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		The quonset hut, whose semi-cylindrical form was copied from the British Nissen hut, by the end of the war differed considerably in construction from