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.

Mary "Mother" Harris Jones
Born 1837
Achievements: Humanities
1984 Inductee
Myra Bradwell
Born 1831
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Marian Anderson
Born 1897
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Katherine Johnson
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
2021 Inductee
Frances Wisebart Jacobs
Born 1843
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Fanny Wright
Born 1795
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Sarah Winnemucca
Born c.1844
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Katharine Graham
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts, Business
2002 Inductee
Bella Abzug
Born 1920
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Sheila E. Widnall
Born 1938
Achievements: Education, Government, Science
2003 Inductee
Mary McLeod Bethune
Born 1875
Achievements: Education
1973 Inductee
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Born 1890
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Chien-Shiung Wu
Born 1912
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Judith L. Pipher
Born 1940
Achievements: Education, Science
2007 Inductee
Belva Lockwood
Born 1830
Achievements: Government
1983 Inductee
Barbara Rose Johns Powell
Born 1935
Achievements: Education, Government
2020 Inductee
Blanche Stuart Scott
Born 1889
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Patricia A. Locke
Born 1928
Achievements: Education
2005 Inductee
Lillian Wald
Born 1867
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Kate Stoneman
Born 1841
Achievements: Government
2009 Inductee
Toni Morrison
Born 1931
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2020 Inductee
Harriet Tubman
Born c.1820
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Louise Bourgeois
Born 1911
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Oveta Culp Hobby
Born 1905
Achievements: Government
1996 Inductee
Allie B. Latimer
Born 1931
Achievements: Government
2009 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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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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