Bailey Colony Farm

The Bailey Colony Farm, also known as the Estelle Farm, is a historic Matanuska Colony farmstead that dates from 1935. It is located along the Glenn Highway near Palmer, Alaska in Matanuska-Susitna Borough. 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 US, in a program conceived of by FERA architect David Williams.

Bailey Colony Farm
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Alaska Heritage Resources Survey
Location	3150 North Glenn Highway
Nearest city	Palmer, Alaska
Coordinates	61°36′57″N 149°07′10″W
Area	2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built	1935
Built by	Ferber Bailey
Architect	Williams, David
MPS	Settlement and Economic Development of Alaska's Matanuska-Susitna Valley MPS
NRHP reference No.	91000775[1]
AHRS No.	ANC-056
Added to NRHP	June 21, 1991

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) ​1 ¹⁄₂-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]

See also

• Matanuska Valley Colony
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Bailey Colony Farm / Estelle Farm / AHRS Site No. ANC-056". National Park Service. and accompanying six photos