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!

Tenley Albright
Born 1935
Achievements: Athletics, Science
2015 Inductee
Lillian Wald
Born 1867
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Ruth Fulton Benedict
Born 1887
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Frances Wisebart Jacobs
Born 1843
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Carlotta Walls LaNier
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Bertha Holt
Born 1904
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Ella Fitzgerald
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee
Mary Baker Eddy
Born 1821
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter
Born 1926
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Susette La Flesche
Born 1854
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Octavia E. Butler
Born 1947
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Margaret Bourke-White
Born 1904
Achievements: Arts
1990 Inductee
Sacagawea / Sacajawea / Sakakawea
Born c.1788
Achievements: Humanities
2003 Inductee
Bessie Smith
Born c.1894
Achievements: Arts
1984 Inductee
Clara Barton
Born 1821
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Grace Hopper
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Mary Breckinridge
Born 1881
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Donna de Varona
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee
Helen Brooke Taussig
Born 1898
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Emily Dickinson
Born 1830
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Born 1811
Achievements: Arts
1986 Inductee
Susan Solomon
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Gertrude Belle Elion
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
1991 Inductee
Barbara Hillary
Born 1931
Achievements: Athletics
2020 Inductee
Florence Wald
Born 1916
Achievements: Science
1998 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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Every story we tell, every name we enshrine, every young mind we inspire—it all starts with support from people like you.

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Give today. Because every woman’s story deserves to be heard—and remembered.

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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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