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.

Oveta Culp Hobby
Born 1905
Achievements: Government
1996 Inductee
Annie Oakley
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1993 Inductee
Aretha Franklin
Born 1942
Achievements: Arts
2020 Inductee
Antonia Novello
Born 1944
Achievements: Government, Science
1994 Inductee
Sylvia A. Earle
Born 1935
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Nettie Stevens
Born 1861
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Fanny Wright
Born 1795
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Bessie Smith
Born c.1894
Achievements: Arts
1984 Inductee
Florence Ellinwood Allen
Born 1884
Achievements: Government
2005 Inductee
Florence Sabin
Born 1871
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Dorothea Lange
Born 1895
Achievements: Arts
2003 Inductee
Winona LaDuke
Born 1959
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Betty Bumpers
Born 1925
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Clara Barton
Born 1821
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Ella Fitzgerald
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee
Mary Engle Pennington
Born 1872
Achievements: Science
2002 Inductee
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Born 1842
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Ruth Colvin
Born 1916
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1996 Inductee
Mary Putnam Jacobi
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Indra Nooyi
Born 1955
Achievements: Business
2021 Inductee
Lillian Wald
Born 1867
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Born 1947
Achievements: Government
2005 Inductee
Sonia Sotomayor
Born 1954
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Zora Neale Hurston
Born 1891
Achievements: Arts
1994 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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