National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Ida Tarbell
Born 1857
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Marian Wright Edelman
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Eleanor K. Baum
Born 1940
Achievements: Education, Science
2007 Inductee
Mother Marianne Cope
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Toni Morrison
Born 1931
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2020 Inductee
Ina May Gaskin
Born 1940
Achievements: Science
2013 Inductee
Helen Stephens
Born 1918
Achievements: Athletics
1993 Inductee
Edith Nourse Rogers
Born 1881
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Martha Coffin Pelham Wright
Born 1806
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Annie Jump Cannon
Born 1863
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Mary Baker Eddy
Born 1821
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Felice N. Schwartz
Born 1925
Achievements: Business
1998 Inductee
Barbara Hillary
Born 1931
Achievements: Athletics
2020 Inductee
Mildred Cohn
Born 1913
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Abigail Adams
Born 1744
Achievements: Humanities
1976 Inductee
Anne Dallas Dudley
Born 1876
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter
Born 1926
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Kate Millett
Born 1934
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
2013 Inductee
Pearl S. Buck
Born 1892
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Emily Howell Warner
Born 1939
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Swanee Hunt
Born 1950
Achievements: Philanthropy
2007 Inductee
Faye Wattleton
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Betty Bumpers
Born 1925
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Lorraine Hansberry
Born 1930
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2017 Inductee
Emily Dickinson
Born 1830
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee

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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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