National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Joy Harjo
Born 1951
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Jeannette Rankin
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Chien-Shiung Wu
Born 1912
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Barbara Hillary
Born 1931
Achievements: Athletics
2020 Inductee
Temple Grandin
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities, Science
2017 Inductee
Octavia E. Butler
Born 1947
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Ida Tarbell
Born 1857
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Eleanor Smeal
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Hannah Greenebaum Solomon
Born 1858
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Carrie Chapman Catt
Born 1859
Achievements: Humanities
1982 Inductee
Anna Howard Shaw
Born 1847
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Bella Abzug
Born 1920
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Belva Lockwood
Born 1830
Achievements: Government
1983 Inductee
Juliette Gordon Low
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Florence Sabin
Born 1871
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
Born 1813
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Rosa Parks
Born 1913
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Ann Bancroft
Born 1955
Achievements: Education, Science
1995 Inductee
Shannon W. Lucid
Born 1943
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Patricia A. Locke
Born 1928
Achievements: Education
2005 Inductee
Patsy Takemoto Mink
Born 1927
Achievements: Government
2003 Inductee
Elizabeth Hanford Dole
Born 1936
Achievements: Government, Humanities
1995 Inductee
Rebecca Halstead
Born 1959
Achievements: Government
2021 Inductee
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Born 1926
Achievements: Science
2007 Inductee
Helen Murray Free
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee

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News & Events

Building benches to benefit the Hall

By Hammerstone School Did you know that the historic town of Seneca Falls, NY is just up the road from Hammerstone? This is where the first Women’s Rights Convention was held, an effort which ultimately led to the winning of women’s suffrage. While women have gained...

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CONFLUENCE: 1844 meets 2017

By Betty M. Bayer on June 26, 2017, Finger Lakes Times Confluence: a word concerned with things — places, people, ideas — flowing together may be the most apt word to describe the National Women’s Hall of Fame’s rehabilitation of the 1844 Seneca Knitting Mill as its...

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Walls coming down at former Seneca Knitting Mill

By David L. Shaw on May 29, 2017, Finger Lakes Times SENECA FALLS — Demolition of former Seneca Knitting Mill structures on both sides of the limestone building that will be the new home of the National Women’s Hall of Fame is scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday. Crews from...

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