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" ...

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 ...