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.

Pearl S. Buck
Born 1892
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Katherine Siva Saubel
Born 1920
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
1993 Inductee
Emma Smith DeVoe
Born 1848
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Helen Brooke Taussig
Born 1898
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Abby Kelley Foster
Born 1811
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Born 1823
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Betty Bumpers
Born 1925
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Ella Baker
Born 1903
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Sojourner Truth
Born c.1797
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Emma Hart Willard
Born 1787
Achievements: Education
2013 Inductee
Linda Richards
Born 1841
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Mercy Otis Warren
Born 1728
Achievements: Arts
2002 Inductee
Rosa Parks
Born 1913
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Beverly Sills
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Willa Cather
Born 1873
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Leontine T.C. Kelly
Born 1920
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Patsy Takemoto Mink
Born 1927
Achievements: Government
2003 Inductee
Jane Addams
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Mary Mahoney
Born 1845
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Charlotte Anne Bunch
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1996 Inductee
Martha Coffin Pelham Wright
Born 1806
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Janet D. Rowley
Born 1925
Achievements: Science
2017 Inductee
Mary Harriman Rumsey
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Indra Nooyi
Born 1955
Achievements: Business
2021 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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