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!

Patricia Roberts Harris
Born 1924
Achievements: Government
2003 Inductee
Eudora Welty
Born 1909
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Michelle Obama
Born 1964
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2021 Inductee
Sarah Winnemucca
Born c.1844
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Judith L. Pipher
Born 1940
Achievements: Education, Science
2007 Inductee
Ruth Colvin
Born 1916
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee
Barbara A. Mikulski
Born 1936
Achievements: Government
2011 Inductee
Rose O'Neill
Born 1874
Achievements:
2019 Inductee
Angela Davis
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Julie Krone
Born 1963
Achievements: Athletics
2013 Inductee
Shirley Chisholm
Born 1924
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Leontine T.C. Kelly
Born 1920
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Flossie Wong-Staal
Born 1947
Achievements: Science
2019 Inductee
Eleanor K. Baum
Born 1940
Achievements: Education, Science
2007 Inductee
Frances Wisebart Jacobs
Born 1843
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Maria Tallchief
Born 1925
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose
Born 1810
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
Crystal Eastman
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Elizabeth Hanford Dole
Born 1936
Achievements: Government, Humanities
1995 Inductee
Mary Edwards Walker
Born 1832
Achievements: Philanthropy, Science
2000 Inductee
Gertrude "Trudy" Ederle
Born 1905
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee
Emily Dickinson
Born 1830
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Dorothy Harrison Eustis
Born 1886
Achievements: Philanthropy
2011 Inductee
Georgia O'Keeffe
Born 1887
Achievements: Arts
1993 Inductee
Betty Ford
Born 1918
Achievements: Humanities
2013 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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