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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 ...
Quonset huts at Point Mugu, California, in 1946 with Laguna Peak in the background. A Quonset hut / ˈ k w ɒ n s ɪ t / is a lightweight prefabricated structure of corrugated galvanized steel with a semi-circular cross-section. The design was developed in the United States based on the Nissen hut introduced by the British during World War I.
Similar-shaped hut types were developed as well, notably the larger Romney hut in the UK and the Quonset hut in the United States. All types were mass-produced in the thousands. The Nissen hut was used for a wide range of functions; apart from accommodation, they functioned as churches and bomb stores among other uses. [7]
The area is used for grazing cattle and features a low thick grass cover and scatters of large pebbles and cobbles of local stone. The area contains the remains of at least two "huts" - one evidenced by the stone alignments to the southwest of a lime tree grove with the other located immediately northeast. [1]
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Due to population increases in many areas, portable buildings are sometimes brought in to schools to provide relief from overcrowding. Portable classroom buildings often include two classrooms separated by a partition wall and a toilet. Portable buildings can also serve as a portable car garage [3] or a storage unit for larger items. Businesses ...
Jamesway hut at Camp Raven station in Greenland. The Jamesway hut is a portable and easy-to-assemble hut, designed for polar weather conditions. This version of the Quonset hut was created by James Manufacturing Company of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. A Jamesway hut had wooden ribs and a type of insulated fabric covering then used by the Army Air ...
Hut in a village of Tebat Karai District Hut in farm outside Indian village Hut in Kambalakonda eco park Visakhapatnam A hut in Tharparkar, Sindh An old hunting hut in Utajärvi, Finland. Huts are used by shepherds when moving livestock between seasonal grazing areas such as mountainous and lowland pastures (transhumance).