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.

Mary Baker Eddy
Born 1821
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Susan Solomon
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Born 1921
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Stephanie L. Kwolek
Stephanie L. Kwolek
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2003 Inductee
Gertrude "Trudy" Ederle
Born 1905
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee
Hannah Greenebaum Solomon
Born 1858
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Bertha Holt
Born 1904
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Lucille Ball
Born 1911
Achievements: Arts, Business
2001 Inductee
Anna Howard Shaw
Born 1847
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Sacagawea / Sacajawea / Sakakawea
Born c.1788
Achievements: Humanities
2003 Inductee
Amelia Bloomer
Born 1818
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Nannerl O. Keohane
Born 1940
Achievements: Education
1995 Inductee
Dorothy Harrison Eustis
Born 1886
Achievements: Philanthropy
2011 Inductee
Linda G. Alvarado
Born 1951
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Oveta Culp Hobby
Born 1905
Achievements: Government
1996 Inductee
Marian Anderson
Born 1897
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Edith Wharton
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Allucquére Rosanne Stone
Born 1936
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Faye Wattleton
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Born 1815
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Elizabeth Bayley Seton
Born 1774
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Wilma L. Vaught
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Michelle Obama
Born 1964
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2021 Inductee
Angela Davis
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Mary Putnam Jacobi
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 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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