National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Lucretia Mott
Born 1793
Achievements: Humanities
1983 Inductee
Lucy Stone
Born 1818
Achievements: Humanities
1986 Inductee
Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori
Born 1896
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Edith Nourse Rogers
Born 1881
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Fanny Wright
Born 1795
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Grace Hopper
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Betty Bone Schiess
Born 1923
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Born 1823
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Marcia Greenberger
Born 1946
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Ethel Percy Andrus
Born 1884
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Anna Wessels Williams
Born 1863
Achievements: Science
2024 Inductee
Loretta Ross
Born 1953
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Belva Lockwood
Born 1830
Achievements: Government
1983 Inductee
Helen Hayes
Born 1900
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Born 1921
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Emily Howell Warner
Born 1939
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Betty Bumpers
Born 1925
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Elizabeth Jane Cochran
Born 1864
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Dorothy Day
Born 1897
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Mildred Robbins Leet
Born 1922
Achievements: Philanthropy
2003 Inductee
Wilma L. Vaught
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Barbara Holdridge
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business
2001 Inductee
Jane Cunningham Croly
Born 1829
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Clara Barton
Born 1821
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Marian Anderson
Born 1897
Achievements: Arts
1973 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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