An unusual building just hit the real estate market in Morro Bay: a World War II-era Quonset hut. Listed by Jay Chiasson of Navigators Real Estate, the 4,000-square-foot building is located on 1141 ...
Quonset huts are lightweight structures of corrugated galvanized steel that doesn’t require interior wall supports. Read this five-year retrospective on what it’s like living in a Quonset hut home in ...
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, ...
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" ...
Michael Patrick O’Brien: My unlikely ‘Tin Can Abbey’ in Utah’s Zion is gone, but its spirit lives on
I have a strange and nostalgic affection for Quonset huts. My odd architectural ardor for the prefabricated, semicircular metal structures that housed World War II airplanes and soldiers started when ...
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 ...
In 2014, Iain Harris had more than a vision of how to convert a 1942 Quonset hut — packed with rubbish from squatters and industrial relics of a former stained-glass factory — into a home. He also had ...
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 ...
A Quonset hut located at 1141 Main St. in Morro Bay is for sale for $1.7 million. Courtesy photo An unusual building just hit the real estate market in Morro Bay: a World War II-era Quonset hut.
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