Elizabeth Cady Stanton House, 1868

Bergen County, Tenafly Borough
Private Residence
National Historical Landmark

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) with contemporary Susan B. Anthony pioneered the women’s suffrage movement in the United States. Entering the national spotlight in 1848 at the Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, Stanton remained a vocal and influential advocate for women’s voting rights in a career spanning more than six decades. Many historians believe her most active and productive years as a reformer were spent in the two-story home she and husband Henry Brewster Stanton built in Tenafly in 1868. Here she began writing in collaboration with Anthony her most important work, the multi-volume History of Woman Suffrage, starting in 1876. Stanton lived in Tenafly until her husband’s death in 1887. Originally built in the Second Empire style with a mansard roof, it has been altered with Colonial Revival features, and remains in private ownership.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton House. 
Courtesy Borough of Tenafly

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.  Courtesy Library of Congress

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