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.

Maya Y. Lin
Born 1959
Achievements: Arts
2005 Inductee
Madam C. J. Walker
Born 1867
Achievements: Business
1993 Inductee
Barbara Rose Johns Powell
Born 1935
Achievements: Education, Government
2020 Inductee
Susan B. Anthony
Born 1820
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Frances E. Willard
Born 1839
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Beverly Sills
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Angelina Grimké Weld
Born 1805
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Rosa Parks
Born 1913
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Sarah Grimké
Born 1792
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Mary Mahoney
Born 1845
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Sherry Lansing
Born 1944
Achievements: Arts, Business, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Martha Wright Griffiths
Born 1912
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Loretta Ross
Born 1953
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Oveta Culp Hobby
Born 1905
Achievements: Government
1996 Inductee
Mary Breckinridge
Born 1881
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Betty Ford
Born 1918
Achievements: Humanities
2013 Inductee
Emma Lazarus
Born 1849
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Marian Wright Edelman
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Ellen Swallow Richards
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Born 1933
Achievements: Government
2002 Inductee
Carlotta Walls LaNier
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Margaret Sanger
Born 1879
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Mary A. Hallaren
Born 1907
Achievements: Government
1996 Inductee
Mary Steichen Calderone
Born 1904
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1998 Inductee
Swanee Hunt
Born 1950
Achievements: Philanthropy
2007 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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