National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Antoinette Blackwell
Born 1825
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Hannah Greenebaum Solomon
Born 1858
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Mary Baker Eddy
Born 1821
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Louise Slaughter
Born 1929
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Alice Paul
Born 1885
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Frances Perkins
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1982 Inductee
Rosa Parks
Born 1913
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
Born 1813
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Esther Peterson
Born 1906
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Dorothea Lange
Born 1895
Achievements: Arts
2003 Inductee
Anne Sullivan
Born 1866
Achievements: Education
2003 Inductee
Maya Y. Lin
Born 1959
Achievements: Arts
2005 Inductee
Angelina Grimké Weld
Born 1805
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Joy Harjo
Born 1951
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Helen Stephens
Born 1918
Achievements: Athletics
1993 Inductee
Pearl S. Buck
Born 1892
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Belva Lockwood
Born 1830
Achievements: Government
1983 Inductee
Donna E. Shalala
Born 1941
Achievements: Education, Government
2011 Inductee
Fannie Lou Hamer
Born 1917
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Stephanie L. Kwolek
Stephanie L. Kwolek
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2003 Inductee
Joan Ganz Cooney
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business, Education
1998 Inductee
Ida Tarbell
Born 1857
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Margaret Bourke-White
Born 1904
Achievements: Arts
1990 Inductee
Abigail Adams
Born 1744
Achievements: Humanities
1976 Inductee

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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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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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