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!

Mother Marianne Cope
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Martha Wright Griffiths
Born 1912
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Willa Cather
Born 1873
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Antoinette Blackwell
Born 1825
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Jane Addams
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Ruth Patrick
Born 1907
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Alice Evans
Born 1881
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Belva Lockwood
Born 1830
Achievements: Government
1983 Inductee
Crystal Eastman
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Margaret Mead
Born 1901
Achievements: Science
1976 Inductee
Sophia Smith
Born 1796
Achievements: Education, Philanthropy
2000 Inductee
Constance Baker Motley
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Gertrude "Trudy" Ederle
Born 1905
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee
Eleanor Smeal
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Virginia Apgar
Born 1909
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Mother Mary Joseph Rogers, MM
Born 1882
Achievements: Humanities
2013 Inductee
Ruth Colvin
Born 1916
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee
Betty Bone Schiess
Born 1923
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1996 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Fannie Lou Hamer
Born 1917
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Rozanne L. Ridgway
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Patricia A. Locke
Born 1928
Achievements: Education
2005 Inductee
Florence Ellinwood Allen
Born 1884
Achievements: Government
2005 Inductee
Madam C. J. Walker
Born 1867
Achievements: Business
1993 Inductee

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Bayer Offers Tribute to Dr. Blackwell

By Hobart and William Smith Colleges on May 7th, 2018 Professor of Women’s Studies Betty Bayer joined a panel of distinguished speakers for the unveiling of the historic plaque marking the hospital...

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Hall Mourns Bernice “Bunny” Sandler

Bernice Resnick Sandler Dr. Bernice “Bunny” Sandler, the “Godmother of Title IX,” died peacefully at her home in Washington, DC, on Saturday January 5, 2019. She was 90. A high-spirited and highly effective advocate for women’s equality for more than 50 years, Dr....

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