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" ...

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 ...

From war relic to blueprint for climate-resilient communities. The Quonset hut story did not end in 1945. Its DNA lives on in modern refugee shelters, emergency clinics, and tiny houses that echo its ...