A World War II-era hangar and two prefabricated steel structures — known as Quonset huts — are one step closer to being repurposed in a Goleta business ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Central Coast family is transforming a historic Morro Bay building into a boutique hotel. In 2023, local hoteliers John and Joan ...

As they say, one door closes and another opens. A Lewiston design firm, Shelter +7 Inc., has had a long-term working relationship with a West Gardiner builder who now wants to dial back his workload.

The Quonset hut, the familiar hemispherical building of corrugated metal, was developed for the Navy in 1941 as a lightweight, easily constructed shelter. It gets its name for the site of its first ...

In Detroit, one developer has turned Quonset huts—better known for their use on farms and military bases—into affordable, efficient housing. On a half-vacant block a few miles outside of downtown ...

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 ...

The Westerner is a mercantile that sells a variety of goods. It's located in a building owner Rod Cervera said was built in 1953. KERNVILLE, Calif. (KERO) — A new store is taking up space that has a ...

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 ...

When Amy and Jeremy Gill bought two tiny Austin Avenue lots in the Woodbine area of Nashville, they knew they wanted to create an artist community there. The husband and wife duo's collective skillset ...

A building formerly owned by Kim Blickenstaff's KDB Group in Peoria Heights has been sold. Roof Tiger, a Peoria Heights-based roofing company, purchased the Quonset Hut building at 4312 N. Prospect ...