Lucy Diggs Slowe and Mary Burrill House National Historic Landmark Nomination

Ferentinos S. 2024. Lucy Diggs Slowe and Mary Burrill House National Historic Landmark Nomination. National Historic Landmark Nominations. 100011383_NHL. National Park Service. Washington, DC

This document is the National Historic Landmark (NHL) nomination for the Lucy Diggs Slowe and Mary Burrill House in Washington, DC. The NHL nomination for the Lucy Diggs Slowe and Mary Burrill House documents its national significance under NHL Criteria 1 and 2. The house is significant under Criterion 2 as the home of African American educator Lucy Diggs Slowe. As the first dean of women at Howard University, she advocated for educational parity between men and women students at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and brought the educational theory of student personnel (now known as student affairs) into HBCUs, and helped racially integrate the profession of women’s deans. The property is nationally significant under Criterion 1 for its outstanding ability to illustrate the broad national pattern of female partnership in the early twentieth century. Such partnerships enabled middle-class women to enter the professions by allowing them to pool financial and emotional resources and avoid the stigma of a woman living and traveling alone. The period of national significance is 1922-1937.

Type
Published Report
Authors
Ferentinos, Susan
Date of Issue
2024-12-13
Publisher
National Park Service
Keywords
District of Columbia, education, HBCU, LGBTQ, National Historic Landmark, Washington, women

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