Place: Ellen Swallow Richards House
Address: 32 Eliot Street
Neighborhood: Jamaica Plain
After finding the Footlight Club on October 25, 2013, I continued along Eliot Street to find the house of Ellen Swallow Richards, who was the first woman to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This location is also a part of the Boston Women's Heritage Trail.
To visit, ride bus route 38, 39 or 41 to the center of Jamaica Plain and walk a bit on Eliot Street.
"In 1870 Ellen Swallow Richards (1842-1911) was the first woman admitted to MIT. She was a woman pioneer in scientific education, and was one of the founders of the American Association of University Women. Her varied career included early studies in urban sanitation and industrial chemistry. She applied scientific inquiry to problems of daily home life, and is credited with starting the home economics movement in America."
To learn more about the Ellen Swallow Richards:
http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/pwwmh/ma67.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Swallow_Richards_House
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Swallow_Richards
