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In 2008 and 2009 the Haverhill Mural in revitalizing downtown Haverhill. Project invited students and young adults from the city of Haverhill and professional artists to work together to create murals that illustrate local historic scenes. Making these murals helped the students to experience the historical events in a creative way and fulfilled a key educate, inspire, and empower objective: “To youth through the arts while encouraging creativity and good citizenship.” In 2007 the Haverhill Mural Project installed six murals in the Riverfront Passageway located Restaurant. Alan Pearsall, a next to the Tap local artist, was commissioned to paint six “trompe l’oeil” style scenes depicting the rich history of Haverhill to display on two historic buildings. These murals enhance the access to the Riverfront and play an important role Brochure Design: Jim Fonseca • www.compuart.net MURALS conveying their connectiontoHaverhill’s history. andvisuallyattractive while groups’ paintings arecolorful 52 Wingate Street inthedowntownhistoric district.The size reproductionofall32paintings, andisinstalledat Digitallyrendered,thebannerisalife Through theArts”. for thismuralbannertitled“Connecting theCommunity of civicandchurchgroups,created originalartwork community groupsofstudents, seniorcitizens,members Ms.EmilyBoulger,Under thedirectionoflocalartist Haverhill Haverhill DOWNTOWN WALKING TOUR WALKING DOWNTOWN

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2007-2009 SPONSORS: Thank you for your committment to beautifying our downtown and taking an active role in supporting arts and and promoting Haverhill’s cultural heritage.

been created so far, and to become a visionary been created so far, arts and cultural for the future of Haverhill’s This Mural Project advances Team community. dream that our city will become Haverhill’s a destination for enjoyment, and that we will share our local story with visitors and residents of all ages. a cherished part of the civic landscape and a great source of pride and motivation to the many residents and visitors who view them.

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The FAMOUS PERSONS D DESCRIPTION Gert Swazey (1855- Haverhill 1934) - Bareback rider with Barnum and Bailey’s Greatest Show on Earth. As a young woman from a Mural Project wealthy family, she ran away from Support The Arts home to join the circus rather than attend Bradford Academy (which Murals of local and historical significance are being later became Bradford College). Swazey is believed to be the first created in the downtown historic district to beautify, female circus performer to wear educate, and reflect Haverhill’s tights. She toured the country as a heritage and culture. Look for performer, then returned to Haverhill this sign as you walk along to live out her last years in poverty. beautiful downtown. George Washington - George Washington visited Haverhill on artist: Susan Decker artist: Susan Decker artist: Susan Decker artist: Sheila Foley November 4, 1789, as part of ENGLAND’S MICROCREAMERY Gert Swazey George Washington Rowland H. Macy John Bellairs his “triumphant circuit” of New England. During his return trip to Other Parodies. Honoring him Muralist Elizabeth Persing of Bradford found New York City, Washington chose in “stained glass” reminiscent of A inspiration for this mural in a 1930’s photograph Harrod’s Tavern on Main Street that in Canterbury Cathedral, of Tuscarora Sweets, a soda fountain and to spend the night. Washington artist Sheila Foley incorporates confectionary which was once located on Winter Street. described Haverhill as “the Bellairs’ love of Latin (this phrase This was one of the local gathering spots that inspired pleasantest village” he had ever from Virgil is on his gravestone in comic artist Bob Montana as he created the “” passed through, and lauded its Greenwood Cemetery), his alma comic strip. His main “commercial advantages and mater Notre Dame, his ubiquitous characters – Archie, beauty of location”. After he left doodles, the saint he invented, and Jughead, Veronica, Haverhill, the townspeople named the house that inspired “The House Betty, and Reggie the main meeting area Washington with a Clock in its Walls”, his first – were all based on Square. children’s book. real-life friends in Rowland H. Macy (1822- Louis B. Mayer (1885-1957) Haverhill. Montana 1919) - Founder of the R.H. Macy - Founder of the Metro-Goldwyn- first sketched them Department Store in New York Mayer motion picture studio and City, with considerable financial company, where he was in charge on a napkin in help from Haverhill’s Caleb Dustin of production and developed the artist: Cindy Prevett artist: Cindy Prevett artist: Cindy Previtt the late 1930s Hunking, following an unsuccessful Hollywood “star-system”. First while sitting at the start in the department store field in entered the motion picture business Louis B. Mayer Frank Howard Lahey Cora Chase Chocolate Shop on Haverhill at two Merrimack Street when he leased a theatre in Merrimack Street. locations. Haverhill in 1907. Cora Chase (1892-1984) joined the Metropolitan Opera Both Tuscarora’s John Bellairs (1938-1991) Frank Howard Lahey - Opera singer, born in Haverhill Company in New York in 1920 and The Chocolate - was best known for his gothic (1880-1953) - Founded the MA. Cora Chase Williamson was and signed a recording contract Shop are gone, but mysteries for young adults, all world-renowned Lahey Clinic in the outstanding musical performer with RCA Victor, after being named for Archie fans they written while he lived in Haverhill, 1926. He was president of the to come out of Haverhill. As a “America’s Greatest Coloratura.” live forever as the from 1970 until his death. His American Medical Association girl in the city’s public schools, Cora Chase retired from singing “Choklit Shoppe” on fantasy, Face in the Frost, also won in 1941, head of the Army and she displayed a voice that was after her marriage to a man she met “Riverdale’s” Main critical acclaim. Bellairs was an Navy Procurement Board in World clearly of classical quality. Her as a child at the Burnham School, Street. educator, history-lover, and wit. His War II, and was recognized for musical studies took her to Italy, New York Times writer Samuel T. Catholic upbringing was fodder numerous contributions to medical where she made her debut Williamson. artist: Elizabeth Persing for his first book,St. Fidgeta and practices and research. as a coloratura soprano. She A D

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Trompe C L’oeil Historical Window mural showcases Haverhill High School’s 1936 championship football team; an image of the Whittier Homestead; and an early painting of Mitchell’s Falls by Obed Fowler. The oval portrait artist: Alan Pearsall artist: Alan Pearsall artist: Alan Pearsall artist: Alan Pearsall artist: Alan Pearsall artist: Alan Pearsall artist: Alan Pearsall shows Mr. Moses, the father of the shoe industry of Haverhill. The woman is Maggie Images of a Haverhill from long ago: Three panels depicting Restaurant/Brew Pub and a former Antiques Market. Artist Alan Pearsall Cline, a famous Haverhill-born vaudevillian who was the pride of B the colonial period, including men sipping beverages in of West Newbury, who was captivated by Haverhill’s rich history, Haverhill’s Irish community. The window contents also include a a local tavern; and three panels showing workers toiling describes the style of these six murals as American Realism. He was vintage Haverhill Shoe advertisement. The window greeter is in shoe factories when the city was an international leader in shoe inspired by artists such as N.C. Wyeth and Diego Rivera, whom he John Greenleaf Whittier. manufacturing. Mounted in the window frames between the Tap calls “the greatest muralist ever.”