page_title: Harriet G. Walker
section_title: Associations
hierarchical_section_title: Harriet G. Walker / Associations
caption_attribution_description: w:Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, w:Walker Art Center, w:Minneapolis, Minnesota
context_page_description: Harriet Granger Hulet Walker was an American hospital administrator and leader in the temperance movement.
context_section_description: Walker was president of Northwestern Hospital, now Abbott Northwestern Hospital of Allina Health, from 1862 to 1917, president of the Bethany Home now Walker Methodist Home, and worked with or was a member of the Women's Council of the City of Minneapolis, Hennepin Avenue Methodist Church, the Nonpartisan National Women's Christian Temperance Union, and the Minneapolis Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women. Walker died in New York City in 1917 and was buried in Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis. Her gravestone says "Harriet Hulet Walker" but she is called "Harriet G. Walker" by the Minnesota Historical Society as well as by Isaac Atwater.
  The Walker home on Hennepin Avenue was a public art gallery now known as the Walker Art Center, today about a mile from the house, for many years was connected to and shared a lobby with the Guthrie Theater. The family's art gallery was in one or more other locations prior to the present one. T. B. Walker commissioned galleries to be built around the house to start with to house his extensive collection. In about 1914 the house was torn down. The State Theatre in downtown Minneapolis is on the site today, renovated with a few other theaters in the area, and is part of one of the city's entertainment districts.
caption: Walker Art Center at 1750 Hennepin Avenue, adjacent to the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden in 2006
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