Anthony House
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| location | Adams , Massachusetts , United States | ||
| Coordinates | 42 ° 36 '55 " N , 73 ° 6' 10" W | ||
| Built | circa 1817 | ||
| Architectural style | Federal style | ||
| NRHP number | [1] 85000021 | ||
| The NRHP added | 3rd January 1985 | ||
The Anthony House is a historic home in 67 East Road in Adams , Massachusetts . It is notable for its association with early city teachers and industrialists and as the birthplace of Susan B. Anthony , a suffragette born in 1820 . Anthony's father, Daniel, was an influential member of a Quaker family and a co-founder of the Adams Academy, a secondary school. He and his brother built one of the first mills in Adams in 1822 before the family left the area and moved to Upstate New York in 1825 .
The house is a two-and-a-half-story building with a central federal-style hall . Twin chimneys rise in the center of the roof and a modest one and a half story annex was added to the rear of the structure, with the porch added in the 1950s to one side of that annex closed in the following decade. A barn on the property has been replaced with a modern garage. The original floor plan of the building was retained; In addition to the central hall, which is flanked by salons on both sides to the front of the house, it has smaller rooms in the rear part of the building; the annex contains two rooms. Most of the original wooden interior is still there, but an open fireplace has been bricked up. The house now houses a museum dedicated to Susan B. Anthony's youth.
history
The first member of the Anthony family in Adams was David Anthony, the great grandfather of Susan B. Anthony in the years leading up to the American Revolutionary War . He came to the area when Quakers from Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts began arriving in the area . He founded a sawmill that is still owned by the family to this day. His grandson, also David Anthony, built the house in 1817. Daniel Anthony also ran the sawmill and founded a cotton mill, Pump Log Mill, in 1822. He advocated public education and taught at the East Road School before joining others found in the Quaker community in 1825, belonging to his father who founded the Adams Academy. In 1827 the younger David Anthony moved to Battenville , New York for financial reasons .
The house remained in family ownership until 1895 and then changed hands several times. The Society of Friends Descendants acquired the property in 1926 and established a museum. In 1949 the house went into private ownership again. It is operated as a historical museum by a non-profit organization.
On January 3, 1985, the house was listed as a listed building on the National Register of Historic Places .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Entry in the National Register Information System . National Park Service , accessed June 14, 2016
- ↑ a b c d NRHP nomination for Anthony House ( English ) Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved November 30, 2013.
- ↑ Frequently Asked Questions ( English ) Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 30, 2013.
