National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Alice Hamilton
Born 1869
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Mary Church Terrell
Born 1863
Achievements: Government
2020 Inductee
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Born 1890
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Frances E. Willard
Born 1839
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Eileen Collins
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Lucy Stone
Born 1818
Achievements: Humanities
1986 Inductee
Elizabeth Blackwell
Born 1821
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Willa Cather
Born 1873
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Sonia Sotomayor
Born 1954
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Margaret Fuller
Born 1810
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee
Victoria Jackson
Born 1955
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
Born 1850
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
Myra Bradwell
Born 1831
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Anna Howard Shaw
Born 1847
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Amelia Earhart
Born 1897
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Barbara McClintock
Born 1902
Achievements: Science
1986 Inductee
Frances Perkins
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1982 Inductee
Gwendolyn Brooks
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Sarah Winnemucca
Born c.1844
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Dorothy Harrison Eustis
Born 1886
Achievements: Philanthropy
2011 Inductee
Mary Putnam Jacobi
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Shirley Ann Jackson
Born 1946
Achievements: Education, Science
1998 Inductee
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Born 1811
Achievements: Arts
1986 Inductee
Margaret Chase Smith
Born 1897
Achievements: Government
1973 Inductee
Fanny Wright
Born 1795
Achievements: Humanities
1994 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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