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!

Frances Oldham Kelsey
Born 1914
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Betty Ford
Born 1918
Achievements: Humanities
2013 Inductee
St. Katharine Drexel
Born 1858
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Lucille Ball
Born 1911
Achievements: Arts, Business
2001 Inductee
Dolores Huerta
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Bertha Holt
Born 1904
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Donna E. Shalala
Born 1941
Achievements: Education, Government
2011 Inductee
Annie Oakley
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1993 Inductee
Gertrude Belle Elion
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
1991 Inductee
Diane von Furstenberg
Born 1946
Achievements: Arts, Business
2019 Inductee
Althea Gibson
Born 1927
Achievements: Athletics
2001 Inductee
Rachel Carson
Born 1907
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Sally Ride
Born 1951
Achievements: Science
1988 Inductee
Ellen Swallow Richards
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Florence Wald
Born 1916
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Catherine Filene Shouse
Born 1896
Achievements: Arts, Philanthropy
2007 Inductee
Helen Murray Free
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter
Born 1926
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Willa Cather
Born 1873
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Born 1811
Achievements: Arts
1986 Inductee
Esther Peterson
Born 1906
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Marian Wright Edelman
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Bessie Smith
Born c.1894
Achievements: Arts
1984 Inductee
Octavia E. Butler
Born 1947
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Edith Wharton
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts
1996 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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