This story was updated at 3:05 p.m. EST.
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.
Biden issued the proclamation — the eighth national monument he has created under the Antiquities Act — in a ceremony at the Labor Department, which Perkins led for 12 years under former President Franklin Roosevelt.
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“Frances Perkins and a generation of activist and labor leaders laid the groundwork for much of what we’ve accomplished in the last four years,” Biden said at Labor’s Frances Perkins Building, which was named after the former secretary in 1980.
