National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Rozanne L. Ridgway
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Lucretia Mott
Born 1793
Achievements: Humanities
1983 Inductee
Betty Bumpers
Born 1925
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Temple Grandin
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities, Science
2017 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Muriel Siebert
Born 1928
Achievements: Business
1994 Inductee
Aretha Franklin
Born 1942
Achievements: Arts
2020 Inductee
Ruth Fulton Benedict
Born 1887
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Jacqueline Cochran
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Geraldine Ferraro
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Maggie Kuhn
Born 1905
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Allucquére Rosanne Stone
Born 1936
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Born 1811
Achievements: Arts
1986 Inductee
Faye Wattleton
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Joy Harjo
Born 1951
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Elaine Roulet
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Faye Glenn Abdellah
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Martha Graham
Born 1894
Achievements: Arts
2015 Inductee
Donna de Varona
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee
Barbara Hillary
Born 1931
Achievements: Athletics
2020 Inductee
Patricia Schroeder
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Dorothea Lange
Born 1895
Achievements: Arts
2003 Inductee
Sylvia A. Earle
Born 1935
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Shirley Chisholm
Born 1924
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Janet Reno
Born 1938
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee

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Latest Updates

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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