Hundreds of Minnesota families lived in corrugated steel sheds called Quonset huts after World War II — an economical but temporary solution to the era's housing crisis. The "ugly but necessary" ...

Since the late 1940s, a curious corrugated metal hut has been nestled among the Victorian shotguns and grand center-halls a half block from the river on Desire Street in Bywater. The squat, ...

As they say, one door closes and another opens. A Lewiston design firm, Shelter +7 Inc., has had a long-term working relationship with a West Gardiner builder who now wants to dial back his workload.

A Central Coast family is transforming a historic Morro Bay building into a boutique hotel. In 2023, local hoteliers John and Joan Solu bought a Quonset hut on Main Street. The 4,000-square-foot, dome ...

A photo of quonset huts at a U.S. Army base in Germany after World War II inspired a Dallas native’s project in Fort Worth. Philip Kafka’s PS1200 mixed-use development in Magnolia Village recently ...

Exterior of two Quonset huts at 905 & 907 12th Avenue, Green Bay, Wisconsin. Reader question: Why are there two military Quonset huts in the middle of Green Bay? Answer: "A pop can lying on its side" ...

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Hayden Wetzel is a retired federal worker with a passion for local history and a habit of walking around his Brookland neighborhood in search of interesting old stuff. One of his favorite finds is a ...

CARBONDALE — When Professor John Jackson arrived at Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 1969, the campus was full of repurposed World War II-era buildings. He remembers barracks transformed ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In the 1950s, Loveland residents and travelers along west U.S. 34 knew the double-barrel Quonset Hut on the north side of the highway as the Fawn Hollow ...

Reader question: Why are there two military Quonset huts in the middle of Green Bay? Answer: "A pop can lying on its side" is one of the ways the November/December 2019 issue of Humanities from the ...