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!

Eudora Welty
Born 1909
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Margaret Chase Smith
Born 1897
Achievements: Government
1973 Inductee
Rebecca Talbot Perkins
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2009 Inductee
Kathrine Switzer
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2011 Inductee
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay
Born 1922
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1996 Inductee
Jane Addams
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Mildred Robbins Leet
Born 1922
Achievements: Philanthropy
2003 Inductee
Flossie Wong-Staal
Born 1947
Achievements: Science
2019 Inductee
Nicole Malachowski
Born 1974
Achievements: Government
2019 Inductee
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Barbara McClintock
Born 1902
Achievements: Science
1986 Inductee
Lorraine Hansberry
Born 1930
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2017 Inductee
Gloria Steinem
Born 1934
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Mary Engle Pennington
Born 1872
Achievements: Science
2002 Inductee
Louise McManus
Born 1896
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Tenley Albright
Born 1935
Achievements: Athletics, Science
2015 Inductee
Nancy Pelosi
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
2013 Inductee
Billie Holiday
Born 1915
Achievements: Arts
2011 Inductee
Rozanne L. Ridgway
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Carol A. Mutter
Born 1945
Achievements: Government, Humanities
2017 Inductee
Loretta C. Ford
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Anne Hutchinson
Born 1591
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Linda Richards
Born 1841
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Zora Neale Hurston
Born 1891
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Helen Brooke Taussig
Born 1898
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee

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