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!

Philippa Marrack
Born 1945
Achievements: Science
2015 Inductee
Virginia Apgar
Born 1909
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
Born 1813
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Blanche Stuart Scott
Born 1889
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Rosa Parks
Born 1913
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Dorothy Height
Born 1912
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1993 Inductee
Susan Solomon
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Born 1959
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Mercy Otis Warren
Born 1728
Achievements: Arts
2002 Inductee
Anne Sullivan
Born 1866
Achievements: Education
2003 Inductee
Victoria Woodhull
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Louise Bourgeois
Born 1911
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Jacqueline Cochran
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Eileen Collins
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Jean Kilbourne
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Betty Ford
Born 1918
Achievements: Humanities
2013 Inductee
Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias
Born 1911
Achievements: Athletics
1976 Inductee
Anna Wessels Williams
Born 1863
Achievements: Science
2024 Inductee
Octavia E. Butler
Born 1947
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Mary Putnam Jacobi
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Hannah Greenebaum Solomon
Born 1858
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Wilma Mankiller
Born 1945
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Mary A. Hallaren
Born 1907
Achievements: Government
1996 Inductee
Mary "Mother" Harris Jones
Born 1837
Achievements: Humanities
1984 Inductee
Ellen Swallow Richards
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 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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