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.

Helen LaKelly Hunt
Born 1949
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Emma Smith DeVoe
Born 1848
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Rebecca Talbot Perkins
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2009 Inductee
Amelia Earhart
Born 1897
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Lydia Maria Child
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Mary McLeod Bethune
Born 1875
Achievements: Education
1973 Inductee
Ruth Colvin
Born 1916
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee
Felice N. Schwartz
Born 1925
Achievements: Business
1998 Inductee
Ruth Fulton Benedict
Born 1887
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Dolores Huerta
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Helen Keller
Born 1880
Achievements: Education
1973 Inductee
Indra Nooyi
Born 1955
Achievements: Business
2021 Inductee
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Born 1906
Achievements: Arts, Science
1996 Inductee
Florence Wald
Born 1916
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Barbara Holdridge
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business
2001 Inductee
Temple Grandin
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities, Science
2017 Inductee
Georgia O'Keeffe
Born 1887
Achievements: Arts
1993 Inductee
Chien-Shiung Wu
Born 1912
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Katharine Graham
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts, Business
2002 Inductee
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
Born 1878
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Carrie Chapman Catt
Born 1859
Achievements: Humanities
1982 Inductee
Mary Putnam Jacobi
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Eudora Welty
Born 1909
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Donna E. Shalala
Born 1941
Achievements: Education, Government
2011 Inductee
Lucy Stone
Born 1818
Achievements: Humanities
1986 Inductee

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News & Events

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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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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