National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Tenley Albright
Born 1935
Achievements: Athletics, Science
2015 Inductee
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Born 1906
Achievements: Arts, Science
1996 Inductee
Catherine East
Born 1916
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Victoria Jackson
Born 1955
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Lucretia Mott
Born 1793
Achievements: Humanities
1983 Inductee
Kathrine Switzer
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2011 Inductee
Marian Anderson
Born 1897
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Barbara A. Mikulski
Born 1936
Achievements: Government
2011 Inductee
Katharine Graham
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts, Business
2002 Inductee
Grace Hopper
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Winona LaDuke
Born 1959
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Florence Ellinwood Allen
Born 1884
Achievements: Government
2005 Inductee
Helen Stephens
Born 1918
Achievements: Athletics
1993 Inductee
Ruth Fulton Benedict
Born 1887
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Donna E. Shalala
Born 1941
Achievements: Education, Government
2011 Inductee
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Born 1890
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Matilda Raffa Cuomo
Born 1931
Achievements: Education, Government, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Barbara Rose Johns Powell
Born 1935
Achievements: Education, Government
2020 Inductee
Mary Church Terrell
Born 1863
Achievements: Government
2020 Inductee
Florence B. Seibert
Born 1897
Achievements: Science
1990 Inductee
Mary Barret Dyer
Born 0
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Sophia Smith
Born 1796
Achievements: Education, Philanthropy
2000 Inductee
Rebecca Talbot Perkins
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2009 Inductee
Patsy Takemoto Mink
Born 1927
Achievements: Government
2003 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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