National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Diane von Furstenberg
Born 1946
Achievements: Arts, Business
2019 Inductee
Eudora Welty
Born 1909
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Emma Smith DeVoe
Born 1848
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Sylvia A. Earle
Born 1935
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Amelia Earhart
Born 1897
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Mary Barret Dyer
Born 0
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Catherine East
Born 1916
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Dorothea Lange
Born 1895
Achievements: Arts
2003 Inductee
Anne Sullivan
Born 1866
Achievements: Education
2003 Inductee
Virginia Apgar
Born 1909
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Nicole Malachowski
Born 1974
Achievements: Government
2019 Inductee
Jean Kilbourne
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Flossie Wong-Staal
Born 1947
Achievements: Science
2019 Inductee
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
1988 Inductee
Jane Addams
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Blanche Stuart Scott
Born 1889
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Crystal Eastman
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Rosalyn S. Yalow
Born 1921
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Born 1823
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Annie Dodge Wauneka
Born 1910
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Fanny Wright
Born 1795
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Anna Jacobson Schwartz
Born 1915
Achievements: Business
2013 Inductee
Louise Bourgeois
Born 1911
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Antonia Novello
Born 1944
Achievements: Government, Science
1994 Inductee
Karen DeCrow
Karen DeCrow
Born 1937
Achievements: Government, Humanities
2009 Inductee

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Induction Weekend Experience

By Pam Sherman When we moved to Rochester 15 years ago, my husband told me about this amazing event that takes place every two years in Seneca Falls. The National Women’s Hall of Fame Induction...

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2017 Inductee Interviews

WXXI News, Aimee Mullins One of the women soon to be inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame has been breaking through barriers her entire life. "I can do anything if I set my mind to it,...

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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 campaignwith a focus on sites that celebrate the fight for equality....

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