Nora Houston

Eleanora (or Eleanor) Clare Gibson Houston ( ; was an American painter, women's rights advocate, and suffragist. Born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, Houston studied art at an early age, traveling to New York and abroad, before returning to Richmond to teach and open a studio with Adele Goodman Clark. She was an active participant in the women's suffrage movement in Virginia. She was the niece of James H. Dooley, a Richmond attorney, financier, and philanthropist who would come to own Maymont, and Alice Dooley, a supporter of women's suffrage.

Houston’s father died shortly before her second birthday. Subsequently, Dooley became Houston’s benefactor, financing both her education and her art lessons. in Logan's Franklin Street studio. There Houston would meet her "very intimate friend" and lesbian life partner Adele Goodman Clark. Houston and Clark joined the Art Club of Richmond as teenagers. Houston served as the recording secretary of the league's Richmond chapter from 1914 to 1919 and traveled the state making speeches, assisting with establishing new chapters for the organization, and lobbying legislators. Houston used her artistic skills to design signs, pamphlets, and parade floats to help the league raise awareness about women's suffrage. She also drew maps of Richmond's neighborhoods for the league to use in its outreach efforts. During one speech at Monroe Park, suffrage opponents threw rocks at Houston as she spoke; she kept one of the rocks until her death. Houston and Clark also helped drive black women to the polls on election day. Her funeral was held at St. Peter's Church. She was buried alongside her family in Shockoe Hill Cemetery.

Houston was honored by the Library of Virginia as part of its 2017 class of Virginia Women in History.

Houston's name is featured on the Wall of Honor on the Virginia Women's Monument, located in Capitol Square in Richmond.