TEACHERS' COTTAGES 



Minnesota. 



First Floor Plan Second Floor Plan 



Floor Plans, Teachers' Cottage, Barnum, Minnesota 



The upstairs will have two bedrooms for teachers and a sitting room 

 between, and a dining room and kitchen combined about 16x16, and a 

 bedroom for a girl if they want to hire someone to do the work. Her room 

 is off from the kitchen and is not connected with their apartments. Each 

 bedroom is provided with a good closet. The house will have a hot-air 

 furnace, but no bath or toilet. The cost of the furnace is not included 

 in the $2,200 mentioned before, as I did not want a furnace while I was 

 here, as I know how hard it is to heat a house to suit lady teachers, and 

 as yet I haven't gone into the janitor business and I don't expect to, so 

 there won't be any furnace as long as I stay, but they are building so they 

 can if they wish to later on. I have my reasons for not wanting to be 

 under any obligations whatever to the teachers who are teaching under 

 my supervision, and I feel they are well grounded after my experience 

 here. 



I feel that the teachers' home is the only solution of the teacher 

 problem in the small towns and rural communities, but I am convinced 

 there should be no responsibility between superintendent and teachers as 

 to rent, heat, or anything of the kind. 



The house will accommodate the superintendent and family and four 

 teachers if they hire their work done, and six if they do not, and I am 

 sure from past experience they will do their own work, as it is much 

 cheaper. We have a good three-year High School, and as soon as our 

 enrollment forces them to build an addition, which they plan to do later, 

 we will put in the full High School course. (E. V. Hemsworth, Superin- 

 tendent, Consolidated School District No. 8, Barnum, Minn.) 



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