First Floor -
Front Parlor, Back Parlor, Dining Room

Front Parlor	In this room Susan B. Anthony was arrested by a U.S. Marshall for voting in the 1872 election. She hoped to prove that women had the legal right to vote under the provisions of the recently passed 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution. At her trial a hostile federal judge found her guilty and fined her $100, which she refused to pay.
Biography on table	The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony was written on the third floor of this house by Miss Anthony and Ida Husted Harper. The first two volumes were published in 1898; the third in 1908, two years after Anthony's death. One volume shows the binding with its gold cameo of Miss Anthony's profile; the other is opened to her signed inscription.
Back Parlor	Friends and reformers gathered here to work on campaigns and plot strategy. Frederick Douglass, (picture) close friend and co-worker in the anti-slavery and womens' rights movements, published the abolitionist paper "The North Star" in Rochester.
Lucy Read Anthony	Miss Anthony's mother at 60 years of age. The yellow rose bush which she planted in the house garden still blooms today. The yellow rose became a symbol for the suffrage movement as a tribute to her.
Dining Room	Susan B. Anthony and her sister Mary always set extra places at the table for unexpected visitors who invariably arrived at mealtime.
Dress and Portrait	The lithograph of Susan B. Anthony complements the one of Elizabeth Cady Stanton hanging on the opposite wall. Stanton was Anthony's close friend and colleague for over 50 years. The black silk brocade in this dress was a gift for Miss Anthony's 80th birthday from the Mormon women of Utah. They deeply appreciated her successful efforts to have woman suffrage included in the state constitution when Utah joined the Union in 1896.

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