The building is a former army barracks that was erected in the 1950 s and.
The entire town of whittier alaksa lives under one roof.
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.
With sub zero temperatures and 60 mph winds plaguing the town the people of whittier decided to stay safe by living under one roof.
The other main structure in town the buckner building was completed in 1953 and was called the city under one roof.
The army plans an amazing complex in the middle of nowhere.
Make it to the other end of those dimly lit miles and you ll.
Yet all of it exists under one roof.
And not just that.
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.
It s still a fairly inaccessible town young says.
About 217 people live there and it s.
The alaskan town living under one roof.
So small in fact that almost its entire population has chosen to live under one roof the roof of the begich tower.
Buckner and begich towers were at one time the largest buildings in alaska.
Claustrophobics need not apply.
Like any small town whittier alaska has a church medical clinic police station post office restaurant laundromat market and neighborhood bar.
The town s 200 residents primarily reside in a single 14 story building called begich towers a former army barracks.
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.
The buckner building was eventually abandoned.
They made sure that they d never need to go outside again.
In this alaskan town every resident lives in the same building winter in whittier means one thing.