Frances Perkins (1880-1965) was the first female to serve in a presidential cabinet and worked with Franklin Delano Roosevelt during his entire 1933-1945 “reign.” She was a powerhouse advocate—for immigrants, especially the Jewish people who had no place to live, safely, during the Holocaust.

She lived at 2326 California Street, NW in Washington, DC from 1937 to 1940 during her tenure as U.S. Secretary of Labor. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1991. It is privately owned and not open to the public.

Perkins was the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933–1945. The Frances Perkins Building is the headquarters of the United States Department of Labor; 200 Constitution Ave NW.

The Family Homestead, now Frances Perkins National Monument, is in New Castle, Maine; accessible by following signs from Main Street in Damariscotta.