Previously known as the Sewall-Belmont House, this monument has been home to the National Woman’s Party since 1929. It’s where Alice Paul, the party’s founder, wrote language for the 1943 Equal Rights Amendment proposal and drafted hundreds of pieces of other legislation for equal rights protections.
The house, built by a man named Robert Sewall in 1800, was burned to the ground by the British during the War of 1812. It was rebuilt and used by the Sewall family, then a Vermont senator, until the NWP bought it in 1929. The party renamed it the Alva Belmont House after its former president. It has since become known as the Sewall-Belmont house, and now the Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument.