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" ...
Sharif Tayeh, owner of multiple Hippie House locations in Ohio, has purchased Quonset Hut in Canton. Opened in 1969, Quonset Hut is expanding its vinyl record collection and inventory. A grand ...
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 ...
Meet Marie, co-founder of Steel Huts. Her family's mother-in-law suite is a Quonset hut, an innovative arched metal building ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...