Bailey Colony Farm

Bailey Colony Farm
Location 3150 N. Glenn Highway
Nearest city Palmer, Alaska
Coordinates 61°36′59″N 149°7′2″W / 61.61639°N 149.11722°W / 61.61639; -149.11722Coordinates: 61°36′59″N 149°7′2″W / 61.61639°N 149.11722°W / 61.61639; -149.11722
Area 2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built 1935; 1940
Built by Bailey,Ferber
Architect Williams,David
MPS Settlement and Economic Development of Alaska's Matanuska-Susitna Valley MPS
NRHP Reference # 91000775[1]
Added to NRHP June 21, 1991

The Bailey Colony Farm, on the Glenn Highway near Palmer, Alaska in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, is a historic Matanuska Colony farmstead that dates from 1935. It was part of a New Deal program opening farms in Alaska as part of assisting overpopulated rural areas of the lower 48 states of the USA, in a program conceived of by FERA architect David Williams.

Also known as the Estelle Farm and denoted as AHRS Site No. ANC-056, the Bailey Colony Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. The listing included two contributing buildings.[1][2] It was the home of Ferber and Ruth Bailey and their children, who were colonists from Wisconsin. The house is a 28-by-32-foot (8.5 m × 9.8 m) one-and-a-half story building with a gambrel roof; the barn is a 32-by-32-foot (9.8 m × 9.8 m) log and frame built building also with a gambrel roof. Both were built in 1935. The barn was moved about 150 feet in the 1940s to its present location, when the Glenn Highway was widened.[2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Bailey Colony Farm / Estelle Farm / AHRS Site No. ANC-056" (PDF). National Park Service. and accompanying six photos


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