National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

 

The National Women’s Hall of Fame will be OPEN July 5th from 1 – 6 pm and CLOSED July 5th.

Fanny Wright
Born 1795
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Margaret Sanger
Born 1879
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Betty Bumpers
Born 1925
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Carol A. Mutter
Born 1945
Achievements: Government, Humanities
2017 Inductee
Kathrine Switzer
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2011 Inductee
Dolores Huerta
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Abby Kelley Foster
Born 1811
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Frances Wisebart Jacobs
Born 1843
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Mother Mary Joseph Rogers, MM
Born 1882
Achievements: Humanities
2013 Inductee
Emily Howland
Born 1827
Achievements: Humanities
2021 Inductee
Elouise Cobell
Born 1945
Achievements: Business
2024 Inductee
Gloria Allred
Born 1941
Achievements: Business, Government
2019 Inductee
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Born 1933
Achievements: Government
2002 Inductee
Octavia E. Butler
Born 1947
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Helen Stephens
Born 1918
Achievements: Athletics
1993 Inductee
Sophia Smith
Born 1796
Achievements: Education, Philanthropy
2000 Inductee
Oveta Culp Hobby
Born 1905
Achievements: Government
1996 Inductee
Ann Bancroft
Born 1955
Achievements: Education, Science
1995 Inductee
Nancy Pelosi
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
2013 Inductee
Emma Hart Willard
Born 1787
Achievements: Education
2013 Inductee
Chien-Shiung Wu
Born 1912
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Ella Fitzgerald
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee
Mary Steichen Calderone
Born 1904
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1998 Inductee
Winona LaDuke
Born 1959
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Rita Rossi Colwell
Born 1934
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee

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News & Events

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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