Susan B. Anthony Museum & House

I was in Rochester for weekend and planned yo see this museum and house. I absolutely love the gift shop and museum located inside the visitor center which is the home of one of her relatives whom I cannot remember at the moment. Tour guide was Emma Lynch and the store and museum volunteer was Eileen Bisha and both were super friendly and very knowledgeable. The tour is at least 1 hour and may go over 10-15 minutes. But the tour guide gives great details of her life. I absolutely love the selection of items at the gift shop and I learned that she and Frederick Douglas were friends and worked together for many years. I love that the gift shop has items for sale that depict such men. The Susan B. Anthony house is where she and her sister Mary lived. There is a free parking lot for visitors next to museum. Veterans pay $15 for tour. I highly recommend visiting this home! But be sure to look at your hours and there is no reason to book online unless large group especially if veteran because the discount isn’t online.

The Susan B. Anthony Museum & House is a beautifully kept piece of history in our own backyard. My wife, her cousin and I decided to head over on a sunny and hot Saturday afternoon. We went into the museum to buy tickets and browsed for about 10 minutes until the next tour time started. Armani was our guide and she was lovely. She shared many fun facts along with the history that made our guided tour fun. I had no idea why Susan was always pictured so you only saw her side profile and now I know. The home is filled with many historic items, some from when Susan lived there while others reflect the time period of when Susan was alive. The time and energy that went into the house when she lived there is astounding. The third floor was one of my favorite areas. The lady with the alligator purse nursery rhyme was a personal favorite that I had never heard before my tour. Both the museum and the house are air conditioned. We ended up visiting the cemetery afterward to visit both Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass’ graves. Maps are provided at the museum if you are interested in doing that after a tour.

Must see stop for any history buff. It's a guided tour but the Docents are great. Sara was our Docent and she did a fabulous job with the information and answering our questions. What a neat place to visit from our country's history. Strongly recommend!!!

Wow! Great tour with Jackie. Home had many original Susan B Anthony artifacts. Fascinating tour, great gift shop and friendly staff.

We did not take the house tour. The museum is tiny, but the display is thorough - Four walls of a small room covered with info boards, containing photos and snippets of her historical timeline. I read everything slowly enough to absorb and finished in about 30 minutes. So, 5stars for a quick and free event stop and the friendly reception from the lady at the front desk. We were on our way to the airport and it was perfect for the time we had to spare. There is also a reception area, gift shop and restroom.

Both my husband and I just want to say thank you for keeping her legacy alive. I've wanted to visit the museum for a few years. But being self-employed got in the way. We made our reservations online and showed up early. Private and street parking are available. Even your property caretaker was a wonderful man. Since we were early, he asked if we wanted to visit the park down the street where we could see a statue of Susan with Frederick Douglas having tea. We did stop later. Our tour guide was amazing 👏 to remember so many details of a person's life and to inform us with such energy and excitement. I felt like Susan was going to walk inside any minute. The passion and wisdom were truly felt. We both have issues with steps, and she waited patiently and offered a chair for both of us. The house is filled with multiple pieces owned by both Susan and her mother. I could mention so much more! If you believe ♥️ in equal rights for everyone, this place is for you. I'm so sorry I can't remember our guides name 😔

We had a wonderful tour with Emma, our very knowledgeable guide!

We had a lovely time at this museum! We bought tickets in advance for the house tour, but it wasn’t busy so you probably don’t need to. The tour was quick and succinct, but we felt like we saw everything and learned a good amount! Our tour guide was knowledgeable, great with engaging some of the younger kids on the tours, and did a great job relating Susan B. Anthony’s historical work to modern times and events happening in our country today.

What: museum dedicated to Susan B. Anthony. It's her original house with some original artifacts and some replicated or similar pieces from that time. Price: $15 per adult and $5 for students. Reserve and pay online in advance through the website. Service: our docent Nick was fantastic, personable and knowledgeable. We started in the Visitor Center (which was Susan's sister's house) and the went next door and saw all three floors of Susan's house. It was quite big! Parking: there is a free lot next to the Visitor's Center. Tip: her cemetery is not far so we drove past it too. Don't forget to tip your docent for all their hard work!

