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Women of Ormond

Historic Room

Mary Belle Price

She helped build the Ormond Hotel

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Old Window

Margaret Stout

She helped build the Ormond Hotel

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Countryside Homes

The MacDonald House

The other building with which we are most closely associated is the MacDonald House at 38 E. Granada Blvd., where we operate a Welcome Center for the City and have our offices. The Mac House (as everyone calls it) was built by a well-known area architect, Sumner Gove, who built many area landmarks, in 1903.  The person having it built was a woman, Margaret Stout, who worked at the Hotel Ormond. It is named for Billy MacDonald and his family, who purchased it in 1939. They were well known as the owners of Billy’s Tap Room, a mainstay of Ormond Beach social life for many years. Just stop for a minute and think about all the people and events that house has seen in the last 117 years!

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surprised baby

Planned Parenthood

Blanche Ames Ames was part of the women's suffrage movement which eventually evolved into ratifying the Constitution for Amendment 19; The right for women to vote.

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Vote

Suffrage

Protests began for the voting rights act to be passed by Congress. Black women were still not considered to be part of the vote. The women of Ormond Beach took a stand and put together demonstrations to help black women get recognized.

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Old Documents

19th Amendment

Women had the right to vote. Nevertheless, these women's persisted focuses on the work necessary to win the 1920 ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment granting women the vote.

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