Franklin’s history includes distinctive homes, transportation links, and public art. Attorney Patrick Gaynor, born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1848, was practicing law in Franklin by 1884 and designed the unique concrete home at 324 River Street; his daughter May married attorney Justin Harding, who later lived there and served as Assistant Attorney General of Ohio, as a district attorney and judge in Alaska, and in 1947 as one of the 24 judges at the Nuremburg Trials after World War II. The Eden Thirkield House at 318 River Street, a Greek Revival home built around 1848 for riverboat captain Henry C. Storm, was later sold to department store owner Eden Thirkield and is now home to the Museum of Spiritual Art, which houses works by local and international artists representing different religions of the world. William Schenck and Daniel Cooper platted Franklin in 1796, and the spaces between Second and Fifth Street and between Front Street, present-day River Street, and the river were given to the town’s inhabitants. The lions at the Second Street bridge were a gift from the J. W. Shipman Company of Cincinnati, which built a two-lane suspension bridge there that opened in 1873 with four lions on its anchorage piers; the lions were moved to the replacement bridge in 1933, and the bridge has long been called the Lions Bridge. A railroad bridge opened in 1887 for Cincinnati Northern trains coming south from Vanwert through Greenville, Germantown, and Franklin before using New York Central tracks to continue to Cincinnati; it survived the Flood of 1913 and was later raised two feet. Most of Franklin’s murals stand one block east of the bike path along Main Street, including works by artist Eric Henn, a native of Circleville and former Franklin resident whose work appears across the country. The Transportation Mural at Sixth and Main Streets, commissioned in 2003 for Ohio’s Bicentennial, depicts forms of transportation important to Franklin’s development; its building, constructed about 1909, served as the Traction Office where tickets were sold for the trolley between Detroit and Cincinnati, which operated 18 hours a day with trains every hour. Other murals include the Veteran’s Memorial Mural, the Delivery Mural at Pisanello’s, the Ohio Bicentennial mural, the Trompe l'Oeil Mural, and the Suspension Bridge Mural. The Delivery Mural site had been the location of Union Church, built in 1823 and also used by Methodist, Presbyterian, and First United Church of Christ congregations, before its demolition in 1905 and replacement by Conover Hardware Store. In 1872–73, a suspension bridge was built where the present bridge stands, based on the design of John Roebling, builder of the Brooklyn Bridge.