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!

Eleanor K. Baum
Born 1940
Achievements: Education, Science
2007 Inductee
Myra Bradwell
Born 1831
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Louise Slaughter
Born 1929
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Mary Burnett Talbert
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Sandra Day O'Connor
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Helen Brooke Taussig
Born 1898
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Lillian Wald
Born 1867
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Patricia A. Locke
Born 1928
Achievements: Education
2005 Inductee
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Born 1811
Achievements: Arts
1986 Inductee
Gwendolyn Brooks
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Blanche Stuart Scott
Born 1889
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Marian Anderson
Born 1897
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Susan Solomon
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Betty Bumpers
Born 1925
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Patsy Takemoto Mink
Born 1927
Achievements: Government
2003 Inductee
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Born 1926
Achievements: Science
2007 Inductee
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Dolores Huerta
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Zora Neale Hurston
Born 1891
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Mary Mahoney
Born 1845
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Martha Coffin Pelham Wright
Born 1806
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Jeannette Rankin
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Althea Gibson
Born 1927
Achievements: Athletics
2001 Inductee
Wilma Rudolph
Born 1940
Achievements: Athletics
1994 Inductee
Patricia Schroeder
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
1995 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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