National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Louise McManus
Born 1896
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Dolores Huerta
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Janet D. Rowley
Born 1925
Achievements: Science
2017 Inductee
Nancy Pelosi
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
2013 Inductee
Elaine Roulet
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Martha Graham
Born 1894
Achievements: Arts
2015 Inductee
Sophia Smith
Born 1796
Achievements: Education, Philanthropy
2000 Inductee
Emily Blackwell
Born 1826
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
Born 1813
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter
Born 1926
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Ella Grasso
Born 1919
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Margaret Fuller
Born 1810
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee
Marian de Forest
Born 1864
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2001 Inductee
Mary Steichen Calderone
Born 1904
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1998 Inductee
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Born 1959
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Lucille Ball
Born 1911
Achievements: Arts, Business
2001 Inductee
Betty Ford
Born 1918
Achievements: Humanities
2013 Inductee
Antoinette Blackwell
Born 1825
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Eudora Welty
Born 1909
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Ida Tarbell
Born 1857
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Victoria Woodhull
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Dorothy H. Andersen
Born 1901
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Lydia Maria Child
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Mary Putnam Jacobi
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Elizabeth Jane Cochran
Born 1864
Achievements: Arts
1998 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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