National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

 

Note: The Hall will be closed for an event on 9/27/25

 

Groups welcome!

Maya Angelou
Born 1928
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Frances Perkins
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1982 Inductee
Emily Dickinson
Born 1830
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Angela Davis
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Madam C. J. Walker
Born 1867
Achievements: Business
1993 Inductee
Helen Stephens
Born 1918
Achievements: Athletics
1993 Inductee
Maya Y. Lin
Born 1959
Achievements: Arts
2005 Inductee
Emily Howell Warner
Born 1939
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Rebecca Talbot Perkins
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2009 Inductee
Octavia E. Butler
Born 1947
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Katharine Dexter McCormick
Born 1875
Achievements: Humanities, Philanthropy
1998 Inductee
Gertrude "Trudy" Ederle
Born 1905
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee
Patricia Schroeder
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Alice Paul
Born 1885
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Ella Fitzgerald
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee
Felice N. Schwartz
Born 1925
Achievements: Business
1998 Inductee
Helen Brooke Taussig
Born 1898
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Swanee Hunt
Born 1950
Achievements: Philanthropy
2007 Inductee
Crystal Eastman
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Marian Wright Edelman
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Martha Wright Griffiths
Born 1912
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Loretta C. Ford
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Patricia Roberts Harris
Born 1924
Achievements: Government
2003 Inductee
Emily Howland
Born 1827
Achievements: Humanities
2021 Inductee

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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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The Hall Mourns Congresswoman Louise Slaughter

1929-2018 Long-time friend and colleague of National Women’s Hall of Fame, Louise Slaughter will long be remembered and honored for her steady and true leadership. In Louise Slaughter we have a woman whose leadership stood on the ground of history while shaping a more...

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