National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Margaret Bourke-White
Born 1904
Achievements: Arts
1990 Inductee
Alice Paul
Born 1885
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Shirley Chisholm
Born 1924
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Anna Jacobson Schwartz
Born 1915
Achievements: Business
2013 Inductee
Gloria Steinem
Born 1934
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Mary Mahoney
Born 1845
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Martha Wright Griffiths
Born 1912
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Susan Kelly-Dreiss
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
2009 Inductee
Frances E. Willard
Born 1839
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Jacqueline Cochran
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Henrietta Lacks
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2020 Inductee
Georgia O'Keeffe
Born 1887
Achievements: Arts
1993 Inductee
Crystal Eastman
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Madam C. J. Walker
Born 1867
Achievements: Business
1993 Inductee
Martha Graham
Born 1894
Achievements: Arts
2015 Inductee
Carol A. Mutter
Born 1945
Achievements: Government, Humanities
2017 Inductee
Chien-Shiung Wu
Born 1912
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Martha Matilda Harper
Born 1857
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Susette La Flesche
Born 1854
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Anne Dallas Dudley
Born 1876
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Constance Baker Motley
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Gertrude "Trudy" Ederle
Born 1905
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee
Ruth Fulton Benedict
Born 1887
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Rita Rossi Colwell
Born 1934
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Helen Stephens
Born 1918
Achievements: Athletics
1993 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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