President Joe Biden on Monday designated the Frances Perkins Homestead in Newcastle, Maine, a national monument to honor the legacy of the first woman to serve in a presidential Cabinet and longest-serving secretary of labor.

President Joe Biden has designated a new national monument in Maine honoring the country's first female cabinet secretary Frances Perkins. Perkins, a native of Massachusetts, was a key architect of some of nation's most sweeping labor laws and reforms.

President Joe Biden on Monday established a national monument honoring the late FDR-era Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve in a presidential Cabinet and a driving force behind Franklin D.

President Joe Biden on Monday will sign a proclamation establishing a national monument in Maine honoring Frances Perkins, the first woman to sit in the presidential Cabinet who was responsible for many of today's social safety nets.

Far from the woods of Maine and the government buildings of Washington, Frances Perkins grew up at 18 Cottage St. in Worcester. She attended the Oxford Street School and Classical High School in Worcester (later merged into Doherty Memorial High School).

President Joe Biden elevated the Frances Perkins Homestead National Historic Landmark in Maine to national monument status Monday, honoring the nation’s first female Cabinet secretary and an architect of the New Deal.

As labor secretary, Perkins helped President Franklin D. Roosevelt formulate policies behind the 1930s New Deal.