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.

Nancy Pelosi
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
2013 Inductee
Bessie Smith
Born c.1894
Achievements: Arts
1984 Inductee
Barbara McClintock
Born 1902
Achievements: Science
1986 Inductee
Philippa Marrack
Born 1945
Achievements: Science
2015 Inductee
Judith L. Pipher
Born 1940
Achievements: Education, Science
2007 Inductee
Patricia A. Locke
Born 1928
Achievements: Education
2005 Inductee
Ida Tarbell
Born 1857
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Lucretia Mott
Born 1793
Achievements: Humanities
1983 Inductee
Aimée Mullins
Born 1976
Achievements: Arts, Athletics, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Rose O'Neill
Born 1874
Achievements:
2019 Inductee
Gloria Yerkovich
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Dorothy Height
Born 1912
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1993 Inductee
Fannie Lou Hamer
Born 1917
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Emma Hart Willard
Born 1787
Achievements: Education
2013 Inductee
Althea Gibson
Born 1927
Achievements: Athletics
2001 Inductee
Diane von Furstenberg
Born 1946
Achievements: Arts, Business
2019 Inductee
Helen Brooke Taussig
Born 1898
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Virginia Apgar
Born 1909
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Willa Cather
Born 1873
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Victoria Jackson
Born 1955
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Coretta Scott King
Born 1927
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Patricia Roberts Harris
Born 1924
Achievements: Government
2003 Inductee
Lucy Stone
Born 1818
Achievements: Humanities
1986 Inductee
Oprah Winfrey
Born 1954
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Elizabeth Hanford Dole
Born 1936
Achievements: Government, Humanities
1995 Inductee

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