National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Frances Perkins
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1982 Inductee
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay
Born 1922
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1996 Inductee
Helen LaKelly Hunt
Born 1949
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Louise Slaughter
Born 1929
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Margaret Bourke-White
Born 1904
Achievements: Arts
1990 Inductee
Emma Smith DeVoe
Born 1848
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Lucretia Mott
Born 1793
Achievements: Humanities
1983 Inductee
Elaine Roulet
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Diane von Furstenberg
Born 1946
Achievements: Arts, Business
2019 Inductee
Tenley Albright
Born 1935
Achievements: Athletics, Science
2015 Inductee
Emily Howland
Born 1827
Achievements: Humanities
2021 Inductee
Sylvia A. Earle
Born 1935
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Elizabeth Hanford Dole
Born 1936
Achievements: Government, Humanities
1995 Inductee
Frances Wisebart Jacobs
Born 1843
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Alice Evans
Born 1881
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Emma Hart Willard
Born 1787
Achievements: Education
2013 Inductee
Joan Ganz Cooney
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business, Education
1998 Inductee
Anne Sullivan
Born 1866
Achievements: Education
2003 Inductee
Esther Peterson
Born 1906
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Katharine Dexter McCormick
Born 1875
Achievements: Humanities, Philanthropy
1998 Inductee
Ella Grasso
Born 1919
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Sarah Deer
Born 1972
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Abigail Adams
Born 1744
Achievements: Humanities
1976 Inductee
Dorothea Lange
Born 1895
Achievements: Arts
2003 Inductee
Louise McManus
Born 1896
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee

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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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