All Projects

To provide professional development for one staff member at the national American Association for State and Local History Conference in St. Paul, September 17-20, 2014.

To provide professional development for one staff member at the national American Association for State and Local History Conference in St. Paul, September 17-20, 2014.

To provide professional development for two staff members at the national American Association for State and Local History Conference in St. Paul, September 17-20, 2014.

Partner Organizations: Winona County Historical Society and Theatre du Mississippiona Winona County Historical Society and Theatre du Mississippi will partner to produce a new interpretive program for the Historic William Bunnell House in 2015. They will conduct research to produce an hour-long script based on the lives of families who lived in the house and the period they lived there. This new program will create a purpose for a house museum which has been languishing.

To purchase a microfilm reader/printer to make microfilmed records more accessible to the public.

To add 82 rolls of microfilmed newspapers and Alien Registration and Declaration of Holding Forms to broaden public accessibility to primary records.

To prepare a nomination to the National Register of Historic Places for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company Station.

To gain intellectual and physical control of historic objects held in public trust.

To gain intellectual and physical control of historic objects held in public trust.

To provide better organization of the museum collections, allowing for greater public access to the community

To gain intellectual and physical control of historic objects held in public trust using PastPerfect Museum Software.

The final edit, of a manuscript describing the work of women of the Eastern bands of the Dakota Nation, was prepared by the author/project director for submission to the Minnesota Historical Society Press for publication.

The story of how contact and conflict with Europeans and European Americans, war and forced relocation changed how these women retained the knowledge and traditions of their grandmothers is tied to the U.S. - Dakota War of 1862 and carries forward to today.

To translate into English from Polish the story of World War II Minneapolis serviceman Walter Shimshock (Szymczak).

To conduct a general survey of the university collections; assess interior environments, policies and procedures for the use and care of collections; and produce a long-range preservation plan.

To hire a qualified museum consultant to conduct a general preservation needs assessment survey and long range collections preservation plan.

To gain intellectual and physical control of historic objects held in public trust.

To hire a qualified consultant to write an exhibit plan for the National Eagle Center.

To hire a qualified historian to complete the nomination to the National Register of Historic Places for Phelps and Somsen Halls on the campus of Winona State University.

To gain intellectual and physical control of historic objects held in public trust.

To augment a National Endowment for the Humanities exhibit at the county museum with mobile electronic access to the historic built environment

To tuck-point three of six floors and repair one wall of the Pickwick Mill, listed on the National Register.

To improve collections care and management through proper storage.

Partner Organizations: Kasson Alliance for Restoration, Mantorville Restoration Association, Friends of Mayowood, Denmark Township Historical Society, Friends of Saint Rose, Preservation Lake City, County Historical Societies, Red Wing Downtown Main Street, Winona Main Street, Winona Area Chamber of Commerce, Faribault Main Street, and Faribault Area Chamber of Commerce and Tourism PAM will work to provide its partners with staff support, administration, supervision, and additional preservation and planning expertise.

To begin the inventory of collections documenting the history of Winona County.

Improved the safety and the environment for historical artifacts by separating an exhibit fabrication area.

An old coal room was retrofitted with a compatible reuse where the intake has been reversed to exhale. This special facility will enable the Winona County Historical Society to be more intentional and responsive with its exhibits, which before the addition were fairly static. Their stated intention in the final report is to have exhibits that change more often and therefore prompt the Society’s building to be used a more frequent gathering space.

To restore the battlement on the Winona Armory, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, and currently used as the Winona County History Museum.

Four individual national register nomination forms were prepared for Central, Madison, Jefferson and Washington-Kosciusko elementary schools located in the city of Winona. A qualified historian was hired to prepare the documentation. The schools had been previously evaluated and found to be eligible for nomination.

To hire a qualified consultant to research the history of the Winona Historic Preservation Commission, in preparation for an expanded HPC website.

To hire a qualified consultant to write a historic structure report for the Winona Masonic Temple, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.