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
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
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 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+12-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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