National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

 

Note: The Hall will be closed for an event on 9/27/25

 

Groups welcome!

Carrie Chapman Catt
Born 1859
Achievements: Humanities
1982 Inductee
Helen Brooke Taussig
Born 1898
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Beatrice A. Hicks
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Louise McManus
Born 1896
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Lorraine Hansberry
Born 1930
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2017 Inductee
Susan Kelly-Dreiss
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
2009 Inductee
Barbara Rose Johns Powell
Born 1935
Achievements: Education, Government
2020 Inductee
Angelina Grimké Weld
Born 1805
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Barbara McClintock
Born 1902
Achievements: Science
1986 Inductee
Janet D. Rowley
Born 1925
Achievements: Science
2017 Inductee
Mother Marianne Cope
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Wilma L. Vaught
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Emily Howland
Born 1827
Achievements: Humanities
2021 Inductee
Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias
Born 1911
Achievements: Athletics
1976 Inductee
Sarah Winnemucca
Born c.1844
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Linda G. Alvarado
Born 1951
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Edith Wharton
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Edith Nourse Rogers
Born 1881
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Felice N. Schwartz
Born 1925
Achievements: Business
1998 Inductee
Helen LaKelly Hunt
Born 1949
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Catherine East
Born 1916
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Alice Waters
Born 1944
Achievements: Business, Education, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Ellen Swallow Richards
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Margaret Bourke-White
Born 1904
Achievements: Arts
1990 Inductee
Louise Bourgeois
Born 1911
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee

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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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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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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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