Two statues of the Monastery's patrons – St. Benedict and St. Scholastica – stand at the cloister walk entrance to Stanbrook, the main Monastery building. The statues were carved of white pine by a skilled Bavarian or Saxon craftsman in Europe about the year 1820. Seventy-five years later, when they had seen much wear and wood sculpture had lost popularity in Germany, they were coated with plaster, painted and then exported to America in 1895 because plaster statuary was in great demand in the United States.

The statues of Benedict and Scholastica were purchased by the Duluth Benedictines in 1895 for the Community. At the time the statues were still covered with a heavy coating of plaster and paint, giving them the appearance of being plaster molds rather than carved wood.

In 1909 the statues were moved to the "daisy farm" and placed in Tower Hall when the first wing was completed. In 1939 an Italian sculptor recognized that they were historic pieces carved from white pine. He cleaned off the heavy plaster and paint and restored the statues of St. Benedict and St. Scholastica to their original appearance.