Minnesota Woman Suffrage Memorial, Memorial and art installation at State Capitol Grounds, Saint Paul, United States.
The Minnesota Woman Suffrage Memorial is a garden called Garden of Time: Landscape of Change on the State Capitol grounds in Saint Paul. It was designed by Raveevarn Choksombatchai, Martha McQuade and Ralph Nelson, and redesigned in 2004 by Roger Grothe. A trellis bears the names of 25 Minnesota suffrage leaders, and a series of aluminum signs each describes an event in the United States women's suffrage campaign.
The memorial was dedicated on August 26, 2000, coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment that gave women voting rights nationwide. It recognizes the decades of organizing and activism by Minnesota residents who contributed to this major constitutional change.
A trellis bears the names of 25 Minnesota suffrage leaders, among them Harriet Bishop, who opened the territory's first public school, and Mary Jackman Colburn, who in 1858 gave what is thought to be Minnesota's first public lecture on suffrage, titled "Rights and Wrongs of Woman."
The memorial stands on the grounds of the Minnesota State Capitol in Saint Paul, where the garden called Garden of Time: Landscape of Change holds aluminum signs recounting events of the national suffrage campaign. A trellis carries the names of 25 Minnesota leaders. The grounds are outdoors and open to walkers; the signs are read on foot.
The memorial's garden is titled Garden of Time: Landscape of Change. Its aluminum signs each describe an event in the U.S. women's suffrage campaign, and a trellis bears the names of 25 Minnesota leaders. The design by Raveevarn Choksombatchai and Ralph Nelson was chosen from 16 submissions and later redesigned by Roger Grothe in 2004.
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