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.

The family homestead of Frances Perkins — the Labor secretary under FDR — is now a national monument. 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.

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).