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!

Billie Holiday
Born 1915
Achievements: Arts
2011 Inductee
Lucretia Mott
Born 1793
Achievements: Humanities
1983 Inductee
Oveta Culp Hobby
Born 1905
Achievements: Government
1996 Inductee
Marian de Forest
Born 1864
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2001 Inductee
Sarah Deer
Born 1972
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Henrietta Szold
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Rebecca Talbot Perkins
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2009 Inductee
Mother Mary Joseph Rogers, MM
Born 1882
Achievements: Humanities
2013 Inductee
Ella Fitzgerald
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee
Ellen Swallow Richards
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Rozanne L. Ridgway
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Wilma L. Vaught
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Eleanor K. Baum
Born 1940
Achievements: Education, Science
2007 Inductee
Betty Ford
Born 1918
Achievements: Humanities
2013 Inductee
Toni Morrison
Born 1931
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2020 Inductee
Rita Rossi Colwell
Born 1934
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Esther Peterson
Born 1906
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Patricia Roberts Harris
Born 1924
Achievements: Government
2003 Inductee
Janet Reno
Born 1938
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Susette La Flesche
Born 1854
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Lucy Stone
Born 1818
Achievements: Humanities
1986 Inductee
Eileen Collins
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Louisa May Alcott
Born 1832
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Mary Harriman Rumsey
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Mary Barret Dyer
Born 1611
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee

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