The Suffragette Memorial Mausoleum

I have created the Suffragette Memorial Mausoleum. The women’s suffrage movement in the U.S. had its beginnings in Seneca Falls, NY in 1848 when like-minded people gathered and Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions,” was delivered.  Seneca Falls, NY would be the site of the mausoleum.

Interred in the memorial would be the six women who I feel were most important to the suffrage movement-

Susan Brownell Anthony, February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902

Alice Paul, January 11, 1885-July 9, 1977

Lucy Burns, July 28, 1879-December 22, 1966

Inez Milholland Boissevain , August 6, 1886 – November 25, 1916

Ruza Wenclawska, d.-1977

The Monument

A beautiful Art Deco monument made of polished grey granite.

 The statue on top of the mausoleum

Inez Millholland on her steed

The round window over the door

Joan of Arc, the suffragettes identified with her.

The door

A pendant created for Alice Paul to commemorate the hunger strikes.

 

The stained glass window on the back wall

 Glass cases on the sides holding-

The ratification flag. A star for every state that ratified the amendment.

A sign from the White House pickets.

The floor will be inlaid with 36 stars that represent the 36 states that ratified the 19th amendment and caused it to pass.

The vaults will be simple with the names of the woman on each vault along with a bronze laurel wreath.

The windows in the cupola will have scenes from the history of the movement-

The Seneca Falls convention of 1848

Force feeding a suffragette.

Unfurling the completed ratification flag.