Crews are demolishing the last remaining Quonset hut on the SIU Carbondale campus.

Demolition began Tuesday on the Quonset hut located near the Forestry Building on campus. The process is expected to last ...

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" ...

When a reader wrote in to ask “What is the history of the Quonset hut buildings that are now homes on the south side of Davie Boulevard, just west of I-95?” we suspected that the homes were likely ...

The Quonset hut, the familiar hemispherical building of corrugated metal, was developed for the Navy in 1941 as a lightweight, easily constructed shelter. It gets its name for the site of its first ...

FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii — The Army this week unveiled 20 newly built barracks at Pohakuloa Training Area on Hawaii’s Big Island, the first phase of construction to replace the roughly 100 1950s-era ...

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, ...

In Detroit, one developer has turned Quonset huts—better known for their use on farms and military bases—into affordable, efficient housing. On a half-vacant block a few miles outside of downtown ...