National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Anne Sullivan
Born 1866
Achievements: Education
2003 Inductee
Dorothea Lange
Born 1895
Achievements: Arts
2003 Inductee
Henrietta Lacks
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2020 Inductee
Faye Wattleton
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Nettie Stevens
Born 1861
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Gwendolyn Brooks
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Mae Jemison
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Sherry Lansing
Born 1944
Achievements: Arts, Business, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Karen DeCrow
Karen DeCrow
Born 1937
Achievements: Government, Humanities
2009 Inductee
Amelia Earhart
Born 1897
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Lydia Maria Child
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Sophia Smith
Born 1796
Achievements: Education, Philanthropy
2000 Inductee
Bessie Coleman
Born 1892
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Anne Dallas Dudley
Born 1876
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Florence Ellinwood Allen
Born 1884
Achievements: Government
2005 Inductee
Mary Putnam Jacobi
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Ellen Swallow Richards
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Barbara Jordan
Born 1936
Achievements: Government
1990 Inductee
Maria Mitchell
Born 1818
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Ethel Percy Andrus
Born 1884
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Judith Plaskow
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Muriel Siebert
Born 1928
Achievements: Business
1994 Inductee
Eleanor Roosevelt
Born 1884
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Emily Howell Warner
Born 1939
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Elizabeth Jane Cochran
Born 1864
Achievements: Arts
1998 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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