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 ...
From a "rammed earth" house in Jones, to a made-over classic mid-century modern home in Oklahoma City's Edgemere Heights, to a vintage Bricktown warehouse married to a 1940s Quonset hut, this year's ...
A Central Coast family is transforming a historic Morro Bay building into a boutique hotel. In 2023, local hoteliers John and Joan Solu bought a Quonset hut on Main Street. The 4,000-square-foot, dome ...
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 ...
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, a common sight in old war movies, may sound foreign and vaguely exotic, but the name actually derives from the Quonset Point Naval Air Station in Rhode Island, where the U.S. Navy first ...
The World War II-era Quonset huts at Pohakuloa Training Area are now dilapidated and flood-prone. Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser ...
DETROIT – Detroit is bringing in the old for a new type of neighborhood: welcome to True North. Truth North is a Quonset hut community that opened earlier this summer to residents. The community, ...
Few episodes in Alaska's history have had a more profound impact in shaping the territory's development and character than World War II. Preceding the war, Alaska was an isolated wilderness populated ...
CANTON The Quonset Hut is officially in its new home after months of planning and work. That the store would move likely ranks among one of the area's worst kept business secrets. Quonset Hut left the ...
When David Robert, a helicopter pilot from Lafourche Parish, LA, flew over the Gulf Coast in 2005, he saw firsthand the destruction wrought by a trio of hurricanes that swept through the region: Cindy ...