The Berry House is a historic house at 5805 North Farm Loop Road, near

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 a simple -story wood-frame structure with a gable roof. It was designed by architect and community planner David Williams, and built in 1935 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 ...

project. Despite a rearward extension in 1971, the building is a well-preserved example of the type of housing built as part of this New Deal project. The house is named for James Berry, one of the project participants who was the house's third occupant. and The house was listed on the

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in 1991. It is owned by the

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1935 establishments in Alaska Houses completed in 1935 Houses in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Alaska Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska {{MatanuskaSusitnaAK-geo-stub