Identifies as women-owned
Yes
Susan B. Anthony Museum & House in Rochester
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Location on the map
Rochester, Monroe County, New York, US
From the business
Accessibility
Wheelchair-accessible car park
Yes
Wheelchair-accessible entrance
Yes
Wheelchair-accessible toilet
Yes
Amenities
Gender-neutral toilets
Yes
Good for kids
Yes
Toilets
Yes
Restaurant
No
Crowd
Family friendly
Yes
Phone: +1 585-235-6124
Site: http://www.susanb.org/
Site: http://www.susanb.org/
Opening hours
- Monday:Closed
- Tuesday:11AM–5PM
- Wednesday:11AM–5PM
- Thursday:11AM–5PM
- Friday:11AM–5PM
- Saturday:11AM–5PM
- Sunday:11AM–5PM
Comments (170)
You get a sense of history when you visit the house. The house is meticulously maintained. We learned a lot in our visit. Worth a visit. Due to covid, please make an appointment before heading out there.
Great and friendly staff. Great tour very interesting and informative. Cute gift shop multiple choices of things.
We had an extremely informant docent who told us everything we could possibly learn about Susan B. Anthony. I learned a bunch of valuable information and she reinforced the things that should be taught more in history class. definitely a place to check out if your visiting Rochester, it’s in a convenient location and they do have parking. The prices aren’t that bad, either. Pictures are permitted too. You get a tour of the whole house and learn so much. they also have nice souvenirs you can get at the gift shop as well.
Wonderful tour really makes you feel like you are in the midst of history being made. Lots of important details not only about SBA but also about Frederick Douglass & their complex relationship as fellow activists. Highly recommend as a way to more deeply understand the womens suffrage movement.
All american! Its our wonderful Rochester history. I am a distant descendant of this ladys family line. Nice gift shop. Its an educational visit that is important & enjoyable.
Three of us visited at 4pm on Saturday 7/31/21 not realizing that reservations were required. I called from outside and the girl on the phone was very kind and helpful. She told us there were no more tours for that day but there was an opening for the next day. I declined that as we wouldnt be in the area Sunday. She told me the gift shop next door was open and they had displays in a room there we could view. In we went. Not ten minutes later the lady doing the tours came in, breathless as though shed rushed over, and asking was there someone who want the house tour. My two companions and I piped up. She gave us a wonderful tour and was a great tour guide. Informative, fun and she didnt rush although wouldve understood if she did. We shopped and left at exactly 5pm. It was a truly wonderful experience. Thank you!
I really enjoyed the tour of the house and learning more about Susan B. Anthony. The tour guide was excellent. Due to COVID restrictions, the number of guests was limited (I suggest making reservations in advance) and the upstairs portion was omitted, but it was still worth the cost of admission. The tour lasted about 45 minutes. There was also a small gift shop in the lobby of the house next door, where the tour starts. Its a great place to visit in Rochester.
The tour was great. The staff were knowledgeable about both the history of the house as well as Rochester. Our docent had a fantastic recommendation for dinner.
I highly enjoyed my visit here. The tour was very informational and interesting to learn about how influential Susan was. All the museum staff were helpful, friendly, and accommodating. They are good about following mask requirements, social distancing, and cleanliness. We did get to see the first floor inside the house, but not the second floor where the bedrooms are.
The guided tour is awesome. The guide we had was Lola and she knew all about the history. I recommend this.
The tour and house were amazing to see! Our tour guide was great at telling the stories that surround that time in our history, even the ones including race. Informative experience that is important for all people to take part in!
😍 really liked it! Been living here my whole life and cant belive Ive never gone.
Well preserved and a great educational tour.
We took our 7 year old daughter here while in Rochester for the house tour. Our guide, Martha, was great. The tour was filled with lots of useful history of Susan B. Anthony and the struggle of women fighting for their right to vote. It was interesting to see the home represented as it would have been at the time it was the epicenter of the fight for womens suffrage. Well worth the visit to see how far we have come as a nation and a vivid reminder of the work that still needs to be done.
Worthwhile tour of the privately held home with lots of facts to learn, lots of things to see. My daughters, 8 & 10 years old, interacted along the way. We all enjoyed listening and learning and being inspired! Plan for an hour here. The parking lot is small but there is lots of street parking if its full.
