Central Square, Lynn, MA
This was a multi-year collaboration between three artists, and includes mosaics created in residencies with students from all of the city’s middle and high schools. Funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the New England Foundation for the Arts. Painted on the LynnArts Building, Lynn, MA.
Photo courtesy of Ted Dillard / The Brickyard Collaborative
Lynn Stories Mural, LynnArts Building
25 Exchange Street, Lynn, MA
Acrylic and glass mosaic 64’x 64′
Team of: David Fichter, Yetti Frenkel, Joshua C. Winer
David Fichter
Yetti Frenkel
Joshua C. Winer
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Stone Tower in Lynn Woods
Stone Tower was built in 1936 for fire observation.
Portrait of Cyrus Tracy
Cyrus Tracy was a self trained botanist who formed the Explorer's circle, a group of naturalists who were instrumental in preserving Lynn Woods for future generations.
Barred owl in Lynn Woods
Lynn Woods is a 2200 acre municipal park that was created to protect the water supply for the city.
Legend of Pirate Treasure at Dungeon Rock
Dungeon Rock is a natural cave in Lynn Woods. Pirates are rumored to have buried treasure there.
Portrait of Mary Baker Eddy
Mary Baker Eddy discovered Christian Science while living in Lynn.
Portrait of Lydia Pinkham
Lydia Pinkham invented and marketed a medicine to aid women with menstrual and menopausal issues. It contained a mixture of alcohol and herbs.
Portrait of Hiram Marble in Dungeon Rock Cave
Hiram Marble was a real person who believed in the legend of pirate treasure buried in Lynn Woods. He purchased the land from the city and began digging in the cave. He funded his search by selling tickets to the public to tour the cave.
Indian Moccasins and Birch Wood Basket
These items come from the collection of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem and represent the tribes who were here before Lynn existed.
Portrait of Elihu Thomson
Elihu Thomson was an inventor and engineer who formed the General Electric Company (GE).
GE Worker assembling a jet engine
Portrait of Vincent Ferrini
Vincent Ferrini was the poet Laureate of Gloucester, MA. He grew up in Lynn and worked in shoe factories and at GE.
Charles H. Woodbury
One of a group of artists known as the Lynn Beach Painters.
Lynn Beach and Red Rock
Children explore tide pools on a field trip to Red Rock, a hand holds a large Moon Snail, sandpipers, sneakers that are companion pieces to the moccasins on the left side of the mural, shells, and a beach rose.
Alonzo Lewis
A man of many talents; a writer, surveyor, editor, and publisher. He was also an ardent abolitionist, historian and a poet.
Worker's rights rally
Featuring a woman speaker advocating for the rights of shoe industry workers.
Jan Ernst Matzeliger
An inventor who significantly changed the shoe industry by creating the lasting machine. This process joined the sole of the shoe to the upper portion. His health was ruined in the pursuit of perfecting his model for the machine, and he died of tuberculosis just shy of his 37th birthday.
The Olympia Theater
A grand cinema in downtown Lynn.
Harry Agganis
The Golden Greek played for the Boston Red Sox as a first baseman from 1954 to 1955.
General Electric Lynn Workers Strike at GE, 1946
Immigrant family at dinner
Lynn Fire of 1889
In 1981 there was another great fire that destroyed many buildings in the area near where the North Shore Community College now stands.
Lynn Shoemaker's Strike of 1860
Cottage industry shoemakers
Worker using Jan Matzeliger's lasting machine
Bells of Lynn by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Factories by Vincent Ferrini
Maria Mitchell
An astronomer who discovered a comet in 1847.
Frederick Douglass
An escaped slave who made his home in Lynn in the 1840's and wrote his famous book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave while living in the city.
The Hutchinson Family Singers
A popular singing group who promoted abolitionism, women's rights, temperance, and worker's rights.
High Rock Tower
Jesse Hutchinson built the tower as an observatory. It is still used for that purpose today.
