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.

Elizabeth Hanford Dole
Born 1936
Achievements: Government, Humanities
1995 Inductee
Catherine East
Born 1916
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Martha Graham
Born 1894
Achievements: Arts
2015 Inductee
Mae Jemison
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Maggie Kuhn
Born 1905
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Zora Neale Hurston
Born 1891
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Margaret Sanger
Born 1879
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Lydia Maria Child
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Sacagawea / Sacajawea / Sakakawea
Born c.1788
Achievements: Humanities
2003 Inductee
Matilda Raffa Cuomo
Born 1931
Achievements: Education, Government, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Janet D. Rowley
Born 1925
Achievements: Science
2017 Inductee
Nancy Brinker
Born 1946
Achievements: Philanthropy
2015 Inductee
Rose O'Neill
Born 1874
Achievements:
2019 Inductee
Esther Peterson
Born 1906
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Gloria Yerkovich
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Ethel Percy Andrus
Born 1884
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Jeannette Rankin
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Karen DeCrow
Karen DeCrow
Born 1937
Achievements: Government, Humanities
2009 Inductee
Tenley Albright
Born 1935
Achievements: Athletics, Science
2015 Inductee
Frances Wisebart Jacobs
Born 1843
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Barbara Rose Johns Powell
Born 1935
Achievements: Education, Government
2020 Inductee
Flossie Wong-Staal
Born 1947
Achievements: Science
2019 Inductee
Ida Tarbell
Born 1857
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Julia Ward Howe
Born 1819
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Helen LaKelly Hunt
Born 1949
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 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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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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