Where Women Made History

Where Women Made History

July 12, 2005

Below is the places and women we are recommending for inclusion in a travel guide of the Pittsburgh area featuring places associated with notable women, to be published later this year by the Pennsylvania Commission for Women:

Women of “Woodville”
“Woodville”
Jane Holmes (1805 – 1885)
Jane Holmes Residence
Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children
Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf
Margaret Morrison Carnegie (1809 -1886)
Margaret Morrison Carnegie Hall
Mother Mary Francis Xavier Warde (1810 – 1884) and the Sisters of Mercy
Mercy Hospital
Carlow College
Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815 – 1884)
Frick Park
Allegheny Cemetery
Anna Margaretta Schmidt Heinz (1822 – 1899)
Heinz Memorial Chapel
Mary Croghan Schenley (1826 – 1903)
Fort Pitt Blockhouse
Schenley Park
Schenley Memorial Fountain
Jane McGrew Smith (1832 – 1911) and Matilda Hudson Smith (1837 – 1909)
Allegheny Widows’ Home Association
Allegheny Observatory
Mary Harris “Mother” Jones (c. 1837 – 1930)
Former Homestead Municipal Building
Julie Katherine Hall Hogg (1839 – 1910)
Fort Pitt Blockhouse
Highland Park
Sarah Sloan Young Heinz (1843 – 1894)
Sarah Heinz House
The Homewood Cemetery
Dr. Louise Wotring Lyle (1843 – 1932)
UPMC
Mary Stevenson Cassatt (1844 – 1926)
Carnegie Museum of Art
Mary Elizabeth Tillinghast (1845 – 1912)
Allegheny Observatory
Caroline Endres Diescher (1846 -1930)
Monongahela Incline
Duquesne Incline
Jane Ferguson Wood (1855 – 1938)
Allegheny County Morgue
Margaret Wade Campbell Deland (1857 – 1945)
Liverpool Street
Lillian Russell Moore (1861 – 1922)
Hotel Schenley
City-County Building
Allegheny Cemetery
Alice B. Montgomery (1862 – 1926)
Allegheny County Jail
Victims of the Allegheny Arsenal Explosion (1862)
Arsenal Park
Allegheny Cemetery
Margaret Boyle Brown (1862 – 1938)
The Homewood Cemetery
Nellie Bly (1864 – 1922)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Building
Anne Lee Willet (1866 – 1943)
Calvary Episcopal Church
Elise Mercur Wagner (1869 – 1947)
Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church
McIlvaine Hall
The Times Building
Ellen Biddle Shipman (1869 – 1950)
“Elm Cottage”
Willa Cather (1873 – 1947)
1180 Murray Hill Avenue
Clara Miller Burd (1873 – 1933)
St. Andrew’s Church
Gertrude Stein (1874 – 1946)
850 Beech Avenue
Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876 – 1958)
954 Beech Avenue
Hillman Library
Margaret F. Byington (1877 – 1965)
The Bost Building
Alice Bennet Sotter (1882 – 1967)
Carnegie Mellon University
Sacred Heart Church
Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt (1882 – 1963)
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
Frances Perkins (1882 – 1965)
Homestead Police Station
Jennie Bradley Roessing (1882 – 1963)
The Twentieth Century Club
Mary Flinn Lawrence (1886 – 1974)
Hartwood Acres
The Homewood Cemetery
Sara Mathilde Soffel (1886 – 1976)
Allegheny County Courthouse
Schenley High School
University of Pittsburgh
Rachel Pears McClelland Sutton (1887 – 1982)
Sunnyledge Hotel & Tea Room
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
Daisy Lampkin (1888 – 1965)
2519 Webster Avenue
The Homewood Cemetery
Helen Clay Frick (1888 – 1984)
The Frick Art & Historical Center
Frick Park
The Homewood Cemetery
Eliza Jane Kennedy Smith (1889 -1964)
City-County Building
The Homewood Cemetery
Perle Mesta (1889 – 1975)
Mesta House
Mesta Machine Company
The Homewood Cemetery
Agnes Lynch Starrett (1889 – 1988)
University of Pittsburgh
Chatham Village
Ruth Crawford Mitchell (1890 -1984)
Nationality Rooms, Cathedral of Learning
Mary Cardwell Dawson (1894 – 1962)
7101 Apple Street
Aurora Reading Club (1894 to the Present)
Carnegie Library of Homestead
Martha Graham (1894 – 1991)
Carnegie Music Hall
Andy Warhol Museum
Frances Van Arsdale Skinner (1895 – 1979)
German Nationality Room, Cathedral of Learning
Dr. Selma Burke (1900 – 1995)
Carnegie Museum of Art
Hill House Center
Kingsley Association
Maxine Goldmark Aaron (1903 – 1996)
Pittsburgh Board of Education
Rodef Shalom Congregation
Sarah Mellon Scaife (1903 – 1965)
Scaife Gallery, Carnegie Museum of Art
Kathryn Kuhlman (1907 -1976)
First Presbyterian Church
Hazlett Theater
Carnegie Music Hall
4405 Bigelow Boulevard
Rachel Carson (1907 – 1964)
Rachel Carson Homestead
Chatham College
Margaret Winters (1907 – 1979)
Carnegie Mellon University
Chatham Village
Old Economy Village
Point State Park
Helen Richey (1909 -1947)
Allegheny County Airport
Helen Richie Field, Renzie Park
Helen Richie Monument
McKeesport-Versailles Cemetery
Gladys Schmitt (1909 -1972)
Schenley High School
Carnegie Mellon University
St. Peter’s Cemetery
Mary Lou Williams (1910 -1981)
Lincoln Elementary School
Crawford Grill
Kelly-Strayhorn Theater
Susan E. Laird (dates unknown); Josephine McKim (1910, death date unknown); Lenora Kight Wingard (1911 – 2000); and Anna Mae Gorman (b. 1916)
Carnegie Library of Homestead
Sarah Evosevich (1912 – 2001)
52 South Tenth Street
Agnes Katz (1915 – 1987)
Agnes Katz Plaza
Junior League of Pittsburgh (since 1922)
Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh
Josie Carey (1930- 2004)
WQED Multimedia Communications
Norma-Jean Wofford Richardson, aka Duchess (c. 1942 – 2005)
Mellon Arena
Infamous Pittsburgh Women

Kate Soffell (1868 – 1909)
Allegheny County Jail
Smithfield East End Cemetery
Evelyn Nesbitt (1884 – 1967)
806 Washington Road
Sally the Shape, Fifi La Ferne, Miss Hope Diamond, among others (1930s)
Harris Theater