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!

Wilma Rudolph
Born 1940
Achievements: Athletics
1994 Inductee
Billie Jean King
Born 1943
Achievements: Athletics
1990 Inductee
Edith Wharton
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Patricia Bath
Born 1942
Achievements: Science
2024 Inductee
Peggy McIntosh
Born 1934
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Blanche Stuart Scott
Born 1889
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Emma Smith DeVoe
Born 1848
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1996 Inductee
Indra Nooyi
Born 1955
Achievements: Business
2021 Inductee
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Antonia Novello
Born 1944
Achievements: Government, Science
1994 Inductee
Mary Lyon
Born 1797
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee
Kathrine Switzer
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2011 Inductee
Anne Sullivan
Born 1866
Achievements: Education
2003 Inductee
Fanny Wright
Born 1795
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Pearl S. Buck
Born 1892
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Florence Ellinwood Allen
Born 1884
Achievements: Government
2005 Inductee
Anna Jacobson Schwartz
Born 1915
Achievements: Business
2013 Inductee
Shirley Chisholm
Born 1924
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Willa Cather
Born 1873
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Allucquére Rosanne Stone
Born 1936
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Margaret Mead
Born 1901
Achievements: Science
1976 Inductee
Emma Hart Willard
Born 1787
Achievements: Education
2013 Inductee
Myra Bradwell
Born 1831
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Judith L. Pipher
Born 1940
Achievements: Education, Science
2007 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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