Type steel Created 2000 | Location Saint Paul, Minnesota Year 2000 | |
Artist Raveevarn Choksombatchai and Ralph Nelson | ||
The Minnesota Woman Suffrage Memorial is located in the grounds of the Minnesota State Capitol in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It commemorates the women who campaigned for the state legislature to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, to give women the right to vote. Minnesota was the 15th state to ratify the amendment, doing so in 1919.
The idea for the memorial was raised by members of the Minnesota League of Women Voters and a design competition was held. The winning design was the work of Raveevarn Choksombatchai and Ralph Nelson. The State Legislature agreed in 1996 to appropriate resources for the construction of the memorial, and it was opened on 26 August, 2000. The ceremony was presided over by Lt. Gov. Mae Schunk.
The memorial consists of a garden entitled Garden of Time: Landscape of Change and features a series of aluminum signs, each one of which describes an event in the United States women's suffrage campaign. A trellis bears the names of 25 leaders of the movement in Minnesota.
In 2004 the memorial was redesigned by Roger Grothe.