witness to the Civil War
• Clara Barton's House: Home of the American Red Cross
• First Lady of the World: Eleanor Roosevelt at Val-Kill
• From Canterbury to Little Rock:
  The Struggle for Educational Equality for African Americans
• The M'Clintock House: A Home to the Women's Rights Movement
• The Penniman House: A Whaling Story
  
• Two American Entrepreneurs: Madam C.J. Walker and J.C. Penney
  

Eleanor Roosevlet and Fala, the family's dog, at Val-Kill in 1951 Photo from Franklin Delano Roosevelt Libray, 09-2475a

• Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site
  
  
• Maggie L. Walker at Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site (past feature)
• Clara Barton at Clara Barton National Historic Site (past feature)
• Mary J. Colter Properties at Grand Canyon National Park (past feature)
• Lowell National Historical Park (past feature)
• Johnstown Flood National Memorial
  
• Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site
  
• Rosie the Riveter-World War II Home Front National Historical Park
  
• Sewall-Belmont House National Historic Site
  
• Whitman Mission National Historic Site
  
• Women's Rights National Historical Park
  

Eleanor Roosevelt: American Visionary
This dynamic new website celebrates Eleanor Roosevelt, niece of President Theodore Roosevelt and the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor helped transform the role of First Lady and became a champion of domestic social reform, economic justice, and human rights. The website includes virtual tours of historic places associated with the former First Lady, and numerous images of fascination museum objects.

Interpreting Women's History in the National Park Service
This publication focuses on what women's history is, the current status of women's history in the national parks, new ways for scholars of women's history and NPS staff to work together, and the role of the National Park Service in the preservation, commemoration, and interpretation of the history of American women.

National Park Service Uniforms: Breeches, Blouses, and Skirts 1918-1991
The National Park Service has, for most of its existence, been a male dominated organization. Women's role in the Service was never clearly defined until the 1960's, at which time a Victorian mentality prevailed, treating them as objects to be protected, instead of the ranger status to which they aspired. This on-line book tells the story of those women who fought to achieve their goal of equality with their male counterparts not only as rangers, but as rangers with the right to wear the appropriate attire to perform the job.

National Women's History Project
The National Women's History Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to recognizing and celebrating the diverse and historic accomplishments of women by providing information and educational material and programs. The goal of the NWHP is to "make history" accurate by recognizing and celebrating women's contributions through its current and future projects.

National Register Information System
Since its inception in 1966, nearly 76,000 properties have been listed in the National Register. Together these files hold information on nearly one million individual resources--buildings, sites, districts, structures, and objects--and therefore provide a link to the country's heritage at the national, state, and local levels. Search by name, location, agency, or theme to locate National Register properties associated with women's history.

Library of Congress: Built in America (HABS/HAER)
The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) collections document achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States through a comprehensive range of building types and engineering technologies, including sites related to women's history. Searches on keywords like "women's rights," "women," or "rights," will provide information on an array of associated sites. Also try searching on women architects such as Mary Colter, Julia Morgan, Marion Mahoney Griffin; or on famous women such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton or Maggie Walker. Most of the site documentations have publication-quality drawings and photographs, as well as historical data. Furthermore, the Historic American Buildings Survey website provides a brief history of the Sewall-Belmont House, home to the National Woman's Party since 1929.

Women's History Month 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, and 1999
For more information about Women's History related sites listed in the National Register, please visit these past features.

Eudora Welty House | Ellamae Ellis League House | Woman's Athletic Club of San Francisco
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