Town Under One Roof

Whittier alaska is a town under one roof upvoted like any small town whittier alaska has a church medical clinic police station post office restaurant laundromat market and neighborhood bar.

Town under one roof. 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. So how is whittier under one roof you ask. About 217 people live there and it s. The alaskan town where everyone lives under just one roof.

Buckner building sometimes interesting. 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. But the army closed. Anton anderson memorial tunnel official site.

The two and a half mile long tunnel leading into whittier is never that. 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. Incorporated in 1969 it s now known to some as the 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. In whittier alaska a remote city about an hour outside of anchorage nearly every resident lives under one roof.

Because whittier is an unusual town. Yet all of it exists 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. For a community with only 200 residents the landscape is dominated by one surprisingly tall structure.

Welcome to whittier the alaskan town with just one building in which its 300 residents live work shop and go to school. Except instead of a sprawling urban center this town has been scaled to fit almost entirely into one lonely alaskan tower. This is the remote small town ensconced about 58 miles southeast of the city of anchorage.