St. James Sites

The post office in St James was completed in 1938 with funds provided by the Treasury Department. It is also the site of Margaret Martin's 1940 mural, "Indian Hunters and Rice Gatherers," completed with funds provided by the federal government and viewable in the lobby.

Margaret Martin painted this oil-on-canvas mural, entitled "Indian Hunters and Rice Gatherers," in 1940 with funds provided by the federal government. It is viewable in the St. James post office lobby.   "Margaret Martin’s mural proposal for the St. James, Minnesota, post office showed Indians gathering wild rice, hunting fowl, and fishing, emphasizing the harmony between the Land of 10,000 Lakes and its earliest inhabitants. Martin took nine months to complete this work, which has hung in its original location at the post office since June 1940. In the mural, a woman uses sticks to harvest the rice from the stalks, while...