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 ...

FORT LAUDERDALE — Soldiers during World War II knew their Quonset huts as places to store tanks, ammunition and medical supplies. Judy Skinner knows hers as home. Skinner and about a dozen other ...

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 ...

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 ...

To the untrained eye, Robert Iantorno’s home looks like a grain shed. The utilitarian structure, in the small village of Singhamton, Ont., is a domed steel shell with no windows on its long, ridged ...

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, ...

A Hawaii historian is looking to preserve an old Quonset hut on Oahu that was possibly part of a segregated encampment for black laborers and enlisted men during World War II. Deloris Guttman, who ...

It's a Quonset, but it's a far cry from a hut. And the small cottage on a southern lower Michigan lake is up for sale. The 597-square-foot house is located on Swains Lake at 642 Swains Lake Drive, ...

DIGHTON — The rounded roof of a Quonset hut should be ideal for heavy snow. Unlike flat roofs, the snow typically slides off before dangerous weight builds to the crushing point. Inadequate ...

When you first look at 429697 8th Concession B Rd. you might think it's a farm with a couple of grain sheds on it. But what the untrained eye is missing is a custom-built Quonset-style home that is an ...