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.

Dorothy Harrison Eustis
Born 1886
Achievements: Philanthropy
2011 Inductee
Virginia Apgar
Born 1909
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Loretta C. Ford
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Maya Y. Lin
Born 1959
Achievements: Arts
2005 Inductee
Nettie Stevens
Born 1861
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
1988 Inductee
Dorothy Day
Born 1897
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Abby Kelley Foster
Born 1811
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Joy Harjo
Born 1951
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Bertha Holt
Born 1904
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Alice Waters
Born 1944
Achievements: Business, Education, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Wilma L. Vaught
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Juliette Gordon Low
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Emma Lazarus
Born 1849
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Katharine Graham
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts, Business
2002 Inductee
Carrie Chapman Catt
Born 1859
Achievements: Humanities
1982 Inductee
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Born 1826
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Anne Dallas Dudley
Born 1876
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Temple Grandin
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities, Science
2017 Inductee
Jane Fonda
Born 1937
Achievements: Arts, Government, Humanities
2019 Inductee
Toni Morrison
Born 1931
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2020 Inductee
Sarah Winnemucca
Born c.1844
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Helen Murray Free
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Frances Perkins
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1982 Inductee

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