A lot of folks out there aren’t old enough to remember Quonset huts. Any of us who were around for World War II can remember them even if we were young during their heyday. Quonset huts came into ...

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" ...

CAMP PENDLETONCAMP PENDLETON — Quonset huts have an important place in the history of Camp Pendleton. Marines have occupied them for nearly 75 years. During the early 1940s, Camp Pendleton is believed ...

In Detroit, one developer has turned Quonset huts—better known for their use on farms and military bases—into affordable, efficient housing. On a half-vacant block a few miles outside of downtown ...

In 2014, Iain Harris had more than a vision of how to convert a 1942 Quonset hut — packed with rubbish from squatters and industrial relics of a former stained-glass factory — into a home. He also had ...

While Quonset huts remain cultural curiosities, they are seldom celebrated during National Historic Preservation Month. Manufactured in far-off factories and moved frequently, they seldom win a ...

It is a cheap, round, metal structure that can house people or an airplane. Or in Palo Alto’s case, it can be the home of a popular sports bar for more than 40 years — the Old Pro on El Camino Real ...

It is not the most recognizable landmark in Springfield, but that old Quonset hut at Church of the Little Flower on Stevenson Drive is a familiar sight just the same. We will soon be speaking of it in ...

When a reader wrote in to ask “What is the history of the Quonset hut buildings that are now homes on the south side of Davie Boulevard, just west of I-95?” we suspected that the homes were likely ...

Emerging now on an empty Detroit lot is a taste of a unique housing project designed by a Los Angeles architect with world-class credentials and financed by a New York City developer and entrepreneur.

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, ...