About Us

The three buildings located on South Oak Street and the corner of West Wisconsin Avenue in Grantsburg; make up the society’s complex. The society’s exhibits housed in the 1800s Norwegian Methodist Church is handicapped accessible. The original Burnett County Jail, a three cell wooden structure, utilized from 1870-1920. The Stenborg Home, known as Emma’s House, built in the late 1800s, donated to the society by descendants of Alex Stenborg, an early Grantsburg blacksmith and renovated to demonstrate life style of that era