Rather than face the cold the people of whittier built everything they needed inside begich towers.
The entire town of whittier alaksa lives under one roof.
And not just that.
The 14 story building begich towers which looks like an appropriate.
In this alaskan town every resident lives in the same building winter in whittier means one thing.
The town s 200 residents primarily reside in a single 14 story building called begich towers a former army barracks.
The other main structure in town the buckner building was completed in 1953 and was called the city under one roof.
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.
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.
So small in fact that almost its entire population has chosen to live under one roof the roof of the begich tower.
Claustrophobics need not apply.
The alaskan town living under one roof.
Yet all of it exists under one roof.
It s still a fairly inaccessible town young says.
The buckner building was eventually abandoned.
The building is a former army barracks that was erected in the 1950 s and.
Like any small town whittier alaska has a church medical clinic police station post office restaurant laundromat market and neighborhood bar.
Make it to the other end of those dimly lit miles and you ll.
In whittier alaska almost all of the tiny town s 200 residents live in one building and hardly ever have to go outside.
With sub zero temperatures and 60 mph winds plaguing the town the people of whittier decided to stay safe by living under one roof.
In whittier the 220 residents pretty much all live together under one roof.
A self contained city in begich towers the harbor in whittier a bustling tourist town in the.
The army plans an amazing complex in the middle of nowhere.