National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

 

The National Women’s Hall of Fame will be OPEN July 5th from 1 – 6 pm and CLOSED July 5th.

Matilda Joslyn Gage
Born 1826
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Emily Howell Warner
Born 1939
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Ella Grasso
Born 1919
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Jeannette Rankin
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Esther Peterson
Born 1906
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Willa Cather
Born 1873
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Nannerl O. Keohane
Born 1940
Achievements: Education
1995 Inductee
Janet Reno
Born 1938
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
1988 Inductee
Eudora Welty
Born 1909
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Abigail Adams
Born 1744
Achievements: Humanities
1976 Inductee
Mae Jemison
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
Born 1878
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Louise Slaughter
Born 1929
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Edith Wharton
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Anna Howard Shaw
Born 1847
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose
Born 1810
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
Rosa Parks
Born 1913
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Catherine East
Born 1916
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Mary Barret Dyer
Born 0
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Ellen Swallow Richards
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Sarah Winnemucca
Born c.1844
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Nettie Stevens
Born 1861
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Mary Lyon
Born 1797
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee
Dorothy Day
Born 1897
Achievements: Humanities
2001 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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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.

Give today. Because every woman’s story deserves to be heard—and remembered.

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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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