Begich Towers

Coordinates: 60°46′20″N 148°41′08″W / 60.77222°N 148.68556°W / 60.77222; -148.68556

The Begich Towers Condominium is a building in Whittier, a very small town of Alaska. Its uniqueness lies in an eclectic mood of the structure that includes the private apartments that major urban services, to the point of focus around a couple of hundred people, or nearly the entire population of Whittier, which amounts to 217 inhabitants.

History

The area of Whittier was explored from 1943, during World War II, when it was chosen as the place to build a military harbour and a logistics base for the US Army. The building was designed in 1953 by the military Anton Anderson to host the headquarters of the US Army Corps of Engineers and its relative living spaces and was named in memory of Colonel William Walter Hodge, commander of the 93rd Engineer Regiment of Alcan Highway. The Hodge Building, was part of a larger project that included the construction of ten other similar buildings for military use. Next to it, in fact, in 1957 it was also created the Buckner Building, at the time called the biggest building of Alaska. Despite the ambitious plan, these buildings were the only two to be made and were used by the US Army until the early sixties.