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!

Margaret Bourke-White
Born 1904
Achievements: Arts
1990 Inductee
Beverly Sills
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1996 Inductee
Mary Edwards Walker
Born 1832
Achievements: Philanthropy, Science
2000 Inductee
Mary Barret Dyer
Born 1611
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Anne Hutchinson
Born 1591
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Born 1826
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Dorothy Harrison Eustis
Born 1886
Achievements: Philanthropy
2011 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Alice Paul
Born 1885
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Elaine Roulet
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Henrietta Szold
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Coretta Scott King
Born 1927
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Carlotta Walls LaNier
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Frances E. Willard
Born 1839
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Edith Nourse Rogers
Born 1881
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori
Born 1896
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Joy Harjo
Born 1951
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Betty Bone Schiess
Born 1923
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Mary Putnam Jacobi
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Rosa Parks
Born 1913
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Emma Lazarus
Born 1849
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Maya Angelou
Born 1928
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Susan B. Anthony
Born 1820
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Jean Kilbourne
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
2015 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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