Bailey Colony Farm

Bailey Colony Farm
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
File:Bailey Colony Farm.jpg
Location	3150 N. Glenn Highway
Nearest city	Palmer, Alaska
Coordinates
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
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. 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.

See also

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