Kate Mullany House

Infobox_nrhp2 | name = Kate Mullany House
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location= 350 8th Street, Troy, NY
lat_degrees = 42 | lat_minutes = 44 | lat_seconds = 23.64 | lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 73 | long_minutes = 40 | long_seconds = 54.49 | long_direction = W
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built =1869
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architecture= Italianate
designated_nhl= April 1, 1998cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=-2025232058&ResourceType=Building
title=Kate Mullany House|date=2007-09-15|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = April 01, 1998cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
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refnum=98000453 The Kate Mullany House was the home of Kate Mullany (1845-1906), an early female labor leader who started the all-women Collar Laundry Union in Troy, New York in February 1864. It was one of the first women's unions that lasted longer than the resolution of a specific issue.

The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1998.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/98000453.pdf National Historic Landmark Nomination—Kate Mullany House] |864 KB|author=Page Putnam Miller, Jill S. Mesirow, Andrew Laas, John W. Bond, and Rachel Bliven |date=September 4, 1997|publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/98000453.pdf Accompanying 2 photos, from 1994.] |493 KB] It is now a National Historic Site.

It is located at 350 8th Street in Troy, just off NY 7 two blocks east of the Collar City Bridge.

Designation as a National Historic Site

Then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton toured the house in 2000, and named it as a "treasure". [ [http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/EOP/First_Lady/html/treasures/715a.html First Lady's offcial web site Treasure Tour page] . Accessed January 24, 2008. ] Senator Daniel P. Moynihan had introduced a bill to designate the home as a National Historic Site, but the bill had languished in the United States Senate.fact|date=January 2008

Senator Clinton took up the bill in January 2001 when Moynhian retired, and she advocated for the home. [ [http://clinton.senate.gov/issues/women/ Senator Clinton's official issues page] . Accessed January 24, 2008.] There were hearings on the bill, [ [http://energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Testimony&Hearing_ID=978&Witness_ID=169 Hearing Testimony on the Kate Mullany House NHS bill] . Accessed January 24, 2008. ] and the Congressional Budget Office undertook an official budget analysis for the United States Congress. [ [http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/38xx/doc3886/hr464.pdf Congressional Budget Office offciial web site page on the cost estimate] . Accessed January 24, 2008.] The bill was co-sponsored by Senator Clinton and Representative Mike McNulty, supported by organized labor, [ [http://www.ibtstw.org/welcome/mullanyhouse.html Bill for NHS from the Teamsters web site] . Accessed January 24, 2008.] and passed both houses of Congress. [ [http://www.govnotes.com/Historic_Sites/_Kate_Mullany_National_Historic_Site.htm Bill for NHS from GovNotes web site] . Accessed January 24, 2008.] [ [http://www.govrecords.org/s-1241-rs-to-establish-the-kate-mullany-national.html Bill from gov records] . Accessed January 24, 2008.] [ [http://www.house.gov/mcnulty/pr041118.htm Bill passed, Mike McNulty's official web site] . Accessed January 24, 2008.] [ [http://www.glin.gov/view.action?glinID=183363 Global Legal Information Network on the NHS bill] . Accessed January 24, 2008.]

Recognition of the house

The Kate Mullany House is recognized by a number of government agencies and charities as an important historic site. Both the house, [ [http://www.katemullanynhs.org/ Kate Mullany House National Historic Site official web site] . Accessed January 24, 2008.] and Kate Mullany's grave, [ [http://www.katemullanynhs.org/grave Kate Mullany grave official web page] . Accessed January 24, 2008.] are preserved as historic sites by an affiliate of the Federal government. Wiawaka, a women's camp in Lake George, New York, has memorialized the house. [ [http://www.wiawaka.org/mullaney.html Wiawaka web site page on Kate Mullany] . Accessed January 24, 2008.] The New York State Senate honored the house and its most famous resident for Women's History Month in March 2007. [ [http://www.senate.state.ny.us/sws/wod/lb_mullany.html NY State Senate Women's History month web page] . Accessed January 24, 2008.] The house is also on the New York Women's Heritage Trail. [ [http://www.heritageny.gov/women/sites.cfm?id=156&topic=women New York Women's Heritage Trail official web site] . Accessed January 24, 2008.]

References

External links

* [http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/pwwmh/ny18.htm Places Where Women Made History: the Kate Mullany House, at National Park Service]