Elm Street Building Art

Take a drive down historic Elm Street, the main street in East Waco, and you'll find a number of imaginative and brightly colored murals and paintings adorning buildings, some created by local school children, others painted by unknown artists. Here's what photographer Randy Fiedler found when he visited Elm Street today.

When you turn onto Elm Street from Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, one of the first buildings you see is the old Waco Marble and Granite Works building at 105 Elm:



The building features four music-themed artworks:













Just up Elm a block or two is this unoccupied building:



It features three paintings that pay tribute to black cowboys, who passed through Waco on the Chisholm Trail:










Other themes are worked out in paintings further north up Elm Street.


A nice view of some big cats.


One of the murals painted by students from J.H. Hines Elementary, on the old Brazos Furniture Rental store, Elm Street.


Another painting by J.H. Hines Elementary students, old Brazos Furniture Rental store, Elm Street.


Painting on the side of an old, closed theater at the intersection of Dallas Street and Elm. The wheelbarrow says "Cast Thy Burden Upon the Lord, Psalm 55:22." To the right of the figure is a somewhat faded "Deep Elm," possibly a play on the "Deep Ellum" entertainment district in Dallas.


Painting of Jesus on the side of the Waco Community Baptist Church Learning Center at 701 Elm.


Mural on the side of an old nightclub at the corner of Turner Street and Elm Avenue.


Full side view of 914 Elm Street.


A painting sharing the wall with two pictures of doves at 914 Elm.


Close-up of one of the doves at 914 Elm.


Large mural on the side of Marilyn's Gift Gallery at 818 Elm.


A mural, possibly unfinished, on the wall next to Just 4 You Clothing at 808 Elm.