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.

St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
Born 1850
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
Marian Anderson
Born 1897
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Emily Howell Warner
Born 1939
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Ruth Fulton Benedict
Born 1887
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Julia Child
Born 1912
Achievements: Arts
2007 Inductee
Margaret Chase Smith
Born 1897
Achievements: Government
1973 Inductee
Kate Mullany
Born 1845
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Sarah Grimké
Born 1792
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Victoria Jackson
Born 1955
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Patricia Bath
Born 1942
Achievements: Science
2024 Inductee
Juliette Gordon Low
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Wilma Mankiller
Born 1945
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Laurie Spiegel
Born 1945
Achievements: Arts
2019 Inductee
Gertrude "Trudy" Ederle
Born 1905
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee
Anna Wessels Williams
Born 1863
Achievements: Science
2024 Inductee
Lucy Stone
Born 1818
Achievements: Humanities
1986 Inductee
Betty Bumpers
Born 1925
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Crystal Eastman
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Joan Ganz Cooney
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business, Education
1998 Inductee
Toni Morrison
Born 1931
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2020 Inductee
Dorothea Lange
Born 1895
Achievements: Arts
2003 Inductee
Ruby Bridges
Born 1954
Achievements: Humanities
2024 Inductee
Mercy Otis Warren
Born 1728
Achievements: Arts
2002 Inductee
Hannah Greenebaum Solomon
Born 1858
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Katharine Dexter McCormick
Born 1875
Achievements: Humanities, Philanthropy
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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