Frances Perkins National Monument
The Brick House, barns, fields, stone walls, and family papers connect Frances Perkins’s New Deal work to a Maine landscape she returned to throughout her life.
Artwork inspired by Marguerite Zorach
The family homestead grounds a labor reformer’s national legacy. The Brick House, barns, fields, stone walls, and family papers connect Frances Perkins’s New Deal work to a Maine landscape she returned to throughout her life. The place makes policy personal without shrinking its consequences.
Walk the landscape before a building program, noting how household economy and inherited responsibility shaped Perkins’s idea of public service. This new national monument is developing public operations; grounds and tours may have different schedules and reservation requirements. At Frances Perkins National Monument, the most rewarding visit connects objects, spaces, and interpretation instead of treating the institution as a checklist.
- Established
- 2024
- Subject
- Frances Perkins
- Landscape
- 57 acres
Quick guide
- Start with
- Walk the landscape before a building program, noting how household economy and inherited responsibility shaped Perkins’s idea of public service.
- Look closely at
- Compare stone walls with Perkins family landscape; the relationship reveals something the headline feature alone cannot.
Know before you go
- Start with
- Walk the landscape before a building program, noting how household economy and inherited responsibility shaped Perkins’s idea of public service.
- Look closely at
- Compare stone walls with Perkins family landscape; the relationship reveals something the headline feature alone cannot.
- Connect the story
- Connect the homestead’s working landscape and family papers to Perkins’s ideas about labor, security, and federal responsibility.
- Plan around
- Check the official calendar before leaving, then protect time for Perkins family landscape after Brick House establishes the main story.
Good to know
This new national monument is developing public operations; grounds and tours may have different schedules and reservation requirements.
Notice these
- Brick House
- stone walls
- Perkins family landscape