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Mayor Lyman Parks Sculpture
- Outside the kent county administration building
- 300 Monroe NW
- Grand Rapids, MI 49503
- Neighborhood:Downtown
Mayor Lyman Parks won an election to Grand Rapids City Commission in 1968, representing the Third Ward. Parks served as both Grand Rapids’ first African American city commissioner in 1968 and mayor from 1971-1976.
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