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.

Bessie Smith
Born c.1894
Achievements: Arts
1984 Inductee
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
Born 1813
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay
Born 1922
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1996 Inductee
Madam C. J. Walker
Born 1867
Achievements: Business
1993 Inductee
Clare Boothe Luce
Born 1903
Achievements: Arts, Government, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Kathrine Switzer
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2011 Inductee
Ethel Percy Andrus
Born 1884
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Mary Putnam Jacobi
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Rebecca Talbot Perkins
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2009 Inductee
Maggie Kuhn
Born 1905
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Henrietta Szold
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Tenley Albright
Born 1935
Achievements: Athletics, Science
2015 Inductee
Beatrice A. Hicks
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Emma Lazarus
Born 1849
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Antonia Novello
Born 1944
Achievements: Government, Science
1994 Inductee
Bella Abzug
Born 1920
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Helen LaKelly Hunt
Born 1949
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Shannon W. Lucid
Born 1943
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Catherine Filene Shouse
Born 1896
Achievements: Arts, Philanthropy
2007 Inductee
Dorothy Harrison Eustis
Born 1886
Achievements: Philanthropy
2011 Inductee
Mary Breckinridge
Born 1881
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Harriet Williams Russell Strong
Born 1844
Achievements: Business
2001 Inductee
Martha Coffin Pelham Wright
Born 1806
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Blanche Stuart Scott
Born 1889
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee

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