This list is an expansion of the “Places to Visit” list in the back of “Women Win the Vote.” In it, I’ve included places that celebrate women and men that are in the book, as well as others who worked for woman suffrage. The sites are listed in roughly chronological order, when the people they commemorate are first mentioned in the book. 

Women’s Rights National Historical Park (Seneca Falls, New York). Landmarks of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention are open, including the Wesleyan Chapel, Elizabeth Cady Stanton house, and the home of Mary Ann M’Clintock, another organizer of the convention. 

Lucretia Mott Memorial Plaque (La Mott, Pennsylvania). Lucretia Mott’s home of 30 years, Roadside, once stood in this neighborhood that borders Philadelphia along Cheltenham Avenue. A plaque here commemorates her work for women’s rights. Her home was also a stop on the Underground Railroad.

The National Museum of American History (Washington, DC). The “American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith” exhibit contains artifacts from the battle for the women’s vote, including banners, posters, pins, and a suffrage wagon.

The Library of Congress (Washington, DC). The library’s suffrage exhibit, “Shall Not Be Denied,” runs through September 2020.

The National Archives Museum (Washington, DC). The museum’s suffrage exhibit, “Rightfully Hers,” runs through January 3, 2021. 

The Portrait Monument (Washington, DC). A statue portraying Stanton, Anthony, and Mott stands in the Capitol Rotunda. It was commissioned by the National Woman’s Party in 1920 and carved by Adelaide Johnson, but was in storage until 1997.  

Sojourner Truth Memorial (Florence, Massachusetts). The abolitionist and women’s rights champion is memorialized with a statue here. 

Sojourner Truth Statue (Battle Creek, Michigan). Truth lived in Battle Creek from 1857 until her death in 1883). The statue was designed by California artist Tina Allen.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). Watkins Harper lived at a brick townhome at 1006 Bainbridge Street during her productive years as an anti-slavery and women’s rights activist. She was also a prolific poet and author, and the first black woman to publish a short story in a magazine.

Frederick Douglass House (Washington, DC). Cedar Hill was the last home of the former slave and antislavery activist. The home and exhibits and an interpretive film are available for visitors. 

Susan B. Anthony House (Rochester, New York). Home of the women’s suffrage and civil rights leader and site of her arrest for voting in a presidential election. 

Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum (Adams, Massachusetts). Childhood home of the suffragist that provides a family and community context for her life. The museum displays textiles and furnishings of the period, as well as literature and memorabilia. 

Antoinette Brown Blackwell House. (Henrietta, New York). This home at 1099 Pinnacle Road was the childhood home of Blackwell, the first woman to be ordained in a mainstream American church. The house is a private residence and not open to the public, but can be viewed from the street. 

Mary Ann Shadd Cary House (Washington, DC). Shadd Cary’s home at 1421 W Street NW is a National Historic Landmark. The house is a private residence and not open to the public, but can be viewed from the street. 

The Matilda Joslyn Gage Home and Foundation (Fayetteville, New York). Gage’s home as an adult is now a museum, research facility, and educational foundation that contains Native American, Underground Railroad, and other exhibits.

The Frances Willard House Museum and Willard Memorial Library and Archives (Evanston, Illinois). Rest Cottage was Willard’s family home from the age of eighteen and the headquarters of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. 

Frances Willard Statue (Washington, DC). A statue of Willard stands in National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, DC.

Carrie Chapman Catt Girlhood Home and Museum (Charles City, Iowa). Visitors can tour Catt’s childhood home, gain information in the interpretive center, and walk through the surrounding apple orchards and native prairie.

Ida B. Wells-Barnett House (Chicago, Illinois). The home at 3624 S. Martin Luther King Drive is a National Historic Landmark. The house is a private residence and not open to the public, but can be viewed from the street. 

Mary Church Terrell Exhibit (Washington, DC).  This exhibit at Terrell Place (7th and F Streets) commemorates Terrell’s civil rights activism, including the sit-ins she led at Hecht’s Department Store, which was once at this site. 

Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument (Washington, DC). Headquarters of the National Woman’s Party from 1929 onward. It contains National Woman’s Party information and suffrage artifacts and an extensive collection of Nina Allender’s artwork for The Suffragist. 

Cameron House (Washington, DC). This house at 21 Madison Place NW was the headquarters of Alice Paul’s National Woman’s Party while the Silent Sentinels picketed the White House. Today it is the Benjamin Ogle Tayloe House. The house is not open to the public, but from its front door, the White House gates can be seen, as well as the statue of Lafayette under which suffragists built bonfires.

National Women’s Party Headquarters (Washington, DC). The party operated out of this townhouse from 1918 to 1920 at 14 Jackson Place, across from Lafayette Square. The townhouse is almost unrecognizable today and is now 722 Jackson Place. 

Lucy Burns Museum (Lorton, Virginia). This museum in a renovated building of the Occoquan Workhouse displays original jail cells and a history of the suffragists’ imprisonment. It is on the campus of the Workhouse Arts Center, part of the Northern Virginia Arts and Culture District. 

Lucy Burns Family Home (Brooklyn, New York). This row home at 904 President Street in Park Slope was the home of Burns’s family, to which she often returned as an adult. The building is now a rental property and not open to the public, but can be viewed from the street. 

Jeannette Rankin Statue (Washington, DC). Jeannette Rankin’s statue is one of two statues contributed by the state of Montana to the National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol Building.

Paulsdale and the Alice Paul Institute (Mount Laurel, New Jersey). Alice Paul’s childhood home is open for tours and contains an exhibit and a video of her suffrage work. The Institute’s library is available to researchers.

National Women’s Hall of Fame (Seneca Falls, New York). This museum at 1 Canal Street celebrating the achievements of women is slated to open in June 2020. It is located in the town where the first women’s rights convention was held.