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" ...

A residential blaze in Saticoy Saturday drew a large firefighter response as crews upgraded the incident to a second-alarm fire. The incident was reported shortly before 11:15 a.m. in the 11100 block ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marie Saldivar’s experimental metal-clad dwelling is the perfect place to host family—and proof of concept for her new prefab ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mike Audiss, of Endeavor, left; Roger Hillmer, of Montello; and Dan Mraz, of Portage, finish work Friday afternoon on the disassembly of the Quonset hut on New Pinery Road near the central Kwik Trip ...

The Westerner is a mercantile that sells a variety of goods. It's located in a building owner Rod Cervera said was built in 1953. KERNVILLE, Calif. (KERO) — A new store is taking up space that has a ...