Program

National Votes for Women Trail

Subject

House, People

Location

1340 Pennsylvania St, Denver, CO 80203, USA

Lat/Long

39.737474, -104.980994

Grant Recipient

National Collaborative for Women's History Sites

Please note, this marker has been reported stolen as of 11/6/2023. If you have any information about its disappearance or location, contact the Denver Police Department. 

In 1893, Colorado voters approved women’s suffrage through a referendum, giving Colorado women the right to vote. After this, Colorado suffragists worked for women’s suffrage at the national level. Margaret “Molly” Brown (1867–1932), was a national advocate for women’s suffrage and labor rights. In 1914, she joined the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and attended a suffrage convention hosted by Alva Belmont at her Marble House mansion in Rhode Island. Soon after, Brown was proposed as a candidate for U.S. Senate by the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. In addition to women’s suffrage, Brown supported labor issues, including improved pay and working conditions for mine workers in Colorado. Brown however withdrew from consideration before the election. With the onset of World War I, she began serving with the Red Cross in France.

Brown became known by the moniker “Unsinkable Molly Brown” in reference to her survival of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, on which she was a first-class passenger. In the 1970s, the Molly Brown House Museum was opened in her former home on Pennsylvania Street in Denver, Colorado.

Links

• Molly Brown House Museum