Bailey Colony Farm
Alaska Heritage Resources Survey
Bailey Colony Farm is located in Alaska
Bailey Colony Farm
Location3150 North Glenn Highway
Nearest cityPalmer, Alaska
Coordinates61°36′57″N 149°07′10″W / 61.61585°N 149.11931°W / 61.61585; -149.11931
Area2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built1935
Built byFerber Bailey
ArchitectWilliams, David
MPSSettlement and Economic Development of Alaska's Matanuska-Susitna Valley MPS
NRHP reference No.91000775[1]
AHRS No.ANC-056
Added to NRHPJune 21, 1991

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.

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]

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  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. 1 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


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