Government Hill , along with portions of downtown Anchorage and the Turnagain-By-The-Sea subdivision southwest of downtown , were among the hardest hit in the earthquake of March 27 , 1964 . A landslide along the bluff immediately east of Loop Road , estimated as covering over , resulted in the destruction of Government Hill Elementary School , two residences atop the bluff , and a railroad building at the bottom . The west wing of the school was sheared in two . Due to continuing instability of the land underneath , the building was left as it was and the site fenced off , until the site was redeveloped as a neighborhood park in 1985
earthquake of March 27 , 1964
1964 Alaska earthquake
Government Hill, Anchorage