National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Fannie Lou Hamer
Born 1917
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Anne Hutchinson
Born 1591
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Linda G. Alvarado
Born 1951
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Born 1959
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Henrietta Szold
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Swanee Hunt
Born 1950
Achievements: Philanthropy
2007 Inductee
Kate Stoneman
Born 1841
Achievements: Government
2009 Inductee
Pearl S. Buck
Born 1892
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Born 1926
Achievements: Science
2007 Inductee
Helen Stephens
Born 1918
Achievements: Athletics
1993 Inductee
Harriet Tubman
Born c.1820
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
1988 Inductee
Anna Jacobson Schwartz
Born 1915
Achievements: Business
2013 Inductee
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Karen DeCrow
Karen DeCrow
Born 1937
Achievements: Government, Humanities
2009 Inductee
Victoria Jackson
Born 1955
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Donna de Varona
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee
Anne Dallas Dudley
Born 1876
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Edith Wharton
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Edith Nourse Rogers
Born 1881
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Temple Grandin
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities, Science
2017 Inductee
Lydia Maria Child
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Winona LaDuke
Born 1959
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Sally Ride
Born 1951
Achievements: Science
1988 Inductee
Louisa May Alcott
Born 1832
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee

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Calling All Storytellers & Artists

July is the anniversary of the first ever Women’s Rights Convention which took place in Seneca Falls on July 19th, 1848. This July, the 20th – 22nd, we celebrate Convention Days: 170 years since the...

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Wondering What’s Going On at the Mill?

Wonder no more! Starting this Wednesday, July 11th at 12 o’clock noon, the National Women’s Hall of Fame will begin hosting Live Facebook Mill Updates every other Wednesday! Join us as our Gilbane...

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Bayer Offers Tribute to Dr. Blackwell

By Hobart and William Smith Colleges on May 7th, 2018 Professor of Women’s Studies Betty Bayer joined a panel of distinguished speakers for the unveiling of the historic plaque marking the hospital...

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News & Events

Hall Mourns Bernice “Bunny” Sandler

Bernice Resnick Sandler Dr. Bernice “Bunny” Sandler, the “Godmother of Title IX,” died peacefully at her home in Washington, DC, on Saturday January 5, 2019. She was 90. A high-spirited and highly effective advocate for women’s equality for more than 50 years, Dr....

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