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.

Anne Hutchinson
Born 1591
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Winona LaDuke
Born 1959
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Patricia Schroeder
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Myra Bradwell
Born 1831
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Lucy Stone
Born 1818
Achievements: Humanities
1986 Inductee
Wilma Mankiller
Born 1945
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Lydia Moss Bradley
Born 1816
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
1998 Inductee
Mary Putnam Jacobi
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Frances Perkins
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1982 Inductee
Helen Murray Free
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Margaret Bourke-White
Born 1904
Achievements: Arts
1990 Inductee
Kate Mullany
Born 1845
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Jane Addams
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Born 1906
Achievements: Arts, Science
1996 Inductee
Maya Y. Lin
Born 1959
Achievements: Arts
2005 Inductee
Elizabeth Jane Cochran
Born 1864
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Nettie Stevens
Born 1861
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Margaret Mead
Born 1901
Achievements: Science
1976 Inductee
Matilda Raffa Cuomo
Born 1931
Achievements: Education, Government, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Dorothy Height
Born 1912
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1993 Inductee
Hannah Greenebaum Solomon
Born 1858
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Lucretia Mott
Born 1793
Achievements: Humanities
1983 Inductee
Mary A. Hallaren
Born 1907
Achievements: Government
1996 Inductee
Alice Hamilton
Born 1869
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias
Born 1911
Achievements: Athletics
1976 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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