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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- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b Gimmestad, Dennis (1982-11-05). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form: Alberta Teachers House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "Alberta Teachers House". Minnesota National Register Properties Database. Minnesota Historical Society. 2009. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
