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!

Joan Ganz Cooney
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business, Education
1998 Inductee
Hannah Greenebaum Solomon
Born 1858
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Ella Grasso
Born 1919
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Emma Lazarus
Born 1849
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Frances E. Willard
Born 1839
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Sojourner Truth
Born c.1797
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Anna Jacobson Schwartz
Born 1915
Achievements: Business
2013 Inductee
Mary A. Hallaren
Born 1907
Achievements: Government
1996 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Amelia Bloomer
Born 1818
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Geraldine Ferraro
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Ruth Fulton Benedict
Born 1887
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Clare Boothe Luce
Born 1903
Achievements: Arts, Government, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Ethel Percy Andrus
Born 1884
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Bessie Coleman
Born 1892
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Margaret Bourke-White
Born 1904
Achievements: Arts
1990 Inductee
Emma Smith DeVoe
Born 1848
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Katherine Johnson
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
2021 Inductee
Eleanor K. Baum
Born 1940
Achievements: Education, Science
2007 Inductee
Mary Mahoney
Born 1845
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Ruth Colvin
Born 1916
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee
Anne Sullivan
Born 1866
Achievements: Education
2003 Inductee
Katharine Graham
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts, Business
2002 Inductee
Mercy Otis Warren
Born 1728
Achievements: Arts
2002 Inductee
Leontine T.C. Kelly
Born 1920
Achievements: Humanities
2000 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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