National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Fanny Wright
Born 1795
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Katherine Siva Saubel
Born 1920
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
1993 Inductee
Frances E. Willard
Born 1839
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Marian Anderson
Born 1897
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Lillian Wald
Born 1867
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Betty Bumpers
Born 1925
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Anna Jacobson Schwartz
Born 1915
Achievements: Business
2013 Inductee
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Born 1959
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Elizabeth Blackwell
Born 1821
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Victoria Woodhull
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Ruth Patrick
Born 1907
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Helen Keller
Born 1880
Achievements: Education
1973 Inductee
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1996 Inductee
Eleanor Roosevelt
Born 1884
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Geraldine Ferraro
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Carrie Chapman Catt
Born 1859
Achievements: Humanities
1982 Inductee
Catherine Filene Shouse
Born 1896
Achievements: Arts, Philanthropy
2007 Inductee
Elaine Roulet
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Clare Boothe Luce
Born 1903
Achievements: Arts, Government, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Esther Peterson
Born 1906
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Carlotta Walls LaNier
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Marian Wright Edelman
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Emily Dickinson
Born 1830
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Nancy Pelosi
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
2013 Inductee
Julie Krone
Born 1963
Achievements: Athletics
2013 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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