Matanuska Colony Community Center

	Matanuska Colony Community Center
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district
Location	Roughly bounded by S. Colony, E. Firewood, S. Eklutua, E. Elmwood, S. Denali and a line N of properties on E. Dahlia, Palmer, Alaska
Area	8 acres (3.2 ha)
Built	1940
MPS	Settlement and Economic Development of Alaska's Matanuska--Susitna Valley MPS
NRHP reference No.	91000773
Added to NRHP	June 21, 1991

The Matanuska Colony Community Center is a cluster of buildings near the center of Palmer, Alaska that were the centerpiece of the Depression-era Matanuska Valley Colony. This federal rural resettlement program was intended to give needy families resources and land to improve their condition. The colony's buildings were erected beginning in 1935, and those that survive represent a well-preserved example of government community planning. It is centered on a city block bounded by E Dahlia, S Valley Way, S Denali, and E Elmwood, and extends to the north and south. The buildings on this block are organized around a grassy quadrangle, laid out in 1935. Prominent buildings include three churches, located in the block just southeast of the quadrangle, one of which, the United Protestant Church, is a distinctive log structure. The colony's Central School, now added to several times, houses the offices of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough.^[2]

The area was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.^[1]

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^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "NRHP nomination for Matanuska Colony Community Center". National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-01-17.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[NRHP-2] "NRHP nomination for Matanuska Colony Community Center". National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-01-17.

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