Hayden Wetzel is a retired federal worker with a passion for local history and a habit of walking around his Brookland neighborhood in search of interesting old stuff. One of his favorite finds is a ...

KODIAK, Alaska — A Kodiak woman who has lived in a Bells Flats Quonset hut for more than four decades is preparing to say goodbye to the home in which she holds record. After arriving as a hippie to ...

Q: After World War II, civilians had access to what the Seabees called Quonset huts. These were quickly assembled arch-shaped metal buildings that could be used for everything from offices to ...

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" ...

Emerging now on an empty Detroit lot is a taste of a unique housing project designed by a Los Angeles architect with world-class credentials and financed by a New York City developer and entrepreneur.

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, ...

Living in a U-shaped structure with a corrugated metal exterior, Detroiter Courtney Henriette doesn’t just hear the rain when it falls. She can feel it. “Because the walls are so thin, when it’s ...

Few episodes in Alaska's history have had a more profound impact in shaping the territory's development and character than World War II. Preceding the war, Alaska was an isolated wilderness populated ...

Detroit's latest innovation in housing and work space development involves steel, dome-shaped structures known as Quonset huts, a seemingly novel idea, but: They've been here before. Janice Carter, ...

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 ...

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 ...