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.

Maya Y. Lin
Born 1959
Achievements: Arts
2005 Inductee
Rosalyn S. Yalow
Born 1921
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Bessie Smith
Born c.1894
Achievements: Arts
1984 Inductee
Margaret Fuller
Born 1810
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee
Maggie Kuhn
Born 1905
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Mary Edwards Walker
Born 1832
Achievements: Philanthropy, Science
2000 Inductee
Martha Graham
Born 1894
Achievements: Arts
2015 Inductee
Carol A. Mutter
Born 1945
Achievements: Government, Humanities
2017 Inductee
Jeanne Holm
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Judith Plaskow
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Hannah Greenebaum Solomon
Born 1858
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Patricia Schroeder
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Matilda Raffa Cuomo
Born 1931
Achievements: Education, Government, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Ida Tarbell
Born 1857
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Dorothy Day
Born 1897
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Sheila E. Widnall
Born 1938
Achievements: Education, Government, Science
2003 Inductee
Anna Jacobson Schwartz
Born 1915
Achievements: Business
2013 Inductee
Madam C. J. Walker
Born 1867
Achievements: Business
1993 Inductee
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay
Born 1922
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1996 Inductee
Sarah Grimké
Born 1792
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Emily Blackwell
Born 1826
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Emily Howell Warner
Born 1939
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Billie Holiday
Born 1915
Achievements: Arts
2011 Inductee
Betty Bone Schiess
Born 1923
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee

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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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Passing of 1998 Inductee Madeleine Albright

Passing of 1998 Inductee Madeleine Albright

The National Women’s Hall of Fame is saddened to learn of the passing of 1998 Inductee Madeleine Korbel Albright. “As a refugee whose family fled first from the Nazis and later from the Communists,...

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