National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Catherine Filene Shouse
Born 1896
Achievements: Arts, Philanthropy
2007 Inductee
Patricia Bath
Born 1942
Achievements: Science
2024 Inductee
Antonia Novello
Born 1944
Achievements: Government, Science
1994 Inductee
Frances Wisebart Jacobs
Born 1843
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Marcia Greenberger
Born 1946
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Mother Mary Joseph Rogers, MM
Born 1882
Achievements: Humanities
2013 Inductee
Tenley Albright
Born 1935
Achievements: Athletics, Science
2015 Inductee
Joy Harjo
Born 1951
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Anna Wessels Williams
Born 1863
Achievements: Science
2024 Inductee
Gertrude "Trudy" Ederle
Born 1905
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee
Allucquére Rosanne Stone
Born 1936
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Serena Williams
Born 1981
Achievements: Athletics, Business
2024 Inductee
Susan B. Anthony
Born 1820
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Rebecca Talbot Perkins
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2009 Inductee
Mary Mahoney
Born 1845
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Mia Hamm
Born 1972
Achievements: Athletics
2021 Inductee
Lucille Ball
Born 1911
Achievements: Arts, Business
2001 Inductee
Ann Bancroft
Born 1955
Achievements: Education, Science
1995 Inductee
Florence Ellinwood Allen
Born 1884
Achievements: Government
2005 Inductee
Belva Lockwood
Born 1830
Achievements: Government
1983 Inductee
Zora Neale Hurston
Born 1891
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter
Born 1926
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Nettie Stevens
Born 1861
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Helen Stephens
Born 1918
Achievements: Athletics
1993 Inductee

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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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