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Elizabeth Cady Stanton House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
Elizabeth Cady Stanton House in 2013
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Location	32 Washington Street, Seneca Falls, NY
Coordinates	42°54′45.46″N 76°47′18.16″W / 42.9126278°N 76.7883778°W / 42.9126278; -76.7883778
Area	less than one acre
Built	1830 (1830)
NRHP reference No.	66000572
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	October 15, 1966
Designated NHL	June 23, 1965

The Elizabeth Cady Stanton House is a historic house at 32 Washington Street in the village of Seneca Falls, New York. Built before 1830, it was the home of suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) from 1847 to 1862. It is now a historic house museum as part of Women's Rights National Historical Park. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965.

Description and history

The Elizabeth Cady Stanton House stands in a quiet residential area of Seneca Falls, east of its downtown at the junction of Washington and Seneca Streets. It is a modest 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, its L shape covered by gabled roofs and its exterior finished in wooden clapboards. The north wing, oriented with its gable to the street, is 2+1⁄2 stories, while the south wing is a single story with an open porch extending across most of its width. The main entrance is located in the south wing near the junction of the two sections. The house is not architecturally distinguished. A small garage stands southeast of the house.

The property was purchased in 1836-1837 by Samuel and William Bayard, who bought the recently built structure from Colonel Wilhelmus Mynderse, who had founded Seneca Falls. In 1838, William and his family took out a mortgage on the property and were residing there. The Bayard family ran into financial difficulties and were sued several times in the early 1840s. In 1842, the house went up for public auction and was purchased by William A. Sacket and Robert L. Stevenson with a caveat that Bayard could redeem it within one year for the debts owed. Having failed to pay their debt, the property was conveyed in 1844 to William Pennington and the acquired by Elisha Foote Jr., in March. Foote was the husband of Eunice Newton Foote and had trained in law with Daniel Cady, Elizabeth's father. Foote deeded the property to Elizabeth's father in 1845, who in turn gave the property to his daughter in 1846.

The oldest portion of the house, the south wing, was probably built before 1830, with the north wing added by 1840. Henry and Elizabeth Cady Stanton lived in the house from 1847 to 1862. During this period, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was active in organizing the first United States convention on women's suffrage. Held in 1848, the Seneca Falls Convention resulted in the first major calls for women to be granted the right to vote. Stanton remained an influential figure in the women's rights movements of the 19th century until her death in 1902.

The house was acquired by the National Park Service in 1982 to become part of the Women's Rights National Historical Park. It then underwent restoration, removing alterations made after the Stantons sold the property and returning it to its appearance during their occupancy.

See also

• List of monuments and memorials to women's suffrage
• List of National Historic Landmarks in New York
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Seneca County, New York

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
2. ^ "Elizabeth Cady Stanton House (Seneca Falls)". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. September 11, 2007. Archived from the original on November 20, 2007.
3. ^ "NHL nomination for Elizabeth Cady Stanton House". National Park Service. Retrieved January 2, 2020., "Accompanying photo, exterior, from 1964, 569 KB" (PDF). National Park Service. 1983. Retrieved July 29, 2013.
4. ^ Yocum, Barbara A. Pearson (1998). The Stanton House Historic Structure Report: Women's Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, New York. Lowell, Massachusetts: Northeast Cultural Resources Center of the National Park Service. OCLC 191223863.
5. "Founder of Seneca Falls". SenecaFalls.com. Seneca Falls, New York: Town of Seneca Falls. 2021. Archived from the original on March 3, 2022. Retrieved July 8, 2022.
6. Reed, Elizabeth Wagner (1992). "Eunice Newton Foote: 1819-1888". American Women in Science before the Civil War (PDF). Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota. pp. 65–68. OCLC 28126164. Archived from the original on July 8, 2016.
7. Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1887). "Foote, Elisha" (PDF). Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. Vol. II: Crane-Grimshaw 1887. New York, New York: D. Appleton & Company. p. 495. OCLC 906067060.
8. Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. NY-6103, "Elizabeth Cady Stanton House, 32 Washington Street, Seneca Falls, Seneca County, NY", 3 photos, 7 measured drawings, 1 photo caption page
9. "Elizabeth Cady Stanton House". Women's Rights National Historic Park summary. National Park Service. September 11, 2007.

External links

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton House, National Historical Park, at National Park Service
• Places Where Women Made History: Elizabeth Cady Stanton House, National Park Service
• Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. NY-6103, "Elizabeth Cady Stanton House, 32 Washington Street, Seneca Falls, Seneca County, NY", 3 photos, 7 measured drawings, 1 photo caption page

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