Sewall-Belmont House (Nat'l Woman's Party Headquarters)
- Year
- 2016
- City
- Washington, DC
The building at 144 Constitution Avenue NE has carried three names tied to its changing role: the Sewall House from 1800 to 1929, the Alva Belmont House from 1929 to 1972, and the Sewall–Belmont House and Museum from 1972 to 2016. Since 1929 it has served as headquarters of the National Woman's Party, the organization associated with suffragists Alva Belmont and Alice Paul that fought for women's suffrage and equal rights.
significance
The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1974. It operated as an affiliated unit of the National Park Service from 1972 to 2016, when President Barack Obama redesignated it the Belmont–Paul Women's Equality National Monument.
nearby
- Hiram W. Johnson House
- Supreme Court
- Senate Office Building (Russell Senate Office Building)
- Folger Shakespeare Library
- Library of Congress
- Thomas Jefferson Building