Ellen Swallow Richards House - View this location on map In 1870 Ellen Swallow Richards (1842-1911) was the first woman admitted to MIT. She was a woman pioneer in scientific education, and was one of the founders of the American Association of University Women. Her varied career included early studies in urban sanitation and industrial chemistry. She applied scientific inquiry to problems of daily home life, and is credited with starting the home economics movement in America. Boston Women's Heritage Trail 32 Eliot St. , Boston, MA Historical

---