Buckner Building

When I lived in the lower 48, I was a Wasteland Warrior. My favorite hobby was exploring and photographing abandoned factories and buildings. Alas, Alaska is sorely lacking in many industrial...

Interesting building but nothing to go out of your way for. Building is fenced off but you can still walk around the perimeter and see a bit of the interior. From the cruise port, it was an easy...

This is the weird, runned-down building you must visit in weird Whittier. It's pretty easy to find, Whittier isn't very big and it's "just on the edge of town". There are plagues explaining the...

Started in 1949. Finished in 1954. Closed in 1960. State of the art for the time. 6 million in tax dollars. Now a ruin. No effort to salvage anything? Sad.

When I was 6 years old, my foster parents brought me to Whittier where my foster father was stationed. We lived on the 5th floor of the Buckner Building. I would stand at the window and watch...