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
Anna Howard Shaw
Born 1847
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Eleanor Roosevelt
Born 1884
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Alice Waters
Born 1944
Achievements: Business, Education, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Mary Edwards Walker
Born 1832
Achievements: Philanthropy, Science
2000 Inductee
Allie B. Latimer
Born 1931
Achievements: Government
2009 Inductee
Emily Dickinson
Born 1830
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Kate Mullany
Born 1845
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Born 1823
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Susan B. Anthony
Born 1820
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Barbara McClintock
Born 1902
Achievements: Science
1986 Inductee
Annie Dodge Wauneka
Born 1910
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Willa Cather
Born 1873
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Madeleine Korbel Albright
Born 1937
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Fannie Lou Hamer
Born 1917
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Mary Putnam Jacobi
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Belva Lockwood
Born 1830
Achievements: Government
1983 Inductee
Mary Breckinridge
Born 1881
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Jane Cunningham Croly
Born 1829
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Barbara A. Mikulski
Born 1936
Achievements: Government
2011 Inductee
Temple Grandin
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities, Science
2017 Inductee
Georgia O'Keeffe
Born 1887
Achievements: Arts
1993 Inductee
Harriet Tubman
Born c.1820
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Alice Evans
Born 1881
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Rosa Parks
Born 1913
Achievements: Humanities
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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