Off MN 302, Sauk Centre, Minnesota. County/parish: Stearns.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places January 19, 1989. NRIS 88003090.
18 contributing buildings. 1 contributing structure.Also known as:
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was a reformatory in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, United States. It was Minnesota's first single-sex reformatory for girls from its establishment in 1911 to 1967, when it switched to a coeducational model and shortened its name to the Minnesota Home School. The facility closed in 1999. The campus was designed on the Cottage Plan, with dispersed buildings in a bucolic setting, by Minnesota state architect Clarence H. Johnston Sr. The site has been converted to a veteran care center called Eagle's Healing Nest.
The campus was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 as the Minnesota Home School for Girls Historic District for its state-level significance in the themes of architecture and social history. It was nominated for being the first Minnesota state facility designed to treat female juvenile delinquents, for embodying the Cottage Plan theory of institutional design, and for Johnston Sr.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93203076