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.

Karen DeCrow
Karen DeCrow
Born 1937
Achievements: Government, Humanities
2009 Inductee
Emma Hart Willard
Born 1787
Achievements: Education
2013 Inductee
Nettie Stevens
Born 1861
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Frances Oldham Kelsey
Born 1914
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Judith L. Pipher
Born 1940
Achievements: Education, Science
2007 Inductee
Rebecca Halstead
Born 1959
Achievements: Government
2021 Inductee
Margaret Bourke-White
Born 1904
Achievements: Arts
1990 Inductee
Eleanor Smeal
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Frances E. Willard
Born 1839
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Abigail Adams
Born 1744
Achievements: Humanities
1976 Inductee
Patricia Schroeder
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Loretta C. Ford
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Julia Child
Born 1912
Achievements: Arts
2007 Inductee
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1996 Inductee
Nannerl O. Keohane
Born 1940
Achievements: Education
1995 Inductee
Winona LaDuke
Born 1959
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Eudora Welty
Born 1909
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Katherine Johnson
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
2021 Inductee
Louisa May Alcott
Born 1832
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Maria Mitchell
Born 1818
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Mia Hamm
Born 1972
Achievements: Athletics
2021 Inductee
Donna de Varona
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee
Susan B. Anthony
Born 1820
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Rose O'Neill
Born 1874
Achievements:
2019 Inductee
Bella Abzug
Born 1920
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee

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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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