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!

Katherine Siva Saubel
Born 1920
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
1993 Inductee
Gloria Yerkovich
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Gwendolyn Brooks
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Born 1926
Achievements: Science
2007 Inductee
Margaret Fuller
Born 1810
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee
Bessie Smith
Born c.1894
Achievements: Arts
1984 Inductee
Dorothy Harrison Eustis
Born 1886
Achievements: Philanthropy
2011 Inductee
Julia Ward Howe
Born 1819
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Sarah Grimké
Born 1792
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Karen DeCrow
Karen DeCrow
Born 1937
Achievements: Government, Humanities
2009 Inductee
Leontine T.C. Kelly
Born 1920
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Anna Howard Shaw
Born 1847
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Lydia Moss Bradley
Born 1816
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
1998 Inductee
Helen Murray Free
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Margaret Sanger
Born 1879
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Frances E. Willard
Born 1839
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Florence Wald
Born 1916
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Ida Tarbell
Born 1857
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Mary Cassatt
Born 1844
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Carlotta Walls LaNier
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Helen Hayes
Born 1900
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Angelina Grimké Weld
Born 1805
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Elizabeth Bayley Seton
Born 1774
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Allucquére Rosanne Stone
Born 1936
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Elizabeth Jane Cochran
Born 1864
Achievements: Arts
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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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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