I have lived in the Rochester area my whole life and have never been here until 2020. This such a great gem for our community and I am so glad I got to share the Susan B. House with my 4 year old and teach her about womens rights with my parents there as well.Our tour started outside and we were only able to tour the bottom floor of the house due to Covid-19 restrictions. At this time they are only allowing 1 group of related parties to go into the gift shop at a time. It was still a good time and once Covid is not a threat anymore they will open the second floor back for viewing. To view the Susan B. House you need to reserve tickets online since they are following the Covid guidelines limiting the amount of guests viewing at one time. Masks are required.
I am handicapped so climbing three flights of stairs was difficult but the guide was so helpful and patient with me and didnt continue the teaching until I got there and made sure I had a chair to sit in.I had a walker and everyone was so helpful. I couldnt bring walker up the stairs but there were very sturdy handrails.The guide was so informative and knowledgeable and showed that she really loved to teach us. I learned a lot and am so much more appreciative of Susan B.
My husband and I enjoyed our tour
I was in the area and came here to pay my respects to this great lady who helped change our country for the better in so many ways. The guide and staff were knowledgeable and enthusiastic and pointed out all artifacts that were Susan B. Anthonys or her familys, as well as how the house and furnishings had been restored to resemble when she and her family lived here. There are a couple of fun photo ops after the tour to show you were with Susan B., and you can visit the nearby park with a lovely statue of her having tea with another historic giant and her friend, Frederick Douglass. Really thankful for the efforts to maintain and share this historically important place.
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 womens rights and local history.If you live in the area, nearby or are stopping through - a must see.
This was the primary reason for stopping in Rochester. Property consists of two homes - hers and her sister’s next door, which houses the museum and a parking lot for visitors. Also free parking on the street. House was nice but the stories and history shared by the volunteer docent made the visit so worthwhile. One fun fact was the children of the era had a jump rope rhyme that referred to her as “the woman with the alligator bag.” And yes, her original satchel was there. Many furnishings in the home are of the era rather than original because it was a home for others after she passed, but curators have done a nice job recreating it.
Lola did a great job! Shes still in high school and was as professional and knowledgeable as any adult docent Ive ever seen. My GS Troop had a good time and it was really cool learning about a local hero.
Excellent staff. Lots of knowledge. In a sketch neighborhood though
Must see for all Rochesterians, and a great place to visit if youre in the area.
A super interesting place to visit! The docents are great, engaging and armed with details. Much more than I expected. The site is beautifully done and historically as accurate as possible. Includes many of Susan Bs actual belongings. Well worth the trip.
Thats what the tour guides red vest says, and after taking the tour, its how I feel too. I came with modest expectations, but our tour guide was not only knowledgeable, she was able to paint a vivid picture of SBAs life and work. Getting to see the actual rooms and offices as she spoke made it more meaningful.Our tour was not at all political but rather stuck to historical facts. I was able to make my own connections to contemporary issues but our guide didnt do any of that except for at the conclusion of the tour where she asked the group what kinds of things we thought SBA might be fighting for today. There was no judgement passed on what anyone said.
One of those places you have to visit because Susan B Anthony was kind of a big deal - go across the street and take a picture with the Susan B and Fred D having tea
Great information and a great tour. We learned a lot. I wish we could have seen more of the house, but we couldnt see more of the house due to COVID.
She is very famous. If you live Rochester please stop by.
It was a cold and damp day so we stopped for the tour. Our docent Martha Tedrowe knew more about SBA then the law allows, and I came out of the tour with more knowledge, a better appreciation and support for the womens suffrage movement and the continuing struggle than I ever would have imagined. I would highly recommend this tour. Its short, informative and inspring. Even the kids loved it.
