The Boston Women's Memorial is a bronze and granite grouping of three figurative sculptures on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall in Boston, Massachusetts, commemorating Phillis Wheatley, Abigail Adams, and Lucy Stone.
[1] A collaboration between the Boston Women's Commission, the Commonwealth Avenue Mall Committee and the Massachusetts Historical Society,[2] supported by Angela Menino, the mayor's wife, developed it over the next twelve years.
[2][5] Despite having taken longer than 12 years to be developed and created, the monument was criticized at the time as a quick-fix attempt to address the lack of female representation in Boston's public art, grouping together three historical figures who merit recognition as individuals.
Stone, for example, is positioned using her pedestal as an editorial desk, working on the Woman's Journal, which she founded.
Local people regularly leave items at or on the statues — scarves around the figure's necks in winter, a Boston Red Sox cap on one's head when the team won the World Series in 2004.