Site of the Votes for Women Shop

The Votes for Women Shop occupied 205 Tremont Street. The building no longer stands.

NPS Photo/Woods

Quick Facts

Location:

205 Tremont Street

Significance:

Site of the Votes for Women Shop

OPEN TO PUBLIC:

No

MANAGED BY:

Private Building

The Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government (BESAGG) opened a new "Votes for Women" shop on Tremont Street in 1915. The Woman’s Journal reported that on opening day, “the shop itself was filled with men and women until late in the evening.”¹

Open every day, people dropped in to hear discussions on suffrage or purchased suffrage-related items and literature.² Suffragists also held successful meetings and events throughout the week during which they discussed local and national suffrage activity or listened to speakers.³

Footnotes:

1. “Massachusetts,” The Woman’s Journal (Jan 9, 1915), Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:53700401$19i.
2. “Massachusetts,” The Woman’s Journal (Jan 2, 1915), Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:53700401$12i.
3. Selection of 1915 Boston Globe articles on January 15, 18, 19 and February 1 and 22 speak to a variety of talks and events at the Votes for Women Shop. See also, “Massachusetts,” The Woman’s Journal (Feb 6, 1915), Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:53700401$50i.