National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Mary Putnam Jacobi
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Allucquére Rosanne Stone
Born 1936
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Elouise Cobell
Born 1945
Achievements: Business
2024 Inductee
Anna Jacobson Schwartz
Born 1915
Achievements: Business
2013 Inductee
Pearl S. Buck
Born 1892
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Belva Lockwood
Born 1830
Achievements: Government
1983 Inductee
Nancy Pelosi
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
2013 Inductee
Octavia E. Butler
Born 1947
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Sally Ride
Born 1951
Achievements: Science
1988 Inductee
Mary Engle Pennington
Born 1872
Achievements: Science
2002 Inductee
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
Born 1850
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose
Born 1810
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
Dorothy H. Andersen
Born 1901
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Beverly Sills
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Leontine T.C. Kelly
Born 1920
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Loretta Ross
Born 1953
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Amelia Earhart
Born 1897
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Esther Peterson
Born 1906
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Kathrine Switzer
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2011 Inductee
Barbara Iglewski
Born 1938
Achievements: Science
2015 Inductee
Maria Tallchief
Born 1925
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Frances E. Willard
Born 1839
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Constance Baker Motley
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Karen DeCrow
Karen DeCrow
Born 1937
Achievements: Government, Humanities
2009 Inductee
Patsy Takemoto Mink
Born 1927
Achievements: Government
2003 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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