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.

Aretha Franklin
Born 1942
Achievements: Arts
2020 Inductee
Zora Neale Hurston
Born 1891
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Mary Church Terrell
Born 1863
Achievements: Government
2020 Inductee
Sheila E. Widnall
Born 1938
Achievements: Education, Government, Science
2003 Inductee
Nettie Stevens
Born 1861
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Maria Tallchief
Born 1925
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Bertha Holt
Born 1904
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Anne Hutchinson
Born 1591
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Lucille Ball
Born 1911
Achievements: Arts, Business
2001 Inductee
Nancy Pelosi
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
2013 Inductee
Maya Y. Lin
Born 1959
Achievements: Arts
2005 Inductee
Martha Graham
Born 1894
Achievements: Arts
2015 Inductee
Laurie Spiegel
Born 1945
Achievements: Arts
2019 Inductee
Rozanne L. Ridgway
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Mercy Otis Warren
Born 1728
Achievements: Arts
2002 Inductee
Mary Steichen Calderone
Born 1904
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1998 Inductee
Margaret Sanger
Born 1879
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Mary Baker Eddy
Born 1821
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Born 1921
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Born 1811
Achievements: Arts
1986 Inductee
Jeannette Rankin
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Gloria Allred
Born 1941
Achievements: Business, Government
2019 Inductee
Helen Murray Free
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Faye Glenn Abdellah
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Indra Nooyi
Born 1955
Achievements: Business
2021 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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