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 barn was moved about 150 feet in the 1940s to its present location, when the Glenn Highway was widened.

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