Firefighter

Artist: Wesley Flessner

Installed: December 2020

Location: City Hall, 151 W. Church Street, near the historic Old Well House

Firefighter, by Wesley Flessner, represents Lewisville’s first paid Fire Marshal, also hired in 1927. It was in reaction to a series of fires that destroyed Main Street structures in 1895, 1912, and 1918 that prompted the City to incorporate so a fire department could be formed. Flessner’s Firefighter can be seen holding a water hose and wearing boots and a vintage-style helmet. The badge number on Firefighter’s helmet is that of Chief Timothy Tittle, Lewisville’s beloved Fire Chief who passed away in January 2020.

Lewisville Sculpture Series - Hop Into History is a series of life-sized bronze jackrabbit sculptures made into various anthropomorphic characters to portray historically significant events in Lewisville. Hop Into History includes six sculptures in five locations throughout Old Town. The City engaged the University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design to create a multi-unit, small-scale sculpture series for this public art project. The sculpture concepts and clay modeling were completed by selected student artists, and the casting and finishing work on each sculpture was completed by David and Martin Iles of Bolivar Bronze.