National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Angelina Grimké Weld
Born 1805
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Shirley Ann Jackson
Born 1946
Achievements: Education, Science
1998 Inductee
Annie Jump Cannon
Born 1863
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Michelle Obama
Born 1964
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2021 Inductee
Ruth Fulton Benedict
Born 1887
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Betty Bumpers
Born 1925
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Janet D. Rowley
Born 1925
Achievements: Science
2017 Inductee
Geraldine Ferraro
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
St. Katharine Drexel
Born 1858
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Bessie Smith
Born c.1894
Achievements: Arts
1984 Inductee
Tenley Albright
Born 1935
Achievements: Athletics, Science
2015 Inductee
Gloria Steinem
Born 1934
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Muriel Siebert
Born 1928
Achievements: Business
1994 Inductee
Janet Reno
Born 1938
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Mary Barret Dyer
Born 0
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Barbara Hillary
Born 1931
Achievements: Athletics
2020 Inductee
Rosa Parks
Born 1913
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Ella Fitzgerald
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee
Victoria Woodhull
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Alice Waters
Born 1944
Achievements: Business, Education, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Rose O'Neill
Born 1874
Achievements:
2019 Inductee
Martha Wright Griffiths
Born 1912
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Sarah Winnemucca
Born c.1844
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Lilly Ledbetter
Born 1938
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Madeleine Korbel Albright
Born 1937
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee

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Latest Updates

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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