National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Constance Baker Motley
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Nettie Stevens
Born 1861
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Gertrude Belle Elion
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
1991 Inductee
Juliette Gordon Low
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay
Born 1922
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1996 Inductee
Toni Morrison
Born 1931
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2020 Inductee
Emma Hart Willard
Born 1787
Achievements: Education
2013 Inductee
Matilda Raffa Cuomo
Born 1931
Achievements: Education, Government, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Edith Wharton
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Linda Richards
Born 1841
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Rose O'Neill
Born 1874
Achievements:
2019 Inductee
Sarah Deer
Born 1972
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Octavia E. Butler
Born 1947
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Gloria Yerkovich
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Ann Bancroft
Born 1955
Achievements: Education, Science
1995 Inductee
Madeleine Korbel Albright
Born 1937
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Beatrice A. Hicks
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Faye Glenn Abdellah
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Helen LaKelly Hunt
Born 1949
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Anne Hutchinson
Born 1591
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Patricia Bath
Born 1942
Achievements: Science
2024 Inductee
Wilma Mankiller
Born 1945
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Allie B. Latimer
Born 1931
Achievements: Government
2009 Inductee
Frances Wisebart Jacobs
Born 1843
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee

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2018 Partners in Preservation: Main Streets

By National Trust for Historic Preservation on Oct. 29, 2018 In 2018, the National Trust, American Express, and Main Street America headed back to Main Street for our annual Partners in Preservation...

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Women in Wine

Join us on August 31 for this year's Confluence Dinner, a spirited evening on the Seneca Falls waterfront featuring women producers and artists of the Finger Lakes, including cider makers, chefs,...

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News & Events

Fall Street Location is Closed

We will reopen at 1 Canal St in early summer of 2020. Check back for details or follow us on social media. We look forward to welcoming you to our new space!

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Our current location is closing!

Thank you to all who helped make Induction 2019 a success! We are pleased to announce that National Women’s Hall of Fame will be closing our current location at the end of October. We will reopen at 1 Canal St in spring of 2020. Check back for details or follow us on...

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Ginny Ryan: The Keeper of the Flame

A third grade assignment to tell the story of someone else’s life was all it took to hook Ginny Ryan on reporting. At Cardinal Mooney High School and at Buffalo State College, she wrote for the school papers and worked at the campus radio and television stations,...

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Welcome our newest 2019 Inductee Diane von Furstenberg!

Icon of Fashion Design and Philanthropist Diane von Furstenberg is a fashion designer, philanthropist, and Founder and Chairman of the company that bears her name. In 1974, she debuted her iconic wrap dress, which became a symbol of power and independence for women...

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