Anthony House (Adams, Massachusetts)

42.615277777778 - 73.102777777778Koordinaten: 42 ° 36 ' 55 "N, 73 ° 6' 10" W

The Anthony House is a historic house in East Road 67 in Adams, Massachusetts. It is noteworthy for its association with teachers and industrialists from the early days of the city and as the birthplace of Susan B. Anthony, a 1820 -born suffragette. Anthony's father Daniel was an influential member of a Quaker family and co-founder of the Adams Academy, a secondary school. He and his brother built in 1822 one of the first mills in Adams, before the family left the area and 1825 to Upstate New York moved.

In the house there is a two and a half storey building complete with central hall in the Federal style. In the center of the roof is twin chimneys rise, and a modest anderthalbstöckiger extension was added at the rear of the building, with the added in the 1950s porch was closed on one side of that crop in the following decade. A barn on the property was replaced by a modern garage. The original plan of the building has been preserved; he has beside the central hall, flanked by parlors on either side to the front side of the house, smaller rooms in the back part of the building; the attachment contains two rooms. Most of the original wooden interior is still present, a fireplace, however, was bricked up. The house is now a museum that is dedicated to Susan B. Anthony youth.

History

The first member of the Anthony family in Adams, David Anthony, the great-grandfather of Susan B. Anthony, in the years before the American Revolutionary War. He came into the area, as generally Quakers from Rhode Iceland and southeastern Massachusetts came to the region. He founded a sawmill that is up to the present in the family. His grandson, also David Anthony, built the house in 1817. Daniel Anthony also continued the sawmill, founded in 1822 a cotton mill, the pumping Log Mill He went to public education and taught at the East Road School before he, along with other in the community of Quakers 1825 found that belonged to his father, who founded Adams Academy. 1827 pulled the younger David Anthony for financial reasons after Battenville, New York.

The house remained until 1895 in the family and then moved several times the owner. The Society of Friends Descendants acquired the property in 1926 un founded a museum. 1949, the house was again in private ownership. It is operated by a nonprofit organization as a historical museum.

On January 3, 1985, the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.