Jim Cook said his family home in Makaha was a Quonset hut. Their Model A Ford pickup was parked in front. From 1941 to 1945 the U.S. military mass-produced more than 150,000 of the shelters, making ...

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" ...

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 ...

Quonset huts are lightweight structures of corrugated galvanized steel that doesn’t require interior wall supports. Read this five-year retrospective on what it’s like living in a Quonset hut home in ...

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, ...