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.

Willa Cather
Born 1873
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Eudora Welty
Born 1909
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Born 1906
Achievements: Arts, Science
1996 Inductee
Clara Barton
Born 1821
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Mary Edwards Walker
Born 1832
Achievements: Philanthropy, Science
2000 Inductee
Eleanor Roosevelt
Born 1884
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Carrie Chapman Catt
Born 1859
Achievements: Humanities
1982 Inductee
Ann Bancroft
Born 1955
Achievements: Education, Science
1995 Inductee
Peggy McIntosh
Born 1934
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Alice Paul
Born 1885
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Helen Keller
Born 1880
Achievements: Education
1973 Inductee
Jane Fonda
Born 1937
Achievements: Arts, Government, Humanities
2019 Inductee
Elizabeth Bayley Seton
Born 1774
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Linda Richards
Born 1841
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Nancy Brinker
Born 1946
Achievements: Philanthropy
2015 Inductee
Winona LaDuke
Born 1959
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Grace Hopper
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Susan B. Anthony
Born 1820
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Ella Grasso
Born 1919
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Alice Evans
Born 1881
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Antonia Novello
Born 1944
Achievements: Government, Science
1994 Inductee
Eleanor Smeal
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Henrietta Szold
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Joan Ganz Cooney
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business, Education
1998 Inductee
Mary Lyon
Born 1797
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee

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News & Events

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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