National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Martha Matilda Harper
Born 1857
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Sojourner Truth
Born c.1797
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Betty Bone Schiess
Born 1923
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Maria Tallchief
Born 1925
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Alice Paul
Born 1885
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Karen DeCrow
Karen DeCrow
Born 1937
Achievements: Government, Humanities
2009 Inductee
Victoria Jackson
Born 1955
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Carlotta Walls LaNier
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Charlotte Anne Bunch
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1996 Inductee
Patricia A. Locke
Born 1928
Achievements: Education
2005 Inductee
Mary Burnett Talbert
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Joy Harjo
Born 1951
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Chien-Shiung Wu
Born 1912
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Dorothy Harrison Eustis
Born 1886
Achievements: Philanthropy
2011 Inductee
Nettie Stevens
Born 1861
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Marian Anderson
Born 1897
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Helen Brooke Taussig
Born 1898
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Lydia Maria Child
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Sandra Day O'Connor
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Lucille Ball
Born 1911
Achievements: Arts, Business
2001 Inductee
Mary Harriman Rumsey
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Gertrude Belle Elion
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
1991 Inductee
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
Born 1878
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Ellen Swallow Richards
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Myra Bradwell
Born 1831
Achievements: Government
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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