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.

Judy Chicago
Born 1939
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Anne Hutchinson
Born 1591
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Margaret Bourke-White
Born 1904
Achievements: Arts
1990 Inductee
Alice Hamilton
Born 1869
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Maria Mitchell
Born 1818
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Julia Child
Born 1912
Achievements: Arts
2007 Inductee
Myra Bradwell
Born 1831
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori
Born 1896
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Abby Kelley Foster
Born 1811
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Sherry Lansing
Born 1944
Achievements: Arts, Business, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Rosalyn S. Yalow
Born 1921
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Gertrude Belle Elion
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
1991 Inductee
Georgia O'Keeffe
Born 1887
Achievements: Arts
1993 Inductee
Patricia A. Locke
Born 1928
Achievements: Education
2005 Inductee
Helen Hayes
Born 1900
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Oveta Culp Hobby
Born 1905
Achievements: Government
1996 Inductee
Elouise Cobell
Born 1945
Achievements: Business
2024 Inductee
Jane Fonda
Born 1937
Achievements: Arts, Government, Humanities
2019 Inductee
Mary Lyon
Born 1797
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee
Wilma Mankiller
Born 1945
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Antonia Novello
Born 1944
Achievements: Government, Science
1994 Inductee
Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose
Born 1810
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
Linda G. Alvarado
Born 1951
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Emily Howell Warner
Born 1939
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Serena Williams
Born 1981
Achievements: Athletics, Business
2024 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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