Harriet Island Pavilion
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The 1941 Works Progress Administration pavilion was designed by pioneering African American architect, Clarence Wigington.
Date: June, 1979
Photographer: Elizabeth M. Hall
Image courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society
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Harriet Island
Nature made it an island, but it is an island now only in name, its back channel filled in 1950 to connect it to the shore. It takes its name from Harriet Bishop (1817 -- 1883), who came from Vermont in 1847 to become the city’s first public…