We visited a few women-centered sites in Seneca Falls (site of the first womens convention led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton) and Harriet Tubmans home in Auburn and were really inspired by these courageous women and their stories. When we learned that Susan B. Anthonys home was less than an hour away in Rochester, we decided to visit.The house tour was excellent and informative. The docent showed the rooms as usual and sprinkled every stop with interesting tidbits about Ms. Anthony, her Quaker sensibilities, and her advocacy for womens rights. Its unfortunate that she didnt live to see the ratification of the 19th Amendment that granted women the right to vote, but her contributions have secured her a well-deserved place in the history of womens rights in America.They run the tours a few times a day. Check their website or call ahead for their schedule. There is a small parking lot on-site and we found a spot easily. As in other historical sites, there is a small gift shop and some exhibitions at the Visitor Center.As we were leaving, the docent told us about another site we might be interested in visiting - Mount Hope Cemetery just a short drive away, where Ms. Anthony and another important figure, Frederick Douglass, are buried. We decided to go and spent half an hour there.
Nice little museum with some good history information and a friendly and helpful volunteer staff! Be sure to check out the sculpture of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass having tea at the park just down the street.
Amazing tour. Freddie was our tour guide and she was fantastic. She was knowledgeable and told us fascinating facts and stories. This museum is a must see. It is inspiring and important to Rochester culture.
Totally legit. Nice quality displays in museum room. Historically enlightening. Hour tour. Learned Susan was the lady with the alligator purse as well as womens rights activist. Actually considered buying alligator purse in great little gift shop. (Bought books, cards, puzzle, scarf instead.) Docent was so knowledgable and threw in neat info nuggets. Stairs are steep to upper room office but Anthony was going up even in her 80s. Also walked to see sculpture at Square a few houses away. Nice photo op there. Enjoyed visit. Would recommend it.
Very disappointed not to be allowed upstairs after an outside stoop fire. I traveled over five hours. They still charged the full price for admission!
A great tour. There was much more history than I had known and our children got a lot out of it too. Such an important part of our history.
Wonderful, historical tour by a very knowledgeable docent. Learned a lot about the suffrage movement as well as Susan B Anthony. We also walked to the park to see the statue, nice area.
I am deeply Disappointed in your decision to not accept the pardon for Susan B Anthony from President Trump. I am sure that if it were a past President then you would have accepted a pardon. She afterall did break the law of that Generation and he showed mercy and his pardon actually proves that the law was wrong by not allowing women to be valued as they should have been in that time frame. But if you want her to remain a criminal then you will have to live with your decision. I will gladly change my review to a 5 star when you come to your senses and give respect to the President for his kindness because all the other Presidents in the past did not care one bit about her legacy. A pardon does not mean someone was guilty, it actually vindicates that person for being wronged.
Great piece of history. Very informative. Tour guide very knowledgeable.
One of the hightlights of my Rochester trip. Typical admission fee of $15 gets you admission to the house and a tour by one of the docents. They are friendly and very knowledgable. The house is not conpletely restored so sone rooms are.closed off to the public. Be aware they are closed on Mondays as most museums in the area. A parking lot is on property next to the visitor center.
Wonderfully maintained, and it does a tremendous job telling the amazing story of Susan B Anthony. I highly recommend having this on your visit-Rochester list.
Very informative. Great gift shop! Tour was fantastic; and shedding the light on 100 years of sufferage this year: is fantastic.
2 hr drive to not be able to see it .nonsense
Whoever is running this needs to be removed immediately. Rejecting, as if they could, a presidential pardon which has been long over due. Makes me sick to think that peoples political identities override all decency and common sense.
Excellent tour and presentation
I appreciated how the staff took the time to answer my questions. Paloma was an excellent tour guide - her knowledge and enthusiasm made it a fun stop.
Wonderful tour great guide!!!!! I was so excited we got to visit this place and learned a lot while there.
Very nice tour of Susan B. Anthonys home! Wonderful tour guide that informed me of many things I did not know about the suffragist movement.
Very nice small local museum. Fabulous tours and lots of interesting info on the womens suffrage and more
An important piece of American History and well worth the visit. To any civic leaders reading this review: GIVE THE MUSEUM MORE FUNDING!
An amaing museum appropriate to an amazing woman. Everyone should go. Everyone should know her story. Excellent guided tour
Great tour... Jillian was awesome and very knowledgable. She brought S.B.A. to life with her stories.
Very interesting history and very important for people to remember how hard it was to get the right to voted. Highly recommend going and checking out Sudan’s house.
Brings the truth of the struggle for womens rights to an easily-graspable level. Sometimes it can be hard to forget that the fight is advanced only by individuals working together, rather than some nebulous social trend.
