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.

Lucille Ball
Born 1911
Achievements: Arts, Business
2001 Inductee
Martha Coffin Pelham Wright
Born 1806
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Temple Grandin
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities, Science
2017 Inductee
Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias
Born 1911
Achievements: Athletics
1976 Inductee
Toni Morrison
Born 1931
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2020 Inductee
Emma Hart Willard
Born 1787
Achievements: Education
2013 Inductee
Nancy Brinker
Born 1946
Achievements: Philanthropy
2015 Inductee
Mary Harriman Rumsey
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Annie Dodge Wauneka
Born 1910
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Stephanie L. Kwolek
Stephanie L. Kwolek
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2003 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Judy Chicago
Born 1939
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Sonia Sotomayor
Born 1954
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Eudora Welty
Born 1909
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Oveta Culp Hobby
Born 1905
Achievements: Government
1996 Inductee
Marian de Forest
Born 1864
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2001 Inductee
Janet Reno
Born 1938
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1996 Inductee
Karen DeCrow
Karen DeCrow
Born 1937
Achievements: Government, Humanities
2009 Inductee
Mary McLeod Bethune
Born 1875
Achievements: Education
1973 Inductee
Flossie Wong-Staal
Born 1947
Achievements: Science
2019 Inductee
Eleanor Roosevelt
Born 1884
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Born 1815
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Carrie Chapman Catt
Born 1859
Achievements: Humanities
1982 Inductee
Barbara Holdridge
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business
2001 Inductee

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Letter from the ED: Taking Time to Absorb Hope

Margaret Sánchez turned off her TV for two days following the National Women’s Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. She wanted time to “absorb the hope.”    I can’t imagine a higher compliment for the...

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Letter from the ED: Uplifting Women’s Voices

This isn’t the start to the “In Her Words” message I intended to write. This week marks my one year anniversary with the National Women’s Hall of Fame and my first draft began with a reflection from...

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In Her Words: My Mother’s Story Is My Story

Our staff regularly hears from people who learn about the achievements of one of our Inductees and exclaim, “How did I not know about this person before now?”  Of course, we know the answer.  Women have been left out of the history books. Their contributions were not...

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