Quonset hut

Isaac Kremer/ January 14, 2018/ / 0 comments

A prefabricated structure in the form of a barrel vault with flat ends and composed of corrugated sheet steel reinforced with steel ribs and finished on the interior with fiberboard; developed in 1941 for the U.S. Defense Department as part of the build-up prior to World War II; the first Quonset huts were built at Fort Davis, Quonset, Rhode Island. (Bucher, 1996)

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