National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Leontine T.C. Kelly
Born 1920
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Born 1823
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Ina May Gaskin
Born 1940
Achievements: Science
2013 Inductee
Kate Mullany
Born 1845
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Willa Cather
Born 1873
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Felice N. Schwartz
Born 1925
Achievements: Business
1998 Inductee
Sally Ride
Born 1951
Achievements: Science
1988 Inductee
Ruth Patrick
Born 1907
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Julia Ward Howe
Born 1819
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Born 1926
Achievements: Science
2007 Inductee
Oveta Culp Hobby
Born 1905
Achievements: Government
1996 Inductee
Maria Mitchell
Born 1818
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Louise Bourgeois
Born 1911
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Rebecca Talbot Perkins
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2009 Inductee
Margaret Fuller
Born 1810
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee
Alice Hamilton
Born 1869
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Edith Nourse Rogers
Born 1881
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Sandra Day O'Connor
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Jane Fonda
Born 1937
Achievements: Arts, Government, Humanities
2019 Inductee
Annie Dodge Wauneka
Born 1910
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Louisa May Alcott
Born 1832
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Emily Howell Warner
Born 1939
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Serena Williams
Born 1981
Achievements: Athletics, Business
2024 Inductee
Helen LaKelly Hunt
Born 1949
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 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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