{"nrhp_refnum":"66000528","name":"Anthony, Susan B., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"17 Madison St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rochester","county":"Monroe County","state":"NY","lat":43.15318546700004,"lon":-77.62807094950672,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1966-10-15","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1965-06-23","areas_of_significance":["Social History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick house at 17 Madison Street in Rochester, Monroe County, New York, built in 1845. It was Susan B. Anthony's home for forty years and is now a house-museum.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the house is significant for its association with Susan B. Anthony, a leading figure in the nineteenth-century woman's rights movement. It served as her home for forty years and is relatively unchanged from the time she lived there. It is maintained as a memorial in her honor.","narrative":"Susan B. Anthony lived for forty years in this two-story brick house at 17 Madison Street in Rochester, New York. Built in 1845, it has a wood trim, a steep shingled gable roof, a basement and an attic. A front section with a side hall plan joins a slightly narrower, lower rear section holding the dining room, kitchen and bedrooms. Anthony's study sits above the back parlor, and the attic rooms served as study and office space. The house remained a private residence until 1945, when a memorial corporation acquired it and adapted it as a museum. Donated belongings, including furnishings, clothing and the front parlor lace curtains, many of them hers, fill the rooms. Little has changed structurally; only utilities and the kitchen were modernized. The property matters because Anthony was a central leader of the woman's rights movement in the later nineteenth century, organizing petition drives, helping found a national suffrage association and working for the vote. The house is the place most closely tied to her life.","period_of_significance":"1866-1906","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Maintained as a house-museum by the Susan B. Anthony Memorial Corporation since 1945; the basement is the only area not kept as part of the museum.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.078657-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/66000528_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000528/4d03fecb90-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000528/4d03fecb90-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"J. Carl Burke, Jr.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Susan_B_Anthony_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">J. Carl Burke, Jr.</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Susan_B_Anthony_House.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"88002382","name":"Madison Square-West Main Street Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/madison-square-west-main-street-historic-district-88002382/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315799","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_B._Anthony_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7647528"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/monroe-county/anthony-susan-b-house-66000528/"}