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!

Helen Murray Free
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter
Born 1926
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Patricia Bath
Born 1942
Achievements: Science
2024 Inductee
Anne Hutchinson
Born 1591
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
Born 1813
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Eudora Welty
Born 1909
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Loretta Ross
Born 1953
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Patsy Takemoto Mink
Born 1927
Achievements: Government
2003 Inductee
Ella Grasso
Born 1919
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Emma Lazarus
Born 1849
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Wilma Mankiller
Born 1945
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Edith Wharton
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Sally Ride
Born 1951
Achievements: Science
1988 Inductee
Dorothy Height
Born 1912
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1993 Inductee
Mary Church Terrell
Born 1863
Achievements: Government
2020 Inductee
Catherine East
Born 1916
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Janet D. Rowley
Born 1925
Achievements: Science
2017 Inductee
Dorothy Harrison Eustis
Born 1886
Achievements: Philanthropy
2011 Inductee
Shirley Ann Jackson
Born 1946
Achievements: Education, Science
1998 Inductee
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1996 Inductee
Henrietta Szold
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Elizabeth Bayley Seton
Born 1774
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Peggy McIntosh
Born 1934
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Madeleine Korbel Albright
Born 1937
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Billie Jean King
Born 1943
Achievements: Athletics
1990 Inductee

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