Pribilof Islands Historic Preservation and Environmental Restoration

Topics

Teacher's Houses
St. Paul Island

Return to Seal Islands Historic District National Historic Landmark

National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form text:

Built in 1948. Three houses exactly alike placed in a row. One and one-half story cement [concrete] bungalows with front sidewalks and sod yards. Formerly known as “Employees’ Houses,” the group is informally known as “silk stocking row” [after the silk stockings worn by the female teachers that lived in the houses] (Faulkner 1986).

Supplemental information provided by NOAA:
Construction on two of the three “Employees Houses” were completed in 1924 and construction of the third such house began in 1924 and was completed in 1925 (Bower 1925, 143), and not in 1948. In 1935, cement sidewalks and sod were put around the three cottages for white employees (Bower 1936, 49).

Photo of two of the teacher's houses, white houses against a blue sky.
Two of the Teacher's Houses (NOAA 2006).