The timing is coincidental, but a mural on an exterior wall of the Italian Fraternal Society building in Butler was completed Wednesday in time for this weekend’s Butler Italian Days.

Though the building is not a venue for the Italian Days event, it is one of the few remaining vestiges of the Italian heritage of the city’s South Side.

Butler artist Tom Panei worked with officers from the society to use photos of the neighborhood dating to the 1940s and ’50s as subjects for the 26-foot-by-30-foot mural.

The mural shows Panei’s abstract depiction of businesses on Center Avenue, the original St. Michael’s Church on Spring Street and the society building adjacent to each other.

Jason Delano, vice president of the society that was created in 1905 and has over 400 members, said Center Avenue

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