Norway House
Norwegian American Institutions
If one were to scribe a circle around the Twin Cities with a radius of 450 miles, it would include most of the major areas of Norwegian American settlement and activities in the Central United States. Within this area are located five of the six major Norwegian Lutheran Colleges – Augsburg, Augustana, Concordia, Luther and St. Olaf; the headquarters of Sons of Norway International; the former fraternal life insurance company known as Lutheran Brotherhood; and various departments of Scandinavian and Norwegian language at state universities and private colleges in the upper Midwest.