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!

Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Born 1823
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Antoinette Blackwell
Born 1825
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Ida Tarbell
Born 1857
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Gloria Allred
Born 1941
Achievements: Business, Government
2019 Inductee
Frances Wisebart Jacobs
Born 1843
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
Born 1878
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Kate Stoneman
Born 1841
Achievements: Government
2009 Inductee
Ann Bancroft
Born 1955
Achievements: Education, Science
1995 Inductee
Martha Matilda Harper
Born 1857
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Julie Krone
Born 1963
Achievements: Athletics
2013 Inductee
Gloria Yerkovich
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Dorothy Height
Born 1912
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1993 Inductee
Peggy McIntosh
Born 1934
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Nancy Brinker
Born 1946
Achievements: Philanthropy
2015 Inductee
Maya Y. Lin
Born 1959
Achievements: Arts
2005 Inductee
Billie Jean King
Born 1943
Achievements: Athletics
1990 Inductee
Mother Marianne Cope
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Mary Cassatt
Born 1844
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Susette La Flesche
Born 1854
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Martha Graham
Born 1894
Achievements: Arts
2015 Inductee
Eleanor Smeal
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Mary Lyon
Born 1797
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee
Barbara Jordan
Born 1936
Achievements: Government
1990 Inductee
Joan Ganz Cooney
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business, Education
1998 Inductee
Ella Grasso
Born 1919
Achievements: Government
1993 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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