Chester I. Lewis Reflection Square Park

This pocket park has picnic tables for pedestrians to sit down and enjoy their lunch in downtown Wichita.

There are bronze sculptures and fountains spread out in the park.

Girl With Balloon

Bronze sculpture by Georgia Gerber.

A little girl squats, playing with a balloon over a jet stream of water.

This is an interactive fountain where children and adults are encouraged to play, but NO pets are allowed.

The Busker

Bronze sculpture by Georgia Gerber.

A busker, also known as a street performer, plays his guitar while a little dog watches.

His guitar case lays on the ground behind him with a stool to his left.

The Lunch Counter

Bronze sculpture by Georgia Gerber.

A full-sized soda fountain with a number of seated patrons and a waitress behind the counter.

Pedestrians are allowed to sit at the counter and eat their lunch.

Scooter Boys

Bronze sculpture by Georgia Gerber.

A little boy walking his scooter with an older boy following him on his scooter.

Decorative Fountain

Ceramic mural design by Steve Murillo, 2000.

While this decorative fountain is lovely to look at, this fountain is NOT for people to play in.

Chester Isaac Lewis
(1929-1990)

This park is named after a lawyer who became president of the Wichita chapter of the NAACP.

He helped desegregate restaurants, swimming pools, aircraft companies, and local government agencies.

Dockum Drug Store Sit-in

This park sits on the former site of the Woolworth building where one of the first organized lunch counter sit-ins took place at the Dockum Drug Store in July 1958.