Sewall-Belmont House, a women’s-history museum on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.
Exterior view of the Sewall-Belmont House, a women’s-history museum on Capitol Hill, Washington D.C., USA. Robert Sewall built the main house in 1800. Over the years, the house has undergone several architectural changes and restorations. The house remained in the possession of Sewall descendants until 1922, when it was purchased by U.S. Senator Porter H. Dale of Vermont. In 1929, Dale sold it to the National Woman’s Party, and it has been the party’s headquarters since. Today it is a museum of the U.S. women’s suffrage and equal rights movements. Carol Highsmith, photographer. Photographed: [between 1980 and 2006]. 1 color transparency; 4 x 5 in. or smaller. Forms part of the Selects Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2011; (DLC/PP-2011:124).