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.

Anne Hutchinson
Born 1591
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Mary Putnam Jacobi
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Mildred Robbins Leet
Born 1922
Achievements: Philanthropy
2003 Inductee
Anna Howard Shaw
Born 1847
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Dolores Huerta
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Elizabeth Jane Cochran
Born 1864
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Sherry Lansing
Born 1944
Achievements: Arts, Business, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Louise Bourgeois
Born 1911
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Constance Baker Motley
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Abby Kelley Foster
Born 1811
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Louise Slaughter
Born 1929
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Donna E. Shalala
Born 1941
Achievements: Education, Government
2011 Inductee
Henrietta Szold
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Emily Howell Warner
Born 1939
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Janet Reno
Born 1938
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Marian Wright Edelman
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Florence Sabin
Born 1871
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Ruby Bridges
Born 1954
Achievements: Humanities
2024 Inductee
Felice N. Schwartz
Born 1925
Achievements: Business
1998 Inductee
Dorothea Lange
Born 1895
Achievements: Arts
2003 Inductee
Rosalyn S. Yalow
Born 1921
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Helen Murray Free
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Antonia Novello
Born 1944
Achievements: Government, Science
1994 Inductee
Willa Cather
Born 1873
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Eleanor Smeal
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
2015 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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