sentences:  The stand-alone legislation authorizing condemnation of the buildings on the site exempted the Belmont–Paul (then Sewall–Belmont) House from demolition, but not the two adjacent buildings which it used as apartments for its members when visiting Washington over many decades to organize and lobby on behalf of all aspects of Women's Equality.Architects wanted this land for an entrance to a planned underground parking garage.This legislation cleared the Senate Committee on Public Works in October 1967.