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.

Julie Krone
Born 1963
Achievements: Athletics
2013 Inductee
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Born 1933
Achievements: Government
2002 Inductee
Amelia Bloomer
Born 1818
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Peggy McIntosh
Born 1934
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Esther Peterson
Born 1906
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Anne Sullivan
Born 1866
Achievements: Education
2003 Inductee
Faye Wattleton
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Mary Steichen Calderone
Born 1904
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1998 Inductee
Dolores Huerta
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Maya Y. Lin
Born 1959
Achievements: Arts
2005 Inductee
Shirley Ann Jackson
Born 1946
Achievements: Education, Science
1998 Inductee
Carrie Chapman Catt
Born 1859
Achievements: Humanities
1982 Inductee
Dorothy Height
Born 1912
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1993 Inductee
Bessie Smith
Born c.1894
Achievements: Arts
1984 Inductee
Billie Holiday
Born 1915
Achievements: Arts
2011 Inductee
Muriel Siebert
Born 1928
Achievements: Business
1994 Inductee
Nettie Stevens
Born 1861
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Lilly Ledbetter
Born 1938
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Harriet Tubman
Born c.1820
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Sarah Winnemucca
Born c.1844
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Mother Marianne Cope
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Barbara Hillary
Born 1931
Achievements: Athletics
2020 Inductee
Emma Hart Willard
Born 1787
Achievements: Education
2013 Inductee
Sarah Grimké
Born 1792
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Elouise Cobell
Born 1945
Achievements: 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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