Women's Rights National Historic Park (Boundary Increase)

Four separate properties in Seneca Falls and Waterloo, New York, make up this park district tied to the women's rights movement. Two units are in Seneca Falls: the Wesleyan Chapel site with the adjoining Visitor Center, and the Elizabeth Cady Stanton House. Two are in Waterloo: the M'Clintock House and the Hunt House. Together they cover 7.44 acres. The chapel, built in 1843, hosted the First Women's Rights Convention in July 1848, where attendees discussed and signed the Declaration of Sentiments; 68 women and 32 men signed. Later owners altered the chapel heavily as an opera house, garage and laundromat, and the National Park Service stripped back later additions and rebuilt it in 2010 around the surviving original brick walls and roof trusses. The Visitor Center is a 1915 automobile showroom that later served as the village hall. Congress established the park in 1980, and this amended documentation updates the resource count and boundary and adds the Visitor Center, Chamberlain House and Young House.