National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

 

The National Women’s Hall of Fame will be OPEN July 5th from 1 – 6 pm and CLOSED July 5th.

Betty Ford
Born 1918
Achievements: Humanities
2013 Inductee
Emma Lazarus
Born 1849
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Mary Barret Dyer
Born 1611
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Ann Bancroft
Born 1955
Achievements: Education, Science
1995 Inductee
Elizabeth Hanford Dole
Born 1936
Achievements: Government, Humanities
1995 Inductee
Lydia Maria Child
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Jeanne Holm
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Abigail Adams
Born 1744
Achievements: Humanities
1976 Inductee
Mother Mary Joseph Rogers, MM
Born 1882
Achievements: Humanities
2013 Inductee
Susette La Flesche
Born 1854
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Mary Putnam Jacobi
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Barbara Holdridge
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business
2001 Inductee
Victoria Jackson
Born 1955
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Ruth Colvin
Born 1916
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee
Mary Steichen Calderone
Born 1904
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1998 Inductee
Patricia Schroeder
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Nannerl O. Keohane
Born 1940
Achievements: Education
1995 Inductee
Elizabeth Jane Cochran
Born 1864
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Rosalyn S. Yalow
Born 1921
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Fannie Lou Hamer
Born 1917
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Dorothy Height
Born 1912
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1993 Inductee
Frances E. Willard
Born 1839
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay
Born 1922
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1996 Inductee
Dorothy H. Andersen
Born 1901
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Helen Brooke Taussig
Born 1898
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee

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News & Events

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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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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