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The mural in need of restoration is in Cedar Rapids City Hall. Image by Iowahwyman. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, wants to restore City Hall mural

Tom Hoepf
Tom Hoepf
The mural in need of restoration is in Cedar Rapids City Hall. Image by Iowahwyman. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
The mural in need of restoration is in Cedar Rapids City Hall. Image by Iowahwyman. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) – The city of Cedar Rapids wants to restore a Depression-era mural that has been hidden under old paint on a wall in what is now the City Hall council chamber.

The Gazette reports the mural had been painted by an artist or artists supported by the Works Progress Administration, a back-to-work construct of the Franklin Roosevelt administration in the 1930s.

The council chamber was once a courtroom in the former federal courthouse.

A mural on the room’s north wall was uncovered a year ago. A $50,000 grant being sought from the National Endowment for the Arts would be spent on restoring the mural on the room’s south wall.

The murals were painted over, uncovered, and then painted over again in the 1960s.

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Information from: The Gazette, http://www.gazetteonline.com/

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The mural in need of restoration is in Cedar Rapids City Hall. Image by Iowahwyman. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
The mural in need of restoration is in Cedar Rapids City Hall. Image by Iowahwyman. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.