National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Sandra Day O'Connor
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Mary Barret Dyer
Born 0
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Althea Gibson
Born 1927
Achievements: Athletics
2001 Inductee
Victoria Woodhull
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Wilma Rudolph
Born 1940
Achievements: Athletics
1994 Inductee
Eudora Welty
Born 1909
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Donna de Varona
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee
Shirley Chisholm
Born 1924
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Sylvia A. Earle
Born 1935
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Julie Krone
Born 1963
Achievements: Athletics
2013 Inductee
Kate Stoneman
Born 1841
Achievements: Government
2009 Inductee
St. Katharine Drexel
Born 1858
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Felice N. Schwartz
Born 1925
Achievements: Business
1998 Inductee
Charlotte Anne Bunch
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1996 Inductee
Constance Baker Motley
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Margaret Sanger
Born 1879
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Geraldine Ferraro
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Elouise Cobell
Born 1945
Achievements: Business
2024 Inductee
Ella Fitzgerald
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee
Peggy McIntosh
Born 1934
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Anne Hutchinson
Born 1591
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Esther Peterson
Born 1906
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Mary McLeod Bethune
Born 1875
Achievements: Education
1973 Inductee
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Ella Grasso
Born 1919
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee

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Letter from the ED: Dreaming Big in 2022

Dear friends, The beginning of a new year is a time for reflection, renewal, and rejuvenation.  It’s also a time to DREAM BIG about how the next 12 months can transform our lives – be that a result...

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The Board and staff at the NWHF are saddened to announce that 2011 Inductee Helen Murry Free has passed away at the age of 98. She was a pioneering chemist who worked alongside her husband to...

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Wilhelmina Cole Holladay

The National Women’s Hall of Fame is saddened and heartbroken about the passing of 1996 NWHF Inductee, Wilhelmina Cole Holladay. Holladay founded and established The National Museum of Women in the...

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News & Events

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 National Women’s Hall of Fame and its mission. At our core, we exist to...

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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 last summer.   Then last Friday, I suffered an injury at home. I’ll...

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Letter from the ED: Every month is Women’s History Month

Dear Friends,  March is Women’s History Month. Black History Month (February), Asian American Heritage Month (May), Pride Month (June), Native American Heritage Month (November) are but a few of the other occasions we have to honor people and communities who have been...

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