National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Jeannette Rankin
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose
Born 1810
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
Esther Peterson
Born 1906
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Tenley Albright
Born 1935
Achievements: Athletics, Science
2015 Inductee
Frances Perkins
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1982 Inductee
Jane Fonda
Born 1937
Achievements: Arts, Government, Humanities
2019 Inductee
Wilma Rudolph
Born 1940
Achievements: Athletics
1994 Inductee
Alice Paul
Born 1885
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Helen Stephens
Born 1918
Achievements: Athletics
1993 Inductee
Jean Kilbourne
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Born 1959
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Anne Sullivan
Born 1866
Achievements: Education
2003 Inductee
Lilly Ledbetter
Born 1938
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Wilma L. Vaught
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Ruth Colvin
Born 1916
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee
Gwendolyn Brooks
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Rita Rossi Colwell
Born 1934
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Grace Hopper
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Ella Baker
Born 1903
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
Born 1813
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Geraldine Ferraro
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Shirley Chisholm
Born 1924
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Katherine Johnson
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
2021 Inductee
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
1988 Inductee
Barbara Holdridge
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business
2001 Inductee

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Latest Updates

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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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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Help Us Honor the Women Who Shape Our World

Every story we tell, every name we enshrine, every young mind we inspire—it all starts with support from people like you.

Your donation to the National Women’s Hall of Fame helps preserve and share the legacies of American women whose courage, vision, and leadership have transformed our history. From groundbreaking exhibits to educational programs that empower future generations, your gift fuels our mission to honor the past and light the way forward.

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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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