Fantastic Tour!
Kinda short, but great information and overall insightful and penetrating look into Anthonys life and influence
Small museum, but well worth the visit into the life and mission of Susan B. Anthony, and how anyone during this period of time thought and lived.
Great learning experience, the guides were fully informed and spend lots of time with our group
Great historical information. The house is in great shape and or tour guide knew her facts!
Such an opportunity to see the actual house and rooms. The docent was eloquent, knowledgeable and had a great speaking voice
Very informative tour about one of my communitys biggest historical heros.
The docents were very knowledgeable. The information available was plenty. Nice museum.
This a great historical site. Very important for U.S. history, and informative guide/docent.
Great tour. Fascinating details. A piece of history. Well preserved artifacts.
Great tour! Amazing bits of history in every room.
This was great. Learned some great things from the history of womens rights! Very limited parking
Offers friendly tours of the home of much human rights work in Rochester. Has many original and authentic pieces!
Learned a lot, well preserved. Tour guide was knowledgeable and accommodating
I Love this house. I learned a lot about Ms. Anthony. The docent was so knowledgeable Would visit again!
Great tour with an engaging guide.
Nice but small parking lot. Not good for full size trucks or suvs
Terrific history and a delightful and insightful tour guide!
Great tour! Very informative and interesting.
By far one of the best tours Ive been on.
Great tour by the fantastic staff!! I learned so much!!
Very cool tour. House is in great shape.
A lot of history in this house
Call ahead and schedule a tour. Extremely knowledgeable docents!
Well worth the stop, well maintained historical house museum.
Great tour and history lesson of a pioneering lady
Our tour guide Fantastically informed, and wonderfully enthusiastic
Went with a school field trip. Great tour
Historical site here in Rochester New York the actual home was Susan B Anthony lived at
Such a great resource for us and a wonderful way to dsicover our past.
I Love anything that is a reminder of our history!
Our tour was informative and fun.
Peggy Oakes was an awesome tour guide!
Fantastic but admission is way overpriced. $15
Wonderful to experience and great tour guides.
Very interesting place of significant value in our history for equal rights
I went their for my daughter but was very impressed.
Interesting interpretation of the history of voting rights in the USA.
This place is filled with history, its a wonderful learning experience.
Wonderful tour guides, great interpretation
Didnt go in. Just drove by the place. Google wont let me delete.
Historical site you must visit and support.
A lot of history. The staff was very knowledgeable.
Interesting and informative....nice tour!
Very knowledgeable staff, passionate about the history of Sue B.
She looks different than on the dollar.
Very interesting. Good tour.
Very good tour!
Tour was phenomenal, knowledgable guides
Step back in history and learn about Susan B. Anthony and the suffrage movement.
Great Docent, informative,interesting house.
Its awesome and the time is 5:00am
A must do to fill in the gaps of history that leave out women.
The docents are knowledgeable and friendly.
Very knowledgable. It was a wonderful toyr
History about womans rights in Rochester New York
A great story to learn about more fully.
Knowledgable staff and a great tour
Interesting and informative and worth a visit.
Informative and interesting. Excellent guide.
Great history tour.
Historical place nicely refurbished
It is a very wonderful looking place
Wonderful museum and tour!!!
History. Went on election day, but visit anytime!
Very short tour .
Great stop for suffrage history.
Such a cool experience!
I love her house a lot
Alsome place to lurn about history
Informative, fascinating tour!
Hermosa
History... But in a semi rough neighborhood.
Must see
Best ever
Best hidden treasure in the city
A definite historical stop in Rochester.
This tour was amazing
FANTASTIC!🙏🙏👌🦚🦚
Well preserved
Ungrateful liberal dump
Loved it
Blessed
It is a great pleace !! 😀😀😀
Great!
Hi. Anthony
Highly recommend.
I am so happyyyyyyyyy
Very informative.
Lacks diversity
Always great !
Awesome
Love the place
Awesome experience
History
She is awesome
Great history.
Very informative
A piece of history.
Great history
Wonderful!!!
Nice place
The holy land of early/liberal feminism. Sign up for an hour-long tour and visit the entrance hall where Ms. Anthony was arrested and the room where she chatted with Ms. Stanton.
