Central Square – LYNN STORIES MURAL

The Lynn Stories Mural covers a 64-by-64-foot wall of the LynnArts Building in Lynn’s Central Square. Made of acrylic paint and glass mosaic, it was a multi-year collaboration among artists David Fichter, Yetti Frenkel and Joshua C. Winer, and it includes mosaics created during residencies with students from every middle and high school in the city. The project was organized by the Lynn Museum and LynnArts.

The mural reads as a visual history of Lynn. It depicts Stone Tower in Lynn Woods, the 2,200-acre city park, and the legend of pirate treasure at Dungeon Rock, along with Hiram Marble, who dug for it. Portraits include Mary Baker Eddy, Lydia Pinkham, inventor Elihu Thomson and poet Vincent Ferrini, plus scenes of a GE worker, shoe industry activism and children exploring tide pools at Red Rock.

What to Know

• The mural was funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the New England Foundation for the Arts.
• Moccasins and a birch basket in the mural are based on items in the Peabody Essex Museum collection, representing tribes who lived here before Lynn existed.
• Stone Tower, shown in the mural, was built in 1936 for fire observation.
• It is listed among the Downtown Lynn Cultural District’s public art.