title: Teacherage
text: # Teacherage
  
  A teacherage is a house for one or more schoolteachers, like a parsonage is a house for a parson or minister of a Protestant church.
  
  Notable examples include:
  
  * Markham School and Teacherage, Oilton, Oklahoma, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)
  * San Juan Teacherage, in Grant County, New Mexico, NRHP-listed
  * Fuquay Springs Teacherage, Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina, NRHP-listed
  * Fountain Inn Principal's House and Teacherage, Fountain Inn, South Carolina, NRHP-listed
  * Great Branch Teacherage, Orangeburg, South Carolina, NRHP-listed
  * Garland Community School Teacherage, Dekalb, Texas, NRHP-listed
  
  ## In popular culture
  
  The orphanage is closed down and sold to become a teacherage at the end of the novel, The BFG.
  
  