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!

Dorothy Height
Born 1912
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1993 Inductee
Frances Wisebart Jacobs
Born 1843
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Mae Jemison
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Anna Howard Shaw
Born 1847
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Born 1815
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Wilma Mankiller
Born 1945
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Maya Angelou
Born 1928
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Susan B. Anthony
Born 1820
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Emma Hart Willard
Born 1787
Achievements: Education
2013 Inductee
Blanche Stuart Scott
Born 1889
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Mary "Mother" Harris Jones
Born 1837
Achievements: Humanities
1984 Inductee
Angelina Grimké Weld
Born 1805
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Margaret Chase Smith
Born 1897
Achievements: Government
1973 Inductee
Octavia E. Butler
Born 1947
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Alice Paul
Born 1885
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Althea Gibson
Born 1927
Achievements: Athletics
2001 Inductee
Gloria Yerkovich
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Faye Glenn Abdellah
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Janet D. Rowley
Born 1925
Achievements: Science
2017 Inductee
Dolores Huerta
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Annie Oakley
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1993 Inductee
Coretta Scott King
Born 1927
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Nannerl O. Keohane
Born 1940
Achievements: Education
1995 Inductee
Gwendolyn Brooks
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Barbara Holdridge
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business
2001 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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