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!

Martha Matilda Harper
Born 1857
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Charlotte Anne Bunch
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1996 Inductee
Joan Ganz Cooney
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business, Education
1998 Inductee
Ethel Percy Andrus
Born 1884
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Jeanne Holm
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Madam C. J. Walker
Born 1867
Achievements: Business
1993 Inductee
Aretha Franklin
Born 1942
Achievements: Arts
2020 Inductee
Florence B. Seibert
Born 1897
Achievements: Science
1990 Inductee
Faye Wattleton
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Mary "Mother" Harris Jones
Born 1837
Achievements: Humanities
1984 Inductee
Antoinette Blackwell
Born 1825
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Faye Glenn Abdellah
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Born 1959
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose
Born 1810
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
Anna Howard Shaw
Born 1847
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay
Born 1922
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1996 Inductee
Jane Addams
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Shirley Ann Jackson
Born 1946
Achievements: Education, Science
1998 Inductee
Oveta Culp Hobby
Born 1905
Achievements: Government
1996 Inductee
Margaret Sanger
Born 1879
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Serena Williams
Born 1981
Achievements: Athletics, Business
2024 Inductee
Frances Oldham Kelsey
Born 1914
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Crystal Eastman
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Patsy Takemoto Mink
Born 1927
Achievements: Government
2003 Inductee

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