Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument

The Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument is a narrow, four-story brick house at the corner of Constitution Avenue and Second Street. Its distinctive dark gray shutters and red-brick facade stand apart from the massive marble government buildings nearby. Inside, the National Woman's Party plotted the final push for the nineteenth amendment. Alva Belmont bought this house in nineteen twenty-nine specifically to serve as their headquarters, ensuring the suffragists held a permanent, strategic foothold directly across from the United States Capitol.