The historical space of struggle of women for their civil rights, an environment of vindication and appreciation for said struggle.
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Total reviews rating 4.6
170 Reviews for Susan B. Anthony Museum & House 2023:
Review №1
2022-02-16It has now been 100 years since the 19th amendment was ratified granting women the right to vote.While we celebrate these outstanding leaders in the women’s rights movement, it is important to recognize the many barriers like the poll tax, white primaries, inaccessibility of polls and other subtle (and not so subtle) restrictions remained, stifling a free, democratic vote for ALL people. This museum does a wonderful job in retelling her history without sanitizing it.To honor the legacy of these great women who fought for our rights we must always do 2 things: Vote and speak up when someone’s right to vote is being restricted.Thank you for preserving her home and educating visitors on her journey.
Review №2
2022-04-30Our tour guide was great! The tour was so informative and the gift shop has GREAT gifts. A true gem of our history.
Review №3
2022-02-21Amazing site. The gift shop had such great things. The tour was done by a high school senior who’s passion and knowledge was one of the best tours I’ve ever experienced. It’s a gem in Rochester
Review №4
2022-07-01I was super pumped to take my 12, 10, and 5-year-old kids to the Susan B. Anthony museum today. My wife and I feel like she is an absolute hero that should be celebrated and I couldnt wait to learn more. Teaching history is a difficult task, especially to children because its hard for them to understand how people in the past fit into a different (but in some ways similar) world. Thats why history is so poorly taught in school in general and our nations citizens struggle with it so mightily. Students are taught to learn dates and places instead of personalities and truly connect with individuals. I was a history major in college and it remains one of my passions and hobbies.So why the one star?Quite frankly, its due to what I feel is an egregious overprotective measure. Despite infinitesimal low numbers of Covid in the area, they require masking (no problem if course) along with full vaccination of people all the way from 5 years old and up. Looking at the statistics, only 1 and 4 5-12 year olds are vaccinated in America meaning that 75 percent of children would not be able to visit their museum. Today this museum held my children back from learning of an American heros history due to what I can only conceive is political and not a health-based pragmatic decision. Of course, we were all vaccinated but my 5-year-old was not.I hope the museum enjoyed the modicum of physical safety during a short amount of time as opposed to the safety that knowledge of history would be able to bring our youth now and into the future - the very youth that we need for our society to continue thriving. I have to say, I cant imagine Susan B. Anthony would support such draconian measures, but I guess Ill never know because I wasnt allowed to come in with my children.
Review №5
2021-07-30I saw it only from the outside because it was closed on the day I visited which was Sunday. Its in an old historic neighborhood. Outside the house, theres a time-line about Susan Bs life. Nearby is a small park named in her honor with a statue of her and Frederick Douglass.
Review №6
2021-07-15Our guide was so knowledgeable! She really made the experience fun. The pictures were great visual aids to help fill out the story. We went on a windy, rainy day. But we were still able to enjoy the tour.
Review №7
2022-04-07Visited with our teen girls, all of us history nerds. Had a great tour of the house and learned a lot about Susan B. Also took a very short walk to the park/square around the corner to the Susan B. and Frederick Douglass sculpture. Very nice visit.
Review №8
2021-08-22Outstanding tour provided by the guide Lola. Thanks for explaining us Susan B. Anthonys life and how she changed the course of American history to improve the womens rights.
Review №9
2022-04-25Excellent display of her history and books and memorabilia to buy about Susan and the movement..
Review №10
2022-06-26Interesting docent tour. Great collection of SBA personal items.It is a museum celebrating women and appears visited and cherished by almost all women visitors...yet in late June of 2022 we were forced to wear masks and show proof of vaccination. Can you be any more ignorant to the facts? Despite being FULLY vaccinated, I can still GET COVID and GIVE COVID the same as an unvaccinated visitor. As an ICU RN we were taught that the COVID molecule is SMALLER than the weave of even the N95 masks. If you can smell wearing a mask, the miniscule COVID molecule can enter easier than larger smell molecules. Read stats of mask wearing counties. NO LESS COVID CASES THAN NON MASK WEARING COUNTIES.The Susan B Anthony Museum is an EMBARRASSMENT TO WOMEN!