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 ...
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 ...
In the 1940s, Mt. Pleasant builder Fred Gannon built three small rental homes in the 1300 block of Bruce Street on Mt. Pleasant’s west side using the Quonset Hut pattern popular with the U.S. military ...
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" ...
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, ...
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 ...
NORTH KINGSTOWN – When the Navy base at Quonset Point closed in the 1970s, it delivered a body blow to Rhode Island's economy that would be felt for years. But when the federal government transferred ...
NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) — Fifteen miles off of Rhode Island’s nautical coast, construction is underway on the state’s first utility-scale offshore wind farm. Danish clean energy company Orsted ...
The helicopters will support three wind farms planned by Ørsted/Eversource. A German helicopter company is joining a major offshore wind partnership to help crews working on energy projects to power a ...
A recent URI grad from Providence was hired by Hayward Industries, one of more than 250 companies located at the business ...