Alice Austen (1866 - 1952) captured a changing New York City in more than &000 photographs mostly taken around the turn of the twentieth century. The Alice Austen House is the only museum in America dedicated to the work of a single female photographer. In June 2017 the Alice Austen House, where Austen and her life partner, Gertrude Tate, lived together for nearly 30 years, marked its national designation as a site of LGBTQ history.

The Alice Austen House fosters creative expression, explores personal identity, and educates and inspires the public through the interpretation of the photographs, life and historic home of pioneering American women photographer, Alice Austen.