Abandoned Alaska: A dark shadow over Whittier

The Buckner Building was completed in 1953. A marvel among marvels in the vital port city of Whittier, it housed 1,000 personnel and had all the amenities of home. Its heyday was short-lived, however, as a change in Cold War policy caused much of the city – and the Buckner Building itself – to go abandoned. In its shadow, a new Whittier in a kinder time has remade its identity.

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