Town Under One Roof

Buckner building sometimes interesting.

Town under one roof.

A port for the official alaska marine highway whittier is technically accessible by ferry but the only other way to get there is via a two and a half mile long single lane anton anderson memorial tunnel. About 217 people live there and it s. The city under one roof. The larger of the two the buckner building was called a city under one roof it housed 1 000 troops with room left over for a movie theater bowling alley and post office.

Incorporated in 1969 it s now known to some as the town under one roof. Most of the. Town hall article on whittier at the wayback machine archived january 4 2015 welcome to whittier alaska a community under one roof npr 18 january 2015. Anton anderson memorial tunnel official site.

So small in fact that almost its entire population has chosen to live under one roof the roof of the begich tower. Welcome to whittier alaska a community under one roof this sleepy town on the west side of prince william sound is remote and it s hit with brutal winter weather every year. In whittier alaska a remote city about an hour outside of anchorage nearly every resident lives under one roof. Since 80 of our population lives here in this 14 story building in real close quarters everyone is hyper aware now hunt said.

This is the remote small town ensconced about 58 miles southeast of the city of anchorage. This special spot is whittier alaska. The alaskan town where everyone lives under just one roof welcome to whittier the alaskan town with just one building in which its 300 residents live work shop and go to school. 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 building is a former army barracks that was erected in the 1950 s and. But the army closed. Our documents only allow the hoa to clean the roofs annually and allow for no reserve account to replace the roof.