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The Patten Colony Farm is a historic farm property in
Palmer, Alaska Palmer is a city in and the county seat, borough seat of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States, located northeast of Anchorage on the Glenn Highway in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley, Matanuska Valley. It is the List of cities in A ...
. It is located near milepost 39.9 on the
Glenn Highway The Glenn Highway (part of Alaska Route 1) is a highway in the U.S. state of Alaska, extending from Anchorage near Merrill Field to Glennallen on the Richardson Highway. The Tok Cut-Off is often considered part of the Glenn Highway, for a ...
, and is a relatively complete instance of a farmstead established in the 1930s as part of the
Matanuska Valley Colony In 1935, the Federal Emergency Relief Administration created an experimental farming community known as the Matanuska Valley Colony as part of the New Deal resettlement plan. Situated in the Matanuska Valley, about 45 miles northeast of Anchorage ...
initiative. The complex consists of eight buildings, six of which were built in the 1930s. The main house is an L-shaped log structure with a concrete foundation, a rarity in the colony. Smaller outbuildings include a log outhouse, a chicken house, and two barns, one of which is the only surviving horse barn (out of two built) of the colony. With . The property was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 1991.


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National Register of Historic Places listings in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Matanuska-Susitna ...


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Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Alaska Buildings and structures completed in 1940 Buildings and structures in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, 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 {{Alaska-NRHP-stub