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!

Antonia Novello
Born 1944
Achievements: Government, Science
1994 Inductee
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay
Born 1922
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1996 Inductee
Antoinette Blackwell
Born 1825
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Matilda Raffa Cuomo
Born 1931
Achievements: Education, Government, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Madam C. J. Walker
Born 1867
Achievements: Business
1993 Inductee
Elizabeth Jane Cochran
Born 1864
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Emma Smith DeVoe
Born 1848
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Born 1815
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter
Born 1926
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Eudora Welty
Born 1909
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Gwendolyn Brooks
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Betty Ford
Born 1918
Achievements: Humanities
2013 Inductee
Laurie Spiegel
Born 1945
Achievements: Arts
2019 Inductee
Mother Mary Joseph Rogers, MM
Born 1882
Achievements: Humanities
2013 Inductee
Eleanor Roosevelt
Born 1884
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Maria Tallchief
Born 1925
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Janet Reno
Born 1938
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Shirley Chisholm
Born 1924
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Florence Sabin
Born 1871
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Elizabeth Hanford Dole
Born 1936
Achievements: Government, Humanities
1995 Inductee
Shirley Ann Jackson
Born 1946
Achievements: Education, Science
1998 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Helen Hayes
Born 1900
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Mary Harriman Rumsey
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Frances Perkins
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1982 Inductee

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