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.

Mother Marianne Cope
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Anne Dallas Dudley
Born 1876
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Anna Howard Shaw
Born 1847
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Constance Baker Motley
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Stephanie L. Kwolek
Stephanie L. Kwolek
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2003 Inductee
Willa Cather
Born 1873
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
Born 1878
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Mary Cassatt
Born 1844
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Sarah Winnemucca
Born c.1844
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Alice Waters
Born 1944
Achievements: Business, Education, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Emily Howland
Born 1827
Achievements: Humanities
2021 Inductee
Grace Hopper
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Sojourner Truth
Born c.1797
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Mary Church Terrell
Born 1863
Achievements: Government
2020 Inductee
Barbara A. Mikulski
Born 1936
Achievements: Government
2011 Inductee
Juliette Gordon Low
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Myra Bradwell
Born 1831
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Jean Kilbourne
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Anna Wessels Williams
Born 1863
Achievements: Science
2024 Inductee
Anne Hutchinson
Born 1591
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Loretta C. Ford
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1996 Inductee
Wilma L. Vaught
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Helen Keller
Born 1880
Achievements: Education
1973 Inductee
Maya Angelou
Born 1928
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee

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News & Events

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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