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Haverhill Cultural Council Grant Council Cultural Haverhill www.teamhaverhill.org Thomas Terry Thomas Club Rotary Haverhill cultural heritage. cultural Whittier Health Network Health Whittier Foundation Verizon ARTS THE SUPPORT and promoting Haverhill’s arts and and arts Haverhill’s promoting and Pentucket Kiwanis Club Kiwanis Pentucket Bank Pentucket taking an active role in supporting supporting in role active an taking Union Donor Anonymous to beautifying our downtown and and downtown our beautifying to Northeast Community Credit Community Northeast LEAP Thank you for your committment committment your for you Thank Haverhill Bank Haverhill Foundation [email protected] 2007-2009 SPONSORS: 2007-2009 Gold Leaf Fine Jewelry, Ltd. 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These murals enhance the access to to access the enhance murals These buildings. culture. and CINDY PREVITT CINDY BONNIE PORTER BONNIE PERSING ELIZABETH history of Haverhill to display on two historic historic two on display to Haverhill of history heritage unique and diverse Haverhill’s “trompe l’oeil” style scenes depicting the rich rich the depicting scenes style l’oeil” “trompe reflect and educate, beautify, to district local artist, was commissioned to paint six six paint to commissioned was artist, local historic downtown the in created being are next to the Tap Restaurant. Alan Pearsall, a a Pearsall, Alan Restaurant. Tap the to next Murals of local and historical significance significance historical and local of Murals six murals in the Riverfront Passageway located located Passageway Riverfront the in murals six Project! Mural Haverhill In 2007 the Haverhill Mural Project installed installed Project Mural Haverhill the 2007 In the of part be to you invites Haverhill Team SUSAN DECKER SUSAN SHEILA FOLEY SHEILA ALAN PEARSALL ALAN THE ARTISTS THE OUR GOAL OUR MURALS DOWNTOWN HAVERHILL WALKING MURAL TOUR – 2010 – TOUR MURAL WALKING HAVERHILL DOWNTOWN MURALS at 71 & 67 Washington St. MURALS at GEORGE’S on Washington St. Team Haverhill Ann Hasseltine Judson E (1789-1826) - attended The Bradford Academy in Bradford, Massachusetts and was the first American woman missionary to go overseas. She sailed with her husband Haverhill Adoniram Judson to India and then Burma. Ann learned the Burmese and Siamese languages, did translation, Mural Project taught Burmese girls, managed her household and cared for her husband during his 18 month imprisonment in DOWNTOWN WALKING TOUR 1824-25. Her courageous and activist artist: Alan Pearsall artist: Elizabeth Persing artist: Elizabeth Persing career provided an inspirational model for missionary women in the 19th artist: Bonnie Porter Together with the art teacher and artist Alan Pearsall, MAP century and continues to do so today. Ann H. Judson G the Nettle students painted two boxers who fought at the Shoe City Boxing club in Haverhill on Known as E F 2010 F the “Queen April 18, 1904. Billy Hill fought from 1891 to 1913 and Slipper Belfield Walcott fought from 1898 to 1909. Shoe City City”, Haverhill’s Boxing became the Haverhill Boxing Club, which is still buildings benefited in existence today. from the prosperous Hats Off to Haverhiill salutes Haverhill’s hat industry. shoe industry. The It was painted by Elizabeth Persing with the Discovery Club Eagle House was a studens at Consentino Middle School. The manufacturing 19th c. hotel during of hats in Haverhill began in the mid 1700’s and continued the gilded age through the 1930’s when Bradford HatCorp turned out when river boats 30,000 hats daily and Merrimac Hat Co. of Amesbury and trains brought opened a plant on Wingate Street. visitors to Haverhill. A carriage of weary Ms. Persing also painted the Queen Slipper City visitors arrives on a mural with the Discovery Club students at Whittier Middle sunny afternoon. School. It celebrates Haverhill’s booming shoe industry which thrived here for over 180 years. The shoe industry was the cornerstone of Haverhill’s economy, and fine ladies shoes, or slippers as they were known, were Haverhill’s specialty. artist: Alan Pearsall artist: Alan Pearsall The shoes in this mural were modeled after ones actually F Old City Hall Old Fire Station produced in Haverhill in the early 1900’s. Please consider joining Team Haverhill G or be a Sponsor for future murals. For online Downtown Walking Tour Maps (PDF), visit: www.teamhaverhill.org/downtownmurals.html. Under the direction of local artist Ms. Emily Boulger, community groups of students, senior citizens, members E For information about other great projects, please visit: www.teamhaverhill.org of civic and church groups, created original artwork for this mural banner titled “Connecting the Community Through the Arts”. Digitally rendered, the banner is a life size reproduction of all 32 paintings, and is installed at 52 Wingate Street in the downtown historic district. The groups’ paintings are colorful and visually attractive while artist: Alan Pearsall artist: Alan Pearsall conveying their connection to Haverhill’s history. Old Library The Eagle House Our thanks to the GREATER HAVERHILL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE for their support. Brochure Design: Jim Fonseca • www.compuart.net MURALS AT SURPLUS OFFICE SUPPLY / PEDRO DIEGO’S PASSAGEWAY 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 “Archie” 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.

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