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.

Florence Ellinwood Allen
Born 1884
Achievements: Government
2005 Inductee
Elizabeth Bayley Seton
Born 1774
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Faye Glenn Abdellah
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Susan B. Anthony
Born 1820
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Carlotta Walls LaNier
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias
Born 1911
Achievements: Athletics
1976 Inductee
Judith L. Pipher
Born 1940
Achievements: Education, Science
2007 Inductee
Barbara McClintock
Born 1902
Achievements: Science
1986 Inductee
Bernice Resnick Sandler
Born 1928
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2013 Inductee
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Born 1890
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Martha Graham
Born 1894
Achievements: Arts
2015 Inductee
Temple Grandin
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities, Science
2017 Inductee
Ina May Gaskin
Born 1940
Achievements: Science
2013 Inductee
Victoria Woodhull
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Aretha Franklin
Born 1942
Achievements: Arts
2020 Inductee
Beverly Sills
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Rita Rossi Colwell
Born 1934
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Mary Cassatt
Born 1844
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Born 1811
Achievements: Arts
1986 Inductee
Anne Sullivan
Born 1866
Achievements: Education
2003 Inductee
Alice Evans
Born 1881
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Eleanor Smeal
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Martha Wright Griffiths
Born 1912
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Bella Abzug
Born 1920
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Dorothea Lange
Born 1895
Achievements: Arts
2003 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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