After three months, prolific historic painter Richard Hubal is wrapping up a 110-foot tribute to old Rice Street; a brightly-colored mural to be seen by those driving into St. Paul from the north.

“I live and breathe Rice Street, it’s very important to me. And Rice Street needs all the help it can get,” said Hamernick’s Decorating owner Ted Natus, who commissioned the work to be painted on the side of his building at 1381 Rice St.

The 15-foot-high acrylic painted mural starts in the late 1800s with famous fur trader Henry Rice on a horse, and ends in the mid-1960s when Rice Street was bustling. Related Articles As memories of George Floyd fade, activists make sure his legacy does not

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Included are such landmarks as St. Mary’s Romanian Orthodox Church and the Church of St. Bernard, the Klubhaus, Mama’s Pizza, the old Tschida Bakery, the Bluebird Theater and Michael Sarafolean’s old barber shop.

Roughly 150 characters are seen walking, driving and gesturing thoughout the work.

Hubal, who over the past several decades has painted dozens of historic murals, mostly in the Twin Cities, qualified the style of his latest work as a cross between Impressionism and Haitian art, known for its bright colors and heavily outlined figures.