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!

Catherine Filene Shouse
Born 1896
Achievements: Arts, Philanthropy
2007 Inductee
Eudora Welty
Born 1909
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Helen Murray Free
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Frances Oldham Kelsey
Born 1914
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Mary Harriman Rumsey
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Alice Hamilton
Born 1869
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Frances Wisebart Jacobs
Born 1843
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Patricia Schroeder
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
1988 Inductee
Rebecca Talbot Perkins
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2009 Inductee
Antoinette Blackwell
Born 1825
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Abigail Adams
Born 1744
Achievements: Humanities
1976 Inductee
Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose
Born 1810
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
Mae Jemison
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Beatrice A. Hicks
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Anne Sullivan
Born 1866
Achievements: Education
2003 Inductee
Bertha Holt
Born 1904
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Anne Dallas Dudley
Born 1876
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Nancy Brinker
Born 1946
Achievements: Philanthropy
2015 Inductee
Beverly Sills
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
Born 1813
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Louise Bourgeois
Born 1911
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Sally Ride
Born 1951
Achievements: Science
1988 Inductee
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay
Born 1922
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1996 Inductee

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Conversation with Great Women – Sacramento

Conversation with Great Women – Sacramento

The Hall, in association with the McGeorge School of Law at the University of the Pacific, was delighted to host a Conversation with Great Women in Sacramento, California. The Conversation featured...

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News & Events

2017 Induction Weekend

Save the Date! The 2017 National Women's Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will take place September 15, 16 & 17, 2017 in Seneca Falls, NY. More details to come.

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Inductee, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Published in New York Times

In the spirit of the Hall’s Oral History Project is an essay adapted from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s (inducted 2002) forthcoming memoir “My own words.” Her essay offers good reminder of how telling women’s history is American history and how histories, as we honor...

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