The house is where Susan (and her sister) lived for decades while leading and advocating for various movements. There was women's suffrage, of course, but Susan was also big into the abolitionist movement (and rights for African Americans) as well as the temperance movement. The house is well maintained with some personal possessions (a traveling trunk, a dress and an overcoat, for example) but most pieces were period instead of original to the house. Our guide was knowledgeable. Overall, an interesting piece of history and an important lesson in standing up for what you believe is right.

I stopped in while in the area about 40 mins before they closed to see if I could take a quick peak around and they were super accommodating and had a tour guide give me a brief tour with high level talking points. Even with the abbreviated version of the tour I learned so much!! It was so nice to see how they restored the house to match the photos and to see and feel the tour guides passion while giving the tour. I'm glad I made the last minute decision to go, it was such a unique to Rochester experience.

Small quaint little home of Susan B Anthony. It is well maintained. This is a piece of American History. It's in a neighborhood that's a bit run down and feels unsafe. Private parking available as well as street parking.

Excellent tour! I sincerely wish the tour guide had been my high school history teacher, as they really made the information come alive through eliciting engagement from the group and having clear enthusiasm for their work. I came away from this experience with a much greater appreciation for Susan B. Anthony, the difficult and lengthy journey towards women's suffrage, and Rochester history. I attended alongside Rochester natives, and both they and I (a visitor to Rochester) found the tour informative and well worthwhile. Highly recommend -- the museum has well-preserved artifacts and it's pretty incredible to stand in spaces that shaped Anthony and where she adamantly stood up for her beliefs.

If you believe in equal rights you should visit National Susan B. Anthony Museum. Our tour guide was so knowledgeable that I really thing she has a master's in history.

Great tour. Learned so much about this wonderful woman. Be sure to schedule your tour on line or you may not get in if they are booked up. Small parking lot next to museum and on street parking. Public restroom available. Nice little gift shop.

This place is cool! You start the tour in the house with the front desk and gift shop, and then move next door to tour all 3 levels of the house. Our tour guide was amazing. In the course of an hour she covered a tremendous amount of information and history. She was extremely knowledgeable and answered all the questions we had. The time went by quickly. There is a statue of Susan B Anthony and Frederick Douglass just a block down the street too. For the ticket price ($15 adult, $5 student) I'd say it's worth it.

Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820, died March 13,1906. Anthony was a pioneer crusader in the women's suffrage movement. She spent 40 years in Rochester, New York. Her home, now a museum sets on 17 Madison street, just off west Main. It is open to tourists Tuesday through Sunday. http://susanbanthonyhouse.org/visit-us/main.php

Quite often, the Susan B. Anthony House is obscured by larger museums and attractions in the area, such as the Eastman House, Eastman School of Music, and Strong Museum. I actually never got around to visiting Sue B. until I left the area. Overall, if you're interested in the history of women's rights, local history, and/or American history, you'll find this spot interesting. I noticed Nick Tahou's on the way to this museum and was almost tempted to take a detour, but managed to muster enough focus to keep on driving (ha!). The street in which the museum is on is pretty cute and tucked away from the hustle and bustle of the surrounding area. The houses around seem well-maintained and quaint. The visitors center, which is the house next to the main house, is where you purchase tickets and start the tour. AAA card will get you a dollar off. There's a small exhibit/timeline of Anthony's life. The tour guide was fairly descriptive but I could tell she had a bit of that "this is the last tour so I'll try to get it done fast" in her tone. We also skipped a room because we were close to closing time. The house itself isn't atypical to what I've seen at other historic sites of the time. However, I liked going to the attic to where her publications were created. The tour lasted about 30 minutes, so it's pretty short. Maybe it would've been longer at another time.

Great guided tour--very informative and engaging. Seeing the inside of the house and lots of pictures was really interesting. No access to the upstairs right now due to COVID.

We took a rainy day trip to Rochester when we were visiting northern Pennsylvania family. With a two and a half hour trip there and back, we had time for two museums plus lunch and dinner. We're so thankful we chose the National Susan B Anthony Museum to be one one our list. We learned so much! Our family was assigned a guide, who walked us through the property as she gave us the history behind everything we were looking at. I feel terrible that we don't remember her name, even though we were engrossed in every story she shared. The tour begins next door in the home that was inhabited by Susan's sister. It's a souvenir shop and where you purchase your tickets and use the restroom. Once you have a tour guide assigned to you, you walk out the side door, around a small garden area, and in through the back of the house next door, which was Susan's house and the heart of the sufferage movement. We wound our way around the two floors, and then finally up into the attic, which was Susan's office. The tour took about an hour and was absolutely worth the trip and cost. If you find yourself in Rochester, make sure to seek out this museum on the west side of town.

Born and raised in the Roc, I had never been here and felt ashamed that a piece of history was so accessible. There is a small parking lot available. The visitor center (formerly Guelma Anthony, Susan's sister's house) is where you go in first, to purchase tickets for your tour. I was under the impression that you just pay and can walk around, but because the house is very small, they set up a tour for you with a docent with the price of admission (currently $15). If you have a student ID, you can get a discount. You can also get in BOGO if you have an entertainment book. There is a coupon in the purple section of the book. The Visitor center has some background information about the family and the time period. There is a gift shop with postcards and small memorabilia as well. The docent will then take you and whomever else signed up for the tour and you will walk around the house for about 45 minutes. A lot of the things in the house are replicas, but there are some original pieces of furniture, along with her famous alligator purse. The tour was a little long for me, but it was still worth the visit on a cold winter day.

This tour was fantastic and a great start to learning about Rochester's history. Our tour guide, Lola, was engaging and enthusiastic as she shared the story of Susan B. Anthony. She was extremely knowledgeable and she had everything memorized!! I was extra impressed at how she engaged my younger siblings with kid focused questions throughout the tour, so they wouldn't get too bored. The tour was educational as well as inspiring!! I am thinking about volunteering here as the tour was super moving.

I went here with Debra R, Jose R and a couple of people a few days ago. We did the guided tour. The museum was really nice and the tour guide had a ton of knowledge. I got a book and tote bag for the souvenir. The gift shop was good too.

This is a little hidden gem in Rochester. Lot's of competing museums in the area, but this is a must do. Learned a great deal on a subject that I didn't know a lot about. Very appreciative. The tour guide was knowledgeable and passionate about the subject. Enjoyed the tour immensely. The place has a AAA discount that they offered up without asking...nice!

this is certainly sacred ground for the women's lib movement. this is the kind of place you definitely want to bring your daughters to see. This was the home of Susan B Anthony for the majority of her adult life. The majority of her work occurred in that house. The day she got arrested occurred in that house, and the night she died occurred in her bed that is now on display. With that said I couldn't quite give this place 5 stars because there just isn't a whole lot to see and this house isn't quite as it looked in her time. Some of the furniture in some of the rooms is original but the rest of the house needs some work. The attic floor needs the most work since she did spend a great deal of time on that floor. Currently it's a bit of a hodgepodge of original furniture in the wrong places.

This place is fab. We looked online to see when tours were taking place. There were a few Saturday times for us to choose from. They did a fantastic tour and they have a very nice little gift shop. I learned many new things about local history and Susan B. They were also great about answering our questions. This house is in beautiful shape and I highly recommend a visit.

Visiting with out of town family, docent Peggy Oaks gave us a fabulous tour and shared a wonderful piece of history for both women and for Rochester. This is a Rochester GEM and is a must visit location! We were lucky, as we arrived right when there was no queue and our little group of four had a private tour.

Tour guide is very knowledgeable they honor an AAA discount you get a tour of both houses the tour guide actually will spend a lot of time answering questions the setup is very nice and the fact that they actually allow you into the upstairs study and that is not roped off is amazing in itself. They have a very interesting map that shows you exactly when voting came into existence for women in each country. The walk here from State Street is a little dodgy. But this visit is a must!

My wife drug me here when we went out to NY for a wedding. I am kind of a tight wad when it comes to places like this. I thought to myself $30 for 3 of us to walk through an old house? Yes and no. The tour was great. The walk was far more than a walk it was a peek at a different time in our country. By the end I was left thinking ONLY $30 for the 3 of us. Loads of good info. A MUST SEE because if you don't it may not be there later. Places like this need support so don't be shy.

The inconspicuous, yet well-preserved home of women's rights leader Susan B. Anthony can be found on a quaint, ordinary-looking street in Rochester just a mile west of the convention center downtown. This is the home where she was arrested in 1872 for voting just a few days beforehand. Arrested. For voting. The home contains many of her original things and photos. Personal highlights of mine included her typewriters, desk, bed, portraits of friends and colleagues, and a dress made of black satin (the satin was given to her from a group of women in WY as a token of their gratitude for her help in promoting and securing their suffrage at the local level). Standing in the third floor attic that she had built as workspace for the National American Woman Suffrage Association is truly amazing. One can't help but imagine her hard at work with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and other women of the time strategizing, writing, and planning events to support the movement. Don't forget to stop by the park just a block away from her house (this was recommended to me by an astute docent at the house who thought I would enjoy it based on our conversations). There is a wonderful memorial statue of Susan and Frederick Douglass talking over tea (as they often did together). What a historical gem. Highly recommended!

Went with my 9 year old daughter who has been a huge Susan B fan since she learned about her in first grade. She was quite excited when she learned her house was right here in Rochester. The tour was quite extensive and had a good deal of historical content about the suffrage movement that I am embarrassed to say I (as a woman) knew very little about. Definitely gives one pause to be grateful for those who came before us :) There is a cute little "gift shop" where you can get souvenirs. Has a small parking lot for about 8 cars.

We went here on a whim while visiting Rochester and it turned out to be one of our favorite parts of the trip! Our amazing tour guide, Lola, did a truly fantastic job engaging us in Susan B. Anthony's life. We learned a lot from Lola, who knew so much about Anthony, her family, and her contemporaries. Definitely recommend going here!

I have lived in Rochester for over 20 years and I have never visited this place. I finally did, and I realized I was missing a huge part of Rochester, and US, history. Located in a quiet street on the West Side of the city, this house has been carefully restored to look how it looked at the beginning of the 20th century, when Susan B. Anthony was living there the house was basically the center of the women's voting rights movement. The reason of choosing the timeframe for restoring the house has to do more with the fact that there are plenty of pictures from that time that allows for a more accurate restoration of the place. Walking around the house, with a guided tour offers not only a glimpse of how people lived in those times, but also how the women living in this house worked tirelessly to change their world for the better. It's really eye opening to see how far we've come, and how further we need to go to reach the dreams that Susan B. Anthony represented. The house next door is set up as a souvenir store, and houses more artifacts from Susan B. Anthony's life. It is also a historically significant house since her sister, who was also an important figure in the movement, lived there.

By all rights, a visit to the Susan B Anthony house and museum should make for a memorable experience and a good learning experience, too. The home itself is modest and, truthfully, nothing special to see. Our tour guide did NOT seem especially knowledgeable and gave what I would describe as a lackluster tour of the place (being generous about it). The museum portion is very small, occupying only one room in an adjacent home. Much more thought and work could and should have gone into this place, because as it now stands, tourists could easily go there and learn next to nothing. What a shame!

The staff at the Susan B. Anthony House do private guided tours at no extra cost. I'm not sure if they generally have specific times for when tours leave. My friend and I came on a Friday morning and were immediately led to a free docent. The tour is supposed to be around 45min, but ours was more like 1.5 hrs! There's so much to see in the house, and lots of information to take in. This visit was really inspirational, and you leave with a better idea of just how strong-willed and determined Susan B. Anthony was. If you leave the house and turn left, you'll see a small park about a block down on the right hand side with statues of Susan B Anthony and Frederick Douglass drinking tea. Makes for an excellent photo op!

I absolutely LOVE the Susan B. Anthony house. This is probably one of the best historical sights I have ever seen in America. The staff here are wonderful and provide very detailed and informational tours. The price is so reasonable and it is really the most informational, educational and enjoyable experience. I love the amount of historical content provided in the tour and on site. This is great for those interested in women's rights and local history. If you live in the area, nearby or are stopping through - a must see.

I make it a point to visit every museum possible, and Rochester doesn't have much along those lines. To be honest, I'm not a Susan B. Anthony enthusiast and didn't much care about her life story, trials or tribulations. The tour guide was remarkably knowledgeable and the subject matter within these walls is more compelling than you'd think walking in to it. I'd say to go just to find out why you'll be glad you went. For me, it was the typewriter... that I nearly knocked over clumsily with my trench coat and hope has since been put someplace where some other clumsy fool won't knock it over. What typewriter? The one she produced her most well-known works with. Ewps.

This was my first stop in Rochester. Definitely a treat. The house is the middle of a historic neighborhood. You start at the visitors center. The tour is 10$ for adults. You meet in small room, the docent reviews Susan B Antony's life. Then you go next door to the home. It is filled with both period pieces and original pieces of furniture. The docents stories of the suffrage movement were great. There were photos of the home with SB Anthony. The tour is about an hour. The height of the tour is an original black dress of SB Anthony. You could hear and feel the woman's movement in this house. Down the street is a park with a statue of SB Anthony and Fredrick Douglas. Great for Adults, likely boring for kids.

Fascinating stories from Susan B Anthony's life and early Rochester. The House and Visitors Center have neat artifacts and take you back in time to the late 1800s.

So happy to have this gem in our city. The docents are very knowledgeable and every time you visit, you learn something new. If you are a Rochester native and haven't been here you are sorely missing out!

I went with really no expectations, just random curiosity. If you find old houses and artifacts interesting, this well-preserved home and its contents will not disappoint. It was a particularly interesting tour to take after eyeing the 1% life to be seen over at the palatial George Eastman house and gardens on the other side of the tracks, metaphorically speaking. Seeing great wealth, grand living and frankly ridiculous over-consumption of a wildly successful (and generous) self-made entrepreneur just an hour or so before viewing the modest, tidy, Quaker-influenced, flinty life of a very different American hero made for an interesting day. Ms. Anthony's home (and her sister's next door where the shop is) surely represented the 99% of Americans in the mid 19th Century. That both of SBA and GE were raised in limited circumstances and witnessed their mothers' economic status decline sharply due directly to the deaths of their fathers was an interesting parallel. Even more interesting is the inescapable possibility that both Ms. Anthony and Mr. Eastman (neither of whom married and neither of whom were known for any sort of heterosexual interest) were "gay" before that was something one could actually 'be.' It might go without saying that although their lifetimes overlapped he did not think much of her making me wonder what else was predictably conventional about Mr. Eastman? Our docent was a very sweet young woman who had obviously been well instructed although she suffered a verbal tick of saying things like "and what have you" or "and what not." Not to be too mean about it but it detracted from an otherwise very professional and enthusiastic presentation of facts and details. Also - do check out the feminist swag in the museum shop - way better than what's offered by the National Parks service at the Seneca Falls museum!

Jackie is a wonderful, knowledgable guide who shared the house and history with us. Very accommodating for kids and our eight-year-old walked away with a folder of information for a future report. Who knew she was highly driven and inspired by her Quaker religion? There is a sweet story about her long-lasting friendship and her sister who dedicated her life to taking care of her and her mom.

The docents were very knowledgeable and able to answer questions. Very informative tour, we learned a lot about her influence on history.

Great afternoon at the Susan B. Anthony house. Tour was wonderful. It was my third visit and I learn something new every time!