A new mural will be unveiled in Bristol Borough this week.
The borough’s latest mural will be on a building owned by Harris Comfort at 142 Otter Street that originally was a three-story brownstone schoolhouse that has since been converted to use as a warehouse.
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A public unveiling will take place Wednesday at 10:45 a.m. There will be light refreshments served. The event will include remarks by the artist and building owner David Harris, a history of the school will be provided by Harold Mitchener from the Bristol Cultural and Historical Foundation, there will be a presentation by kids from Snyder-Girotti Elementary School, and comments by Aliyah Stanger, who is the Southeast Regional Director of the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development.
Lower Bucks County artist Jean-Marc Dubus worked on the mural that reflects the building’s heritage.
Civic organization Bristol Borough: Raising the Bar led the mural creation. Harris Comfort and Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development funded the mural.
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“The project presents the perfect opportunity to advance three of our goals: promoting the arts, telling a story of Bristol’s rich and diverse history, and preserving or restoring aspects of our oldest commercial buildings,” said Bill Pezza, president of Raising the Bar.
“While it was not structurally or financially feasible to return the entire building to its original design, we were excited by the potential to tell the story of the building’s original use and demonstrate that art and history can live in harmony with the commercial/industrial nature of that part of the Otter Street block,” Pezza added. “The project would not have been possible without the civic mindedness, generosity, and cooperation of the Harris Comfort team.”
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Bristol Borough’s growing public art scene includes a mural at Penn Community Bank at the Mill Street Parking Lot, mural on Old Route 13, one on Market Street, and the most recent at the William Penn Bank branch on Otter Street.
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