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Photograph of Alberta Teachers House
Photograph by Gobonobo, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Alberta Teachers House

Built in 1917 (American Craftsman). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“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.”

Wikipedia article Alberta Teachers House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Stevens County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1917, American Craftsman.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Main St., Alberta, 56207
  • When was it listed? February 1983
  • Category. building
  • Township. Scott township
  • When was it built? 1917
  • Architectural style. American Craftsman
  • National Register reference number. 83000942 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

9 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Alberta Teachers House between 1993 and 2017, burning about 117 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresMorris National Wildlife RefugeWAGNER WPA
25 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMorris National Wildlife RefugePRAIRIE WPA
1 May 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresMorris National Wildlife RefugeMOSQUITO RANCH WPA
1 May 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresMorris National Wildlife RefugeGREINER WPA
27 April 2006Debris and open burning12 acresMorris National Wildlife RefugePEPPERTON WPA
24 April 1999Debris and open burning35 acresMorris National Wildlife RefugeROBINHOOD
22 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMorris National Wildlife RefugeSTIMMLER
20 November 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMorris National Wildlife RefugeLAWRENCE WPA

Every fire recorded in Stevens County

Storms near this property

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alberta, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2022Thunderstorm WindAlberta$50,000A grain silo was destroyed south of Alberta.
March 2010FloodAlberta$40,000Numerous counties roads were flooded from snow melt and associated runoff along several tributaries of the Minnesota River, in Stevens County. Monetary costs were based on FEMA, State, and Local assistance which includes the following categories; debris removal, emergency protective measures, and road systems and bridges.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindAlberta$25,000A large storage shed was destroyed near Alberta along with a few large trees blown down. An outbuilding was blown about 100 yards.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindAlberta$10,000Grain bin dented, roof off pole barn.
July 2025Flash FloodAlberta-Training thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall which led to multiple roads being under water in Alberta.
June 2013HailAlberta-Crop damage was reported in a two mile swath along County Road 8 due to large hail.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindAlberta-A 71 mph wind gust was measured by a mobile weather sensor. In the vicinity of the wind gust, several large tree limbs were blown off.
August 2013HailAlberta-Hail was 1.75 thick.
March 2009FloodAlberta-Due to rapid snow melt and locally heavy rainfall, several roads were closed due to flood waters.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindAlberta-Pine trees up to 70 feet tall were downed. Tin and shingles were blown off a building.
October 1997Thunderstorm WindAlberta-Structural damage just south of Lake Hattie. Estimated windspeed.
July 2025HailAlberta-no account filed
July 2025HailAlberta-no account filed
May 2022HailAlberta-no account filed
June 2015HailAlberta-no account filed
June 2013HailAlberta-no account filed
July 2006HailAlberta-no account filed
May 1996HailAlberta-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindAlberta-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindAlberta-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stevens County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

5 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83000942 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Stevens CountyAll 6 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.