India Crago Harris
During her tenure as president, Harris laid the cornerstone for the association's first new building, named the John Herron Art Institute, at 16th and Pennsylvania Streets.As the wife of Addison C. Harris (1840–1916), who was a prominent Indianapolis lawyer and a civic leader, she accompanied him to Vienna, Austria, during his diplomatic service as U.S.[6] Addison Harris also acquired property in rural Hamilton County, Indiana, in 1880 and later had the home remodelled and enlarged for the couple to use for entertaining and as a summer residence.During ceremonies held on November 25, 1905, she laid cornerstone for the two-story, Vonnegut and Bohn-designed building, which was named the John Herron Art Institute in honor of its major benefactor.Although the Indianapolis Museum of Art relocated to a new site, the painting remains a part of its collection, as well as her court gowns and other personal items from her residence in Vienna, Austria, from 1899 to 1901.She also left instructions to sell the property and use the proceeds to establish a trust to support a law lecture series in her husband's honor.