She then focused her resources and time to indulging and consuming the burgeoning art and cultural scene in Harlem. Quickly, through the patronage of A’Lelia using her mother’s bequeathed funds, celebrity, and property the family townhouse  at 108-110 W 136th, Lenox Avenue became the epicenter of the Harlem Renaissance. As the first black millionaire heiress, standing at 6 feet tall, with beautiful mahogany skin, and draped in the finest jewelry and linen A’Lelia became Harlem’s “IT” girl. Anybody who wished to be respected had to be friends with her. From the Negros of Harlem to the queers of Greenwich Village all musicians, poets, artists, and civil rights leaders flocked to her exclusive parties in hopes to be near her. Elegant dinner parties and dance celebrations were common place. Her regal presence and her uptown mansion rapidly shaped the Harlem Renaissance and brought it to its full potential. Langston Hughes called Walker “the joy goddess of Harlem’s 1920s”. He wrote in his 1940 autobiography The Big Sea, “A’Lelia Walker had an apartment that held perhaps a hundred people. She would usually issue several hundred invitations to each party. Unless you went early there was no possible way of getting in. Her parties were as crowded as the New York subway at the rush hour—entrance, lobby, steps, hallway, and apartment a milling crush of guests, with everybody seeming to enjoy the crowding”.