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 ...

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 ...

To enter, one walked from the basement level of Pittsfield High School through a narrow corridor that had been graced with a tattered red carpet. Inside, about 25 students lounged around old cable ...

Quonset Hut, which opened in Canton as a hippie shop in the 1960s and became a popular record store, has been put up for sale. Quonset Hut recently celebrated its 55th anniversary with a special event ...

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, ...

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 ...

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" ...