Lysander & Susan Flagg
Museum and Cultural Center
209 Central Street
Central Falls RI 02863
(401) 727-7440
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The Lysander & Susan Flagg Museum is located next to the Central Falls Free Public Library at the site of the G.A.R. Post #3. As it was the tradition to name a Post for the first man from that area to die in battle, this one was named for Maj. Sullivan Ballou, who penned the now-famous letter to his wife, Sarah, just a few days before his death at Bull Run. MORE INFO

The Lysander & Susan Flagg Museum is the first museum in Central Falls history. It celebrates local history with a large collection of maps, newspapers, photographs, paintings, and artifacts. It houses the invaluable Gilbert R. Merrill Textile collection, and several paintings by renowned artist Lorenzo DeNevers. The Flagg Museum also includes a room dedicated to local veterans. The museum opened on November 7, 1999 during a ceremony honoring these heroes.

Lorenzo de Nevers

Lorenzo DeNevers 1877-1967

Lorenzo de Nevers was born in Sainte Elphege de La Baie-du-Fevres, in Yamaska County, Quebec Province, in 1877. He studied painting at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and at other institutions in Paris, and loved the City so much that he stayed there for 15 years. He returned to America at the beginning of World War I.

Lorenzo lived in different cities, moving around depending on where he could find commissions. He spent 17 years in New York, and also had studios in Woonsocket, Central Falls, and Providence, Rhode Island and in Montreal. He was known particularly for his portrait paintings. Among his works are portraits of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, King Alphonse XIII of Spain and King Albert I of Belgium. He also painted many of the Franco-American leaders of his day. The artist died in 1967.

A number of DeNevers' works are on display in the Centrals Free Public Library and at the Lysander and Susan Flagg Museum, next door to the library.