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.

Flossie Wong-Staal
Born 1947
Achievements: Science
2019 Inductee
Zora Neale Hurston
Born 1891
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Donna de Varona
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee
Mary Steichen Calderone
Born 1904
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1998 Inductee
Betty Bumpers
Born 1925
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Margaret Sanger
Born 1879
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Indra Nooyi
Born 1955
Achievements: Business
2021 Inductee
Nannerl O. Keohane
Born 1940
Achievements: Education
1995 Inductee
Angelina Grimké Weld
Born 1805
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Gertrude Belle Elion
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
1991 Inductee
Mary "Mother" Harris Jones
Born 1837
Achievements: Humanities
1984 Inductee
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Patricia Roberts Harris
Born 1924
Achievements: Government
2003 Inductee
Victoria Jackson
Born 1955
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Lorraine Hansberry
Born 1930
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2017 Inductee
Althea Gibson
Born 1927
Achievements: Athletics
2001 Inductee
Eileen Collins
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Catherine Filene Shouse
Born 1896
Achievements: Arts, Philanthropy
2007 Inductee
Lucy Stone
Born 1818
Achievements: Humanities
1986 Inductee
Ruth Fulton Benedict
Born 1887
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Anna Jacobson Schwartz
Born 1915
Achievements: Business
2013 Inductee
Beatrice A. Hicks
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Temple Grandin
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities, Science
2017 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Joan Ganz Cooney
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business, Education
1998 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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