Bailey Colony Farm
Bailey Colony Farm | |
Alaska Heritage Resources Survey
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Location | 3150 North Glenn Highway |
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Nearest city | Palmer, Alaska |
Coordinates | 61°36′57″N 149°07′10″W / 61.61585°N 149.11931°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, 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]
See also
[edit]- Matanuska Valley Colony
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska
References
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- Buildings and structures completed in 1935
- Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Alaska
- Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Alaska
- Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska
- 1935 establishments in Alaska
- Agriculture stubs
- Alaska Registered Historic Place stubs
- Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska geography stubs