National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

 

Note: The Hall will be closed for an event on 9/27/25

 

Groups welcome!

Nettie Stevens
Born 1861
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Toni Morrison
Born 1931
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2020 Inductee
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Born 1890
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Ella Baker
Born 1903
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Linda Richards
Born 1841
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Faye Glenn Abdellah
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Zora Neale Hurston
Born 1891
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Carrie Chapman Catt
Born 1859
Achievements: Humanities
1982 Inductee
Ella Grasso
Born 1919
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Sylvia A. Earle
Born 1935
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Nancy Brinker
Born 1946
Achievements: Philanthropy
2015 Inductee
Jacqueline Cochran
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Susan Kelly-Dreiss
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
2009 Inductee
Mary Barret Dyer
Born 1611
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Shirley Ann Jackson
Born 1946
Achievements: Education, Science
1998 Inductee
Mother Marianne Cope
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Victoria Woodhull
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Born 1811
Achievements: Arts
1986 Inductee
Margaret Bourke-White
Born 1904
Achievements: Arts
1990 Inductee
Mary Harriman Rumsey
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Myra Bradwell
Born 1831
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Margaret Mead
Born 1901
Achievements: Science
1976 Inductee
Ruth Fulton Benedict
Born 1887
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Frances E. Willard
Born 1839
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Helen Hayes
Born 1900
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee

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Latest Updates

2017 Induction Weekend

2017 Induction Weekend

Save the Date! The 2017 National Women's Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will take place September 15, 16 & 17, 2017 in Seneca Falls, NY. More details to come.

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News & Events

Embracing curiosity, facing the world

By Betty Bayer special to the Finger Lakes Times August’s summer light is giving way to September’s fall equinox in the Finger Lakes. It’s a great time to turn attention to all the things that make this world revolve to illuminate different — and sometimes new —...

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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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