WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Mindy Allen of Mindy’s Murals has completed another large project in Kansas. This time in the City of Ellis.
Allen worked for several weeks to paint a mural on the side of the City Hall building at 815 N. Jefferson. The mural depicts several important buildings and includes some history about the town.
It shows the year, 1888, when the town was incorporated. It also features Ellis’ all-woman council and mayor, one of the first to have an all-woman council in 1896. The mural also features attractions such as Walter P. Chrysler’s boyhood home, the Bukovina Society Headquarters, and the BK&E miniature train that operates at the Ellis Railroad Museum. Allen also incorporated sunflowers because they are painted all over the town’s intersections.
Allen says her next project will be in Herington. This past summer, she completed grain elevator projects in Kansas. One features wheat harvest in Inman, and the other features President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Abilene.