Post Office – Minden NE

Minden, Nebraska Post Office

Constructed in 1937, this Minden post office is also the site of William Bunn’s 1939 mural, “1848, Fort Kearney, Protectorate on the Overland Trail, 1871,” painted for the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.

Post Office Mural – Minden NE

"Military Post on the Overland Trail"

This oil-on-canvas mural entitled “1848, Fort Kearny, Protectorate on the Overland Trail, 1871” was painted by William E.L. Bunn, 1939. “Minden has the distinction of having perhaps the most ambitious and thoroughly researched of all of the post office murals… read more