Buckner Building, Whittier, Alaska

5/28/2003
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The Hodge and Buckner buildings were constructed in the late 1940s as part of a plan that originally included 10 monolithic concrete structures and a system of pedestrian and utility tunnels connecting them. The town would have held 30,000 military troops and families and provide an ice-free port and rail yard for Alaska during the cold war. Due to funding problems and changes in the political climate only two of the buildings were completed, and the Buckner building was abandoned after suffering damage in the 1964 good friday earthquake (magnitude 9.2, 14 people died in Whittier from landslides and waves). At that time there were only about 30 people in the town, and the population did not increase untill the city was incorporated
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