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.

Dorothea Lange
Born 1895
Achievements: Arts
2003 Inductee
Marian Anderson
Born 1897
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Katharine Graham
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts, Business
2002 Inductee
Mary Mahoney
Born 1845
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Catherine Filene Shouse
Born 1896
Achievements: Arts, Philanthropy
2007 Inductee
Oprah Winfrey
Born 1954
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Sonia Sotomayor
Born 1954
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Lydia Maria Child
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Ella Baker
Born 1903
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Margaret Fuller
Born 1810
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee
Gwendolyn Brooks
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Barbara Holdridge
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business
2001 Inductee
Mother Marianne Cope
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Donna de Varona
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee
Dorothy H. Andersen
Born 1901
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Elaine Roulet
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Laurie Spiegel
Born 1945
Achievements: Arts
2019 Inductee
Beverly Sills
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Frances Wisebart Jacobs
Born 1843
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Patricia Schroeder
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Victoria Jackson
Born 1955
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Katherine Johnson
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
2021 Inductee
Rita Rossi Colwell
Born 1934
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Eudora Welty
Born 1909
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Sarah Winnemucca
Born c.1844
Achievements: Humanities
1994 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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