Buckner and begich towers were at one time the largest buildings in alaska.
The entire town of whittier alaksa lives under one roof.
In whittier alaska almost all of the tiny town s 200 residents live in one building and hardly ever have to go outside.
Like any small town whittier alaska has a church medical clinic police station post office restaurant laundromat market and neighborhood bar.
It s still a fairly inaccessible town young says.
Claustrophobics need not apply.
Make it to the other end of those dimly lit miles and you ll.
In whittier the 220 residents pretty much all live together under one roof.
The buckner building was eventually abandoned.
With sub zero temperatures and 60 mph winds plaguing the town the people of whittier decided to stay safe by living under one roof.
Yet all of it exists under one roof.
A self contained city in begich towers the harbor in whittier a bustling tourist town in the.
The 14 story building begich towers which looks like an appropriate.
An impossibly long single lane tunnel is your only way into whittier and your only way out.
Whittier alaska is a small remote town 60 miles south of anchorage that is commonly referred to as the town under one roof how small is whittier.
The army plans an amazing complex in the middle of nowhere.
And not just that.
About 217 people live there and it s.
The town s 200 residents primarily reside in a single 14 story building called begich towers a former army barracks.
The building is a former army barracks that was erected in the 1950 s and.
You can get to whittier by sea or take a long one lane tunnel through the mountains which at any given time only runs one way.
They made sure that they d never need to go outside again.
Rather than face the cold the people of whittier built everything they needed inside begich towers.
The other main structure in town the buckner building was completed in 1953 and was called the city under one roof.