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.

Jeanne Holm
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Faye Glenn Abdellah
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Born 1890
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Virginia Apgar
Born 1909
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Jane Fonda
Born 1937
Achievements: Arts, Government, Humanities
2019 Inductee
Dolores Huerta
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Sophia Smith
Born 1796
Achievements: Education, Philanthropy
2000 Inductee
Mary "Mother" Harris Jones
Born 1837
Achievements: Humanities
1984 Inductee
Oprah Winfrey
Born 1954
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Born 1811
Achievements: Arts
1986 Inductee
Allie B. Latimer
Born 1931
Achievements: Government
2009 Inductee
Matilda Raffa Cuomo
Born 1931
Achievements: Education, Government, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Zora Neale Hurston
Born 1891
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay
Born 1922
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1996 Inductee
Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose
Born 1810
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
Angelina Grimké Weld
Born 1805
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Lydia Maria Child
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Wilma Mankiller
Born 1945
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Edith Nourse Rogers
Born 1881
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Born 1947
Achievements: Government
2005 Inductee
Aimée Mullins
Born 1976
Achievements: Arts, Athletics, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Judith L. Pipher
Born 1940
Achievements: Education, Science
2007 Inductee
Barbara Jordan
Born 1936
Achievements: Government
1990 Inductee
Barbara Hillary
Born 1931
Achievements: Athletics
2020 Inductee
Marian Wright Edelman
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
1993 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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