National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

 

The National Women’s Hall of Fame will be OPEN July 5th from 1 – 6 pm and CLOSED July 5th.

Aretha Franklin
Born 1942
Achievements: Arts
2020 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Betty Bone Schiess
Born 1923
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Zora Neale Hurston
Born 1891
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Mildred Cohn
Born 1913
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Antoinette Blackwell
Born 1825
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Sojourner Truth
Born c.1797
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Myra Bradwell
Born 1831
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Florence Ellinwood Allen
Born 1884
Achievements: Government
2005 Inductee
Gwendolyn Brooks
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Patricia A. Locke
Born 1928
Achievements: Education
2005 Inductee
Henrietta Szold
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Louise Slaughter
Born 1929
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Carrie Chapman Catt
Born 1859
Achievements: Humanities
1982 Inductee
Abigail Adams
Born 1744
Achievements: Humanities
1976 Inductee
Sarah Deer
Born 1972
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Sheila E. Widnall
Born 1938
Achievements: Education, Government, Science
2003 Inductee
Anne Sullivan
Born 1866
Achievements: Education
2003 Inductee
Susan Solomon
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Edith Wharton
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Born 1823
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Annie Oakley
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1993 Inductee
Felice N. Schwartz
Born 1925
Achievements: Business
1998 Inductee
Patsy Takemoto Mink
Born 1927
Achievements: Government
2003 Inductee
Ruby Bridges
Born 1954
Achievements: Humanities
2024 Inductee

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Ginny Ryan: The Keeper of the Flame

A third grade assignment to tell the story of someone else’s life was all it took to hook Ginny Ryan on reporting. At Cardinal Mooney High School and at Buffalo State College, she wrote for the...

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News & Events

National Women’s Hall of Fame appoints Executive Director

National Women’s Hall of Fame appoints Executive Director in advance of 2021 Induction The National Women’s Hall of Fame is pleased to announce Jennifer Gabriel as Executive Director. This successful hire concludes the Hall’s six-month national search for this...

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The Board and staff at the NWHF are saddened to announce that 2011 Inductee Helen Murry Free has passed away at the age of 98. She was a pioneering chemist who worked alongside her husband to revolutionize diagnostic testing in the laboratory and at home. Together,...

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Wilhelmina Cole Holladay

The National Women’s Hall of Fame is saddened and heartbroken about the passing of 1996 NWHF Inductee, Wilhelmina Cole Holladay. Holladay founded and established The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA). Opened in 1987, the museum promotes a greater awareness...

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