National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House
17 Madison Street
Rochester, NY
The National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House was the longtime home of legendary suffragist, abolitionist, and civil rights leader Susan B. Anthony.
From her home on Madison Street, Anthony conducted many of her most significant political activities, including the writing of fiery speeches, petitions, and campaigns.
Although Anthony, who served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, traveled widely, she always returned to her beloved Rochester home.
Next door to Anthony's home is a visitor center that contains numerous items from Anthony’s storied life, including memorabilia, artifacts, furnishings, and photographs. As the Susan B. Anthony House notes, visitors can walk through the rooms where Anthony met often with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and other leaders of the civil rights movement. They can stand in the parlor where Anthony was arrested in 1872 for the "crime" of voting. And they can imagine the conversations she conducted, over cups of tea in her upstairs parlor, with famed abolitionist and fellow Rochesterian Frederick Douglass.
Although Anthony died in 1906 without ever casting a legal vote, the 19th "Susan B. Anthony" Amendment was finally ratified fourteen years after her death, and women throughout America were able to make their voices heard at polling places throughout the United States. She is buried in the historic Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, where hers is one of the cemetery’s most-visited gravesites. In fact, it has become a Rochester tradition for voters to visit Anthony’s grave on Election Day and leave their “I voted” stickers on her gravestone.