Claustrophobics need not apply.
The entire town of whittier alaksa lives under one roof.
The alaskan town living under one roof.
Make it to the other end of those dimly lit miles and you ll.
An impossibly long single lane tunnel is your only way into whittier and your only way out.
The building is a former army barracks that was erected in the 1950 s and.
They made sure that they d never need to go outside again.
The 14 story building begich towers which looks like an appropriate.
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.
In whittier the 220 residents pretty much all live together under one roof.
The buckner building was eventually abandoned.
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 town s 200 residents primarily reside in a single 14 story building called begich towers a former army barracks.
In this alaskan town every resident lives in the same building winter in whittier means one thing.
The army plans an amazing complex in the middle of nowhere.
It s still a fairly inaccessible town young says.
Buckner and begich towers were at one time the largest buildings in alaska.
A self contained city in begich towers the harbor in whittier a bustling tourist town in the.
The other main structure in town the buckner building was completed in 1953 and was called the city under one roof.
And not just that.
About 217 people live there and it s.
With sub zero temperatures and 60 mph winds plaguing the town the people of whittier decided to stay safe by 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.
Yet all of it exists under one roof.