National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Anne Sullivan
Born 1866
Achievements: Education
2003 Inductee
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Born 1921
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Emily Howell Warner
Born 1939
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Madam C. J. Walker
Born 1867
Achievements: Business
1993 Inductee
Lorraine Hansberry
Born 1930
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2017 Inductee
Sarah Deer
Born 1972
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Eleanor K. Baum
Born 1940
Achievements: Education, Science
2007 Inductee
Ruth Patrick
Born 1907
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter
Born 1926
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Jeannette Rankin
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Janet Reno
Born 1938
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Lillian Wald
Born 1867
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Ida Tarbell
Born 1857
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Helen Murray Free
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Victoria Jackson
Born 1955
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Patsy Takemoto Mink
Born 1927
Achievements: Government
2003 Inductee
Pearl S. Buck
Born 1892
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias
Born 1911
Achievements: Athletics
1976 Inductee
Mercy Otis Warren
Born 1728
Achievements: Arts
2002 Inductee
Judith Plaskow
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Willa Cather
Born 1873
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Annie Jump Cannon
Born 1863
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Bella Abzug
Born 1920
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Frances Wisebart Jacobs
Born 1843
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Henrietta Lacks
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2020 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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