National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose
Born 1810
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
Lorraine Hansberry
Born 1930
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2017 Inductee
Swanee Hunt
Born 1950
Achievements: Philanthropy
2007 Inductee
Judith L. Pipher
Born 1940
Achievements: Education, Science
2007 Inductee
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Born 1947
Achievements: Government
2005 Inductee
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Born 1826
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Felice N. Schwartz
Born 1925
Achievements: Business
1998 Inductee
Indra Nooyi
Born 1955
Achievements: Business
2021 Inductee
Sonia Sotomayor
Born 1954
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Mary Putnam Jacobi
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Oprah Winfrey
Born 1954
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Betty Friedan
Born 1921
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Donna E. Shalala
Born 1941
Achievements: Education, Government
2011 Inductee
Ethel Percy Andrus
Born 1884
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Mae Jemison
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Ruth Colvin
Born 1916
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee
Ida Tarbell
Born 1857
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Lilly Ledbetter
Born 1938
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Barbara Holdridge
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business
2001 Inductee
Barbara A. Mikulski
Born 1936
Achievements: Government
2011 Inductee
Marcia Greenberger
Born 1946
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Susette La Flesche
Born 1854
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Sojourner Truth
Born c.1797
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Tenley Albright
Born 1935
Achievements: Athletics, Science
2015 Inductee
Martha Wright Griffiths
Born 1912
Achievements: Government
1993 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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