National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Catherine East
Born 1916
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Emily Blackwell
Born 1826
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Edith Wharton
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Ethel Percy Andrus
Born 1884
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Kate Stoneman
Born 1841
Achievements: Government
2009 Inductee
Victoria Jackson
Born 1955
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Barbara Holdridge
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business
2001 Inductee
Harriet Williams Russell Strong
Born 1844
Achievements: Business
2001 Inductee
Emma Lazarus
Born 1849
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Annie Jump Cannon
Born 1863
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
1988 Inductee
Dorothy Day
Born 1897
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Shirley Ann Jackson
Born 1946
Achievements: Education, Science
1998 Inductee
Ruth Fulton Benedict
Born 1887
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Clare Boothe Luce
Born 1903
Achievements: Arts, Government, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Elizabeth Bayley Seton
Born 1774
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
Born 1813
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Faye Wattleton
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Anna Howard Shaw
Born 1847
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Florence Wald
Born 1916
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Susan B. Anthony
Born 1820
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Diane von Furstenberg
Born 1946
Achievements: Arts, Business
2019 Inductee
Rebecca Halstead
Born 1959
Achievements: Government
2021 Inductee
Ida Tarbell
Born 1857
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Gertrude Belle Elion
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
1991 Inductee

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