Alberta Teachers House

Alberta Teachers House
The Alberta Teachers House from the northeast
Location Main Street, Alberta, Minnesota
Coordinates 45°34′33.3″N 96°2′54″W / 45.575917°N 96.04833°W / 45.575917; -96.04833Coordinates: 45°34′33.3″N 96°2′54″W / 45.575917°N 96.04833°W / 45.575917; -96.04833
Area Less than one acre
Built 1917
Architect Unknown
Architectural style American Craftsman
NRHP reference # 83000942[1]
Added to NRHP February 11, 1983

The Alberta Teachers House is a historic house in Alberta, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1917 to provide urbane, apartment-like housing for faculty of the adjacent school as part of the era's efforts to modernize rural education.[2] The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 for having local significance in the themes of education and social history.[3] It was nominated for its associations with a key period in the development of Minnesota's rural education system. At the time the state's numerous one-room schoolhouses were being consolidated into fewer, larger facilities centered in towns and cities. The Alberta Teachers House was an experiment by the General Education Board, a national philanthropic foundation, intended to engender community building and make rural teaching posts more appealing.[2]

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  1. ↑ National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 Gimmestad, Dennis (1982-11-05). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form: Alberta Teachers House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
  3. ↑ "Alberta Teachers House". Minnesota National Register Properties Database. Minnesota Historical Society. 2009. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
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