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Mary Foote Henderson (July 21, 1842 – July 16, 1931) was an American author, real estate developer, and social activist from the U.S. state of New York who was known as "The Empress of Sixteenth Street". Henderson was a notable supporter of women's suffrage, temperance and vegetarianism.
Mary Henderson was a proponent of women's suffrage, vegetarianism and temperance. She published The Aristocracy of Health in 1904. When John Henderson died in 1913 she poured his entire cellar of wines into the gutter on 16th Street NW.
29 de jul. de 2011 · Of all the wealthy people who moved to Washington to exert power and influence in the Gilded Age, one of the most powerful and influential was Mary Foote Henderson (1846-1931), who turned her City Beautiful dreams into reality along upper 16th Street.
Henderson had the large area of land surrounding her mansion designed into a beautiful, residential area. She erected mansions to the specifications of foreign diplomats, and rented the stunning homes of Sixteenth Street to the embassies of France, Italy, Spain, Cuba, Mexico and Poland.
Mary Foote Henderson (21 de julio de 1842 - 16 de julio de 1931) fue una autora, desarrolladora inmobiliaria y activista social estadounidense del estado estadounidense de Nueva York, conocida como "La Emperatriz de la Calle Dieciséis".
30 de dic. de 2000 · In 1888, Mary Newton Foote Henderson, a woman as beautiful as she was obstinate, believed she could change, if not the world, at least the District of Columbia.
One woman hiding in the Archives is Mary Foote Henderson. Born in 1842, in Seneca Falls, New York, the daughter of a prominent judge, she was educated at Grove Ladies Seminary (now Skidmore College) and Washington University.
