Town Under One Roof

The community is 18 years old and many of us are having repeated leaks to repair.

Town under one roof.

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. The city under one roof. In whittier alaska a remote city about an hour outside of anchorage nearly every resident lives under one roof. 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.

This special spot is whittier alaska. But the army closed. This is the remote small town ensconced about 58 miles southeast of the city of anchorage. 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. Buckner building sometimes interesting. Incorporated in 1969 it s now known to some as the town 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.

Our documents only allow the hoa to clean the roofs annually and allow for no reserve account to replace the 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. Most of the. The building is a former army barracks that was erected in the 1950 s and.

So small in fact that almost its entire population has chosen to live under one roof the roof of the begich tower. Anton anderson memorial tunnel official site. A whole town under one roof we re moving on up visions of a self contained community within a 1 000 foot tall skyscraper how we will live tomorrow january 18 1925 zanesville times signal.