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!

Anne Hutchinson
Born 1591
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Emma Hart Willard
Born 1787
Achievements: Education
2013 Inductee
Julia Child
Born 1912
Achievements: Arts
2007 Inductee
Gertrude "Trudy" Ederle
Born 1905
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee
Octavia E. Butler
Born 1947
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Ina May Gaskin
Born 1940
Achievements: Science
2013 Inductee
Eleanor K. Baum
Born 1940
Achievements: Education, Science
2007 Inductee
Esther Peterson
Born 1906
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Mary Burnett Talbert
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Ellen Swallow Richards
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Victoria Woodhull
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Lorraine Hansberry
Born 1930
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2017 Inductee
Patricia A. Locke
Born 1928
Achievements: Education
2005 Inductee
Angela Davis
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Gertrude Belle Elion
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
1991 Inductee
Elaine Roulet
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Elizabeth Bayley Seton
Born 1774
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Mother Marianne Cope
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Mother Mary Joseph Rogers, MM
Born 1882
Achievements: Humanities
2013 Inductee
Janet Reno
Born 1938
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Patricia Bath
Born 1942
Achievements: Science
2024 Inductee
Madam C. J. Walker
Born 1867
Achievements: Business
1993 Inductee
Willa Cather
Born 1873
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Billie Jean King
Born 1943
Achievements: Athletics
1990 Inductee
Nannerl O. Keohane
Born 1940
Achievements: Education
1995 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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