National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Eleanor Smeal
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Elizabeth Bayley Seton
Born 1774
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Louise McManus
Born 1896
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Gloria Steinem
Born 1934
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Myra Bradwell
Born 1831
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Temple Grandin
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities, Science
2017 Inductee
Katherine Johnson
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
2021 Inductee
Geraldine Ferraro
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Nannerl O. Keohane
Born 1940
Achievements: Education
1995 Inductee
Philippa Marrack
Born 1945
Achievements: Science
2015 Inductee
Emma Smith DeVoe
Born 1848
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Sherry Lansing
Born 1944
Achievements: Arts, Business, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Sojourner Truth
Born c.1797
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Sheila E. Widnall
Born 1938
Achievements: Education, Government, Science
2003 Inductee
Bertha Holt
Born 1904
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Mary Breckinridge
Born 1881
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Rosa Parks
Born 1913
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Ruth Fulton Benedict
Born 1887
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Jeanne Holm
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Betty Friedan
Born 1921
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Blanche Stuart Scott
Born 1889
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Barbara McClintock
Born 1902
Achievements: Science
1986 Inductee
Ruth Patrick
Born 1907
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Marian Wright Edelman
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee

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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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