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!

Dorothy Day
Born 1897
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Anna Jacobson Schwartz
Born 1915
Achievements: Business
2013 Inductee
Eleanor Smeal
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Alice Hamilton
Born 1869
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Stephanie L. Kwolek
Stephanie L. Kwolek
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2003 Inductee
Rose O'Neill
Born 1874
Achievements:
2019 Inductee
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Born 1959
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Charlotte Anne Bunch
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1996 Inductee
Carol A. Mutter
Born 1945
Achievements: Government, Humanities
2017 Inductee
Shannon W. Lucid
Born 1943
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Georgia O'Keeffe
Born 1887
Achievements: Arts
1993 Inductee
Octavia E. Butler
Born 1947
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Mary Cassatt
Born 1844
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Kathrine Switzer
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2011 Inductee
Maggie Kuhn
Born 1905
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Florence Sabin
Born 1871
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Philippa Marrack
Born 1945
Achievements: Science
2015 Inductee
Muriel Siebert
Born 1928
Achievements: Business
1994 Inductee
Alice Evans
Born 1881
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Bessie Smith
Born c.1894
Achievements: Arts
1984 Inductee
Patsy Takemoto Mink
Born 1927
Achievements: Government
2003 Inductee
Sally Ride
Born 1951
Achievements: Science
1988 Inductee
Rebecca Halstead
Born 1959
Achievements: Government
2021 Inductee
Fanny Wright
Born 1795
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Dorothy Harrison Eustis
Born 1886
Achievements: Philanthropy
2011 Inductee

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