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.

Helen Murray Free
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Geraldine Ferraro
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Barbara Iglewski
Born 1938
Achievements: Science
2015 Inductee
Mildred Cohn
Born 1913
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Born 1890
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Harriet Tubman
Born c.1820
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Flossie Wong-Staal
Born 1947
Achievements: Science
2019 Inductee
Nancy Brinker
Born 1946
Achievements: Philanthropy
2015 Inductee
Helen Stephens
Born 1918
Achievements: Athletics
1993 Inductee
Rose O'Neill
Born 1874
Achievements:
2019 Inductee
Ella Grasso
Born 1919
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Grace Hopper
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Bella Abzug
Born 1920
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Florence Wald
Born 1916
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Donna de Varona
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee
Sonia Sotomayor
Born 1954
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Gloria Yerkovich
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Ruth Colvin
Born 1916
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee
Mary Engle Pennington
Born 1872
Achievements: Science
2002 Inductee
Lucy Stone
Born 1818
Achievements: Humanities
1986 Inductee
Anne Hutchinson
Born 1591
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Wilma Mankiller
Born 1945
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Shirley Ann Jackson
Born 1946
Achievements: Education, Science
1998 Inductee
Janet D. Rowley
Born 1925
Achievements: Science
2017 Inductee
Linda G. Alvarado
Born 1951
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee

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News & Events

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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