National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

 

Note: The Hall will be closed for an event on 9/27/25

 

Groups welcome!

Janet Reno
Born 1938
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose
Born 1810
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
Alice Paul
Born 1885
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Elizabeth Jane Cochran
Born 1864
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Barbara Iglewski
Born 1938
Achievements: Science
2015 Inductee
Anna Howard Shaw
Born 1847
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Virginia Apgar
Born 1909
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Sojourner Truth
Born c.1797
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Katharine Graham
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts, Business
2002 Inductee
Mary Cassatt
Born 1844
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Amelia Bloomer
Born 1818
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Mildred Cohn
Born 1913
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Joy Harjo
Born 1951
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Jeannette Rankin
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Donna E. Shalala
Born 1941
Achievements: Education, Government
2011 Inductee
Abigail Adams
Born 1744
Achievements: Humanities
1976 Inductee
Ann Bancroft
Born 1955
Achievements: Education, Science
1995 Inductee
Lucretia Mott
Born 1793
Achievements: Humanities
1983 Inductee
Indra Nooyi
Born 1955
Achievements: Business
2021 Inductee
Oprah Winfrey
Born 1954
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Emily Blackwell
Born 1826
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Helen LaKelly Hunt
Born 1949
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Constance Baker Motley
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Mae Jemison
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee

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Latest Updates

2017 Induction Weekend

2017 Induction Weekend

Save the Date! The 2017 National Women's Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will take place September 15, 16 & 17, 2017 in Seneca Falls, NY. More details to come.

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News & Events

Embracing curiosity, facing the world

By Betty Bayer special to the Finger Lakes Times August’s summer light is giving way to September’s fall equinox in the Finger Lakes. It’s a great time to turn attention to all the things that make this world revolve to illuminate different — and sometimes new —...

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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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