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.

Martha Wright Griffiths
Born 1912
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Ellen Swallow Richards
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Muriel Siebert
Born 1928
Achievements: Business
1994 Inductee
Annie Dodge Wauneka
Born 1910
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Mary Burnett Talbert
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Betty Friedan
Born 1921
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Flossie Wong-Staal
Born 1947
Achievements: Science
2019 Inductee
Stephanie L. Kwolek
Stephanie L. Kwolek
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2003 Inductee
Sarah Deer
Born 1972
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Edith Nourse Rogers
Born 1881
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Born 1906
Achievements: Arts, Science
1996 Inductee
Charlotte Anne Bunch
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1996 Inductee
Lilly Ledbetter
Born 1938
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Emma Hart Willard
Born 1787
Achievements: Education
2013 Inductee
Eleanor Smeal
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Matilda Raffa Cuomo
Born 1931
Achievements: Education, Government, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Billie Holiday
Born 1915
Achievements: Arts
2011 Inductee
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Born 1842
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Ella Baker
Born 1903
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Jacqueline Cochran
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Diane von Furstenberg
Born 1946
Achievements: Arts, Business
2019 Inductee
Mary "Mother" Harris Jones
Born 1837
Achievements: Humanities
1984 Inductee
Catherine East
Born 1916
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Gloria Steinem
Born 1934
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Carlotta Walls LaNier
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
2015 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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