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!

Rita Rossi Colwell
Born 1934
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Mary Putnam Jacobi
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Dorothy Height
Born 1912
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1993 Inductee
Clara Barton
Born 1821
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Felice N. Schwartz
Born 1925
Achievements: Business
1998 Inductee
Ella Baker
Born 1903
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Jacqueline Cochran
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Martha Coffin Pelham Wright
Born 1806
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Dorothy Day
Born 1897
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Bessie Smith
Born c.1894
Achievements: Arts
1984 Inductee
Mary Barret Dyer
Born 1611
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Patricia Bath
Born 1942
Achievements: Science
2024 Inductee
Eleanor K. Baum
Born 1940
Achievements: Education, Science
2007 Inductee
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Born 1959
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Sacagawea / Sacajawea / Sakakawea
Born c.1788
Achievements: Humanities
2003 Inductee
Alice Paul
Born 1885
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Judith Plaskow
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Emily Howell Warner
Born 1939
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Jean Kilbourne
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Linda Richards
Born 1841
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Lucretia Mott
Born 1793
Achievements: Humanities
1983 Inductee
Louise McManus
Born 1896
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
1988 Inductee
Diane von Furstenberg
Born 1946
Achievements: Arts, Business
2019 Inductee
Amelia Bloomer
Born 1818
Achievements: Humanities
1995 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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