As Liz Shea-McCoy stood in front of the 50-foot concrete wall at Wyuka Cemetery on Monday afternoon, she was shaking with adrenaline.
Liz Shea-McCoy, project chair of the Pershing Mural historic preservation committee, left, and Luke Holle, owner of Superboy Construction, place the first square of the Pershing Mural on a concrete wall during a ceremony at Wyuka Cemetery on Monday. “To see that little square up there, I am just beyond proud of the project and the Nebraskans that helped to make it happen,” Shea-McCoy said. “Sometimes it takes a village, but in this case it took the whole state to make it happen.”
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Workers remove mural tiles from Pershing Center in July 2022.
The first square of the Pershing Mural was added to the new massive concrete wall at Wyuka Cemetery during a ceremony on Monday.
Pershing Mural Historic Preservation Project committee chair Liz Shea-McCoy speaks on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026, in a climate-controlled warehouse at 2820 West P Circle in a Lincoln. In the summer of 2024, 763,000 one‑inch tiles were removed from the Pershing mural after seven decades of weather exposure. The pieces were moved to a donated warehouse on the west side of Lincoln, where a small restoration team cleaned, buffed, repaired, and reorganized each tile, panel by panel, over many months.
Photos: Pershing Center mural
Pershing Center mural
Detail of the mosaic mural depicting circus trapeze artists on the facade of the Pershing Center.
Pershing Center mural
Detail of the mosaic mural depicting ballet and basketball on the facade of the Pershing Center.
Pershing Center mural
Detail of the mosaic mural depicting circus performers on the facade of the Pershing Center.
Pershing Center mural
Detail of the mosaic mural depicting rodeo and ballroom dancers on the facade of the Pershing Center.
Pershing Center mural
Detail of the mosaic mural depicting hockey players on the facade of the Pershing Center.
Pershing Center mural
Detail of the mosaic mural depicting boxing on the facade of the Pershing Center.
Pershing Center mural
Detail of the mosaic mural on the facade of the Pershing Center.
Pershing Center mural
Detail of the mosaic mural depicting wrestlers on the facade of the Pershing Center.
Pershing Center mural
Detail of the mosaic mural depicting musicians on the facade of the Pershing Center.
