National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Gertrude Belle Elion
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
1991 Inductee
Alice Evans
Born 1881
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Shannon W. Lucid
Born 1943
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Jean Kilbourne
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Billie Holiday
Born 1915
Achievements: Arts
2011 Inductee
Henrietta Szold
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Barbara Holdridge
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business
2001 Inductee
Toni Morrison
Born 1931
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2020 Inductee
Nancy Pelosi
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
2013 Inductee
Emily Blackwell
Born 1826
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Kate Stoneman
Born 1841
Achievements: Government
2009 Inductee
Margaret Fuller
Born 1810
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee
Gloria Steinem
Born 1934
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Florence Sabin
Born 1871
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Willa Cather
Born 1873
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Sacagawea / Sacajawea / Sakakawea
Born c.1788
Achievements: Humanities
2003 Inductee
Geraldine Ferraro
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Mary Barret Dyer
Born 0
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Dorothy H. Andersen
Born 1901
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Elizabeth Hanford Dole
Born 1936
Achievements: Government, Humanities
1995 Inductee
Rosalyn S. Yalow
Born 1921
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Sonia Sotomayor
Born 1954
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Carrie Chapman Catt
Born 1859
Achievements: Humanities
1982 Inductee
Oprah Winfrey
Born 1954
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1994 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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