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!

Jean Kilbourne
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Victoria Jackson
Born 1955
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Mary Steichen Calderone
Born 1904
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1998 Inductee
Lillian Wald
Born 1867
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Mary Mahoney
Born 1845
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Barbara Jordan
Born 1936
Achievements: Government
1990 Inductee
Janet Reno
Born 1938
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter
Born 1926
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Mary McLeod Bethune
Born 1875
Achievements: Education
1973 Inductee
Susan B. Anthony
Born 1820
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Anne Hutchinson
Born 1591
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Helen Keller
Born 1880
Achievements: Education
1973 Inductee
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Born 1842
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Margaret Fuller
Born 1810
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee
Patsy Takemoto Mink
Born 1927
Achievements: Government
2003 Inductee
Elouise Cobell
Born 1945
Achievements: Business
2024 Inductee
Rose O'Neill
Born 1874
Achievements:
2019 Inductee
Peggy McIntosh
Born 1934
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Sonia Sotomayor
Born 1954
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Barbara McClintock
Born 1902
Achievements: Science
1986 Inductee
Dorothy Height
Born 1912
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1993 Inductee
Janet D. Rowley
Born 1925
Achievements: Science
2017 Inductee
Eudora Welty
Born 1909
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Dolores Huerta
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Loretta C. Ford
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2011 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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