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" ...

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 ...

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 ...