National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Willa Cather
Born 1873
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Ruth Patrick
Born 1907
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Frances Oldham Kelsey
Born 1914
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Jane Fonda
Born 1937
Achievements: Arts, Government, Humanities
2019 Inductee
Helen Brooke Taussig
Born 1898
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Susan Solomon
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Billie Jean King
Born 1943
Achievements: Athletics
1990 Inductee
Emily Howell Warner
Born 1939
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Elaine Roulet
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Mary A. Hallaren
Born 1907
Achievements: Government
1996 Inductee
Rozanne L. Ridgway
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Zora Neale Hurston
Born 1891
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Stephanie L. Kwolek
Stephanie L. Kwolek
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2003 Inductee
Margaret Bourke-White
Born 1904
Achievements: Arts
1990 Inductee
Dolores Huerta
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Florence Wald
Born 1916
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Louise Slaughter
Born 1929
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Linda G. Alvarado
Born 1951
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Shirley Ann Jackson
Born 1946
Achievements: Education, Science
1998 Inductee
Ann Bancroft
Born 1955
Achievements: Education, Science
1995 Inductee
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
Born 1878
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Henrietta Lacks
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2020 Inductee
Kate Millett
Born 1934
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
2013 Inductee
Sacagawea / Sacajawea / Sakakawea
Born c.1788
Achievements: Humanities
2003 Inductee
Diane von Furstenberg
Born 1946
Achievements: Arts, Business
2019 Inductee

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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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