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!

Virginia Apgar
Born 1909
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Helen Stephens
Born 1918
Achievements: Athletics
1993 Inductee
Mother Mary Joseph Rogers, MM
Born 1882
Achievements: Humanities
2013 Inductee
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Born 1890
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Mary Breckinridge
Born 1881
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Henrietta Szold
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Jean Kilbourne
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Oveta Culp Hobby
Born 1905
Achievements: Government
1996 Inductee
Myra Bradwell
Born 1831
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Sherry Lansing
Born 1944
Achievements: Arts, Business, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Barbara Jordan
Born 1936
Achievements: Government
1990 Inductee
Ruth Fulton Benedict
Born 1887
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Rosalyn S. Yalow
Born 1921
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
St. Katharine Drexel
Born 1858
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Mary Burnett Talbert
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Kathrine Switzer
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2011 Inductee
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1996 Inductee
Georgia O'Keeffe
Born 1887
Achievements: Arts
1993 Inductee
Rebecca Talbot Perkins
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2009 Inductee
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Born 1921
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Alice Paul
Born 1885
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Sally Ride
Born 1951
Achievements: Science
1988 Inductee
Nannerl O. Keohane
Born 1940
Achievements: Education
1995 Inductee
Florence Ellinwood Allen
Born 1884
Achievements: Government
2005 Inductee
Betty Bumpers
Born 1925
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee

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Latest Updates

2017 Induction Weekend

2017 Induction Weekend

Save the Date! The 2017 National Women's Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will take place September 15, 16 & 17, 2017 in Seneca Falls, NY. More details to come.

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News & Events

Embracing curiosity, facing the world

By Betty Bayer special to the Finger Lakes Times August’s summer light is giving way to September’s fall equinox in the Finger Lakes. It’s a great time to turn attention to all the things that make this world revolve to illuminate different — and sometimes new —...

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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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