The Alberta Teachers House is a historic house in

Alberta, Minnesota Alberta is a city in Stevens County, Minnesota, Stevens County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 94 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. History A post office called Alberta has been in operation since 1896. The city was na ...

, 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. 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. 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.

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