National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Ruth Colvin
Born 1916
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee
Michelle Obama
Born 1964
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2021 Inductee
Antoinette Blackwell
Born 1825
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Julie Krone
Born 1963
Achievements: Athletics
2013 Inductee
Ethel Percy Andrus
Born 1884
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Jane Fonda
Born 1937
Achievements: Arts, Government, Humanities
2019 Inductee
Loretta Ross
Born 1953
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Henrietta Szold
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Alice Evans
Born 1881
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Helen Stephens
Born 1918
Achievements: Athletics
1993 Inductee
Serena Williams
Born 1981
Achievements: Athletics, Business
2024 Inductee
Anna Jacobson Schwartz
Born 1915
Achievements: Business
2013 Inductee
Sylvia A. Earle
Born 1935
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Oprah Winfrey
Born 1954
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Louisa May Alcott
Born 1832
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Lilly Ledbetter
Born 1938
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Donna de Varona
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee
Sally Ride
Born 1951
Achievements: Science
1988 Inductee
Mary Baker Eddy
Born 1821
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Antonia Novello
Born 1944
Achievements: Government, Science
1994 Inductee
Ruth Fulton Benedict
Born 1887
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Catherine East
Born 1916
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Frances Perkins
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1982 Inductee
Chien-Shiung Wu
Born 1912
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Katherine Siva Saubel
Born 1920
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
1993 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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