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.

Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter
Born 1926
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Rachel Carson
Born 1907
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Linda G. Alvarado
Born 1951
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Carlotta Walls LaNier
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Rebecca Halstead
Born 1959
Achievements: Government
2021 Inductee
Esther Peterson
Born 1906
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Antonia Novello
Born 1944
Achievements: Government, Science
1994 Inductee
Sarah Deer
Born 1972
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Diane von Furstenberg
Born 1946
Achievements: Arts, Business
2019 Inductee
Mary Cassatt
Born 1844
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Susan Solomon
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Kate Mullany
Born 1845
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Eleanor Smeal
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Mildred Cohn
Born 1913
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Joy Harjo
Born 1951
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Elaine Roulet
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Sandra Day O'Connor
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Mae Jemison
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Alice Evans
Born 1881
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Patsy Takemoto Mink
Born 1927
Achievements: Government
2003 Inductee
Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose
Born 1810
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
Angela Davis
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Philippa Marrack
Born 1945
Achievements: Science
2015 Inductee
Wilma Rudolph
Born 1940
Achievements: Athletics
1994 Inductee
Mary "Mother" Harris Jones
Born 1837
Achievements: Humanities
1984 Inductee

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News & Events

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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