National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

 

The National Women’s Hall of Fame will be OPEN July 5th from 1 – 6 pm and CLOSED July 5th.

Bessie Coleman
Born 1892
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Born 1826
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Martha Matilda Harper
Born 1857
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Oveta Culp Hobby
Born 1905
Achievements: Government
1996 Inductee
Katherine Johnson
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
2021 Inductee
Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose
Born 1810
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
Sherry Lansing
Born 1944
Achievements: Arts, Business, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Peggy McIntosh
Born 1934
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Mary Cassatt
Born 1844
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Mildred Cohn
Born 1913
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Zora Neale Hurston
Born 1891
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Linda G. Alvarado
Born 1951
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Alice Waters
Born 1944
Achievements: Business, Education, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Frances E. Willard
Born 1839
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Bessie Smith
Born c.1894
Achievements: Arts
1984 Inductee
Virginia Apgar
Born 1909
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Jacqueline Cochran
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Born 1842
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Margaret Bourke-White
Born 1904
Achievements: Arts
1990 Inductee
Michelle Obama
Born 1964
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2021 Inductee
Laurie Spiegel
Born 1945
Achievements: Arts
2019 Inductee
Lucille Ball
Born 1911
Achievements: Arts, Business
2001 Inductee
Katharine Dexter McCormick
Born 1875
Achievements: Humanities, Philanthropy
1998 Inductee
Allucquére Rosanne Stone
Born 1936
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Betty Ford
Born 1918
Achievements: Humanities
2013 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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