National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Bertha Holt
Born 1904
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Julia Child
Born 1912
Achievements: Arts
2007 Inductee
Helen Brooke Taussig
Born 1898
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Dorothy Day
Born 1897
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Nannerl O. Keohane
Born 1940
Achievements: Education
1995 Inductee
Jeanne Holm
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Ruth Colvin
Born 1916
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee
Kate Stoneman
Born 1841
Achievements: Government
2009 Inductee
Margaret Chase Smith
Born 1897
Achievements: Government
1973 Inductee
Rita Rossi Colwell
Born 1934
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Angelina Grimké Weld
Born 1805
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Antoinette Blackwell
Born 1825
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Shirley Chisholm
Born 1924
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Sandra Day O'Connor
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Sylvia A. Earle
Born 1935
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Bernice Resnick Sandler
Born 1928
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2013 Inductee
Indra Nooyi
Born 1955
Achievements: Business
2021 Inductee
Rozanne L. Ridgway
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Helen LaKelly Hunt
Born 1949
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Victoria Woodhull
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Constance Baker Motley
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Faye Glenn Abdellah
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Susan Solomon
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Amelia Bloomer
Born 1818
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Gloria Yerkovich
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
1993 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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