National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Lydia Moss Bradley
Born 1816
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
1998 Inductee
Mary Breckinridge
Born 1881
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Shirley Chisholm
Born 1924
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Rebecca Talbot Perkins
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2009 Inductee
Jane Fonda
Born 1937
Achievements: Arts, Government, Humanities
2019 Inductee
Rebecca Halstead
Born 1959
Achievements: Government
2021 Inductee
Dorothy H. Andersen
Born 1901
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Esther Peterson
Born 1906
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Virginia Apgar
Born 1909
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Victoria Jackson
Born 1955
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Zora Neale Hurston
Born 1891
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Sandra Day O'Connor
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Katherine Johnson
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
2021 Inductee
Kate Millett
Born 1934
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
2013 Inductee
Winona LaDuke
Born 1959
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Mary Barret Dyer
Born 0
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Ann Bancroft
Born 1955
Achievements: Education, Science
1995 Inductee
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Born 1890
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Mary Baker Eddy
Born 1821
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Martha Wright Griffiths
Born 1912
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Mildred Robbins Leet
Born 1922
Achievements: Philanthropy
2003 Inductee
Gertrude Belle Elion
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
1991 Inductee
Jane Cunningham Croly
Born 1829
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Elouise Cobell
Born 1945
Achievements: Business
2024 Inductee
Matilda Raffa Cuomo
Born 1931
Achievements: Education, Government, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee

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Latest Updates

Embracing curiosity, facing the world

By Betty Bayer special to the Finger Lakes Times August’s summer light is giving way to September’s fall equinox in the Finger Lakes. It’s a great time to turn attention to all the things that make...

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Building benches to benefit the Hall

By Hammerstone School Did you know that the historic town of Seneca Falls, NY is just up the road from Hammerstone? This is where the first Women’s Rights Convention was held, an effort which...

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CONFLUENCE: 1844 meets 2017

By Betty M. Bayer on June 26, 2017, Finger Lakes Times Confluence: a word concerned with things — places, people, ideas — flowing together may be the most apt word to describe the National Women’s...

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News & Events

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, farmers, glassmakers, musicians, and the wine makers featured here....

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Imagine the Conversation Contest Winner!

We asked you to Imagine the Conversation that inspired this statue, when Amelia Bloomer introduced Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. You all certainly delivered, and we received dozens of amazing submissions. A committee went through all the submissions and...

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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 event that changed all of our lives in critical ways. Three years...

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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 Project Supervisor, Mackenzie Delaney, tours us through the...

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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 founded by Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell Class of 1849, the first woman in...

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