The Woman's Club of San Antonio

Both founders went on to lead the fight for woman suffrage. Under Eleanor Brackenridge the club moved from literary topics to causes such as police matrons, women probation officers and vocational education. She published The Legal Status of Texas Women in 1911, became president of the San Antonio Equal Franchise Society in 1912, and in 1913 led the new Texas Woman Suffrage Association. Marin B. Fenwick, a classmate of Jane Addams at Rockford Female Seminary, wrote for the San Antonio Express for decades and in 1905 sailed around the world with the Brackenridges, meeting suffrage leaders abroad.

What the plaque says

The Woman's Club of San Antonio Formed in 1898 by Philanthropist Eleanor Brackenridge (1837-1924) and journalist Marin B. Fenwick with eighteen charter members, the Woman's Club of San Antonio was the first departmental club in Texas. Miss Brackenridge served for seven years as the group's first president. The activities of this charitable organization have advanced voting and education for women, social reforms, and the arts. The group purchased its first clubhouse in 1908. This structure, built-in 1907-08 as the residence of business and civic leader David J. Woodward, was acquired by the Woman's Club in 1926. (1975)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Spanish Governor's Palace — 1.8 mi
  The last visible piece of the Presidio San Antonio de Béxar: a presidio captain's house with a 1749 keystone, a century as shops and saloons, and a romantic 1930 restoration.
• San Fernando Cathedral — 1.8 mi
  The Canary Islanders' parish church on Main Plaza, where Bowie married and Santa Anna raised a red flag, rebuilt in Gothic Revival around the walls of the 1750s church.
• The Alamo — 1.9 mi
  Mission San Antonio de Valero before it was a fort: a church its builders never finished, a thirteen-day siege in 1836, and the Army gable of 1850-52 that became its emblem.
• Casa Navarro State Historic Site — 1.9 mi
  The adobe and caliche-block home of José Antonio Navarro, a native-born signer of the 1836 declaration, and the last remnant of the Tejano neighborhood called Laredito.

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• Belknap Place — 0.3 mi
• Committee on Public Safety — 0.3 mi
• Old San Pedro Springs — 0.3 mi