The National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls has received the 2025 Joan K. Davidson Award for Historic Preservation. The honor recognizes its decade-long effort to transform the abandoned Seneca Knitting Mill into its new museum space.
The mill, which closed in 1999, was acquired in 2006, and renovations began in 2014. With $25 million in funding, the Hall officially reopened in May 2024 with 16,000 square feet of exhibits celebrating more than 300 inductees.
State officials praised the project as a grassroots success, preserving a site central to women’s rights history while revitalizing a landmark structure at the heart of the community.
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