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.

Jeannette Rankin
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Betty Bumpers
Born 1925
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Helen Hayes
Born 1900
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay
Born 1922
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1996 Inductee
Gloria Allred
Born 1941
Achievements: Business, Government
2019 Inductee
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
1988 Inductee
Gloria Steinem
Born 1934
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Elouise Cobell
Born 1945
Achievements: Business
2024 Inductee
Jane Addams
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Mildred Cohn
Born 1913
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Clara Barton
Born 1821
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Ruby Bridges
Born 1954
Achievements: Humanities
2024 Inductee
Bernice Resnick Sandler
Born 1928
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2013 Inductee
Amelia Earhart
Born 1897
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Belva Lockwood
Born 1830
Achievements: Government
1983 Inductee
Stephanie L. Kwolek
Stephanie L. Kwolek
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2003 Inductee
Helen Stephens
Born 1918
Achievements: Athletics
1993 Inductee
Alice Waters
Born 1944
Achievements: Business, Education, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Julia Child
Born 1912
Achievements: Arts
2007 Inductee
Helen Murray Free
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Patsy Takemoto Mink
Born 1927
Achievements: Government
2003 Inductee
Sandra Day O'Connor
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Serena Williams
Born 1981
Achievements: Athletics, Business
2024 Inductee
Billie Jean King
Born 1943
Achievements: Athletics
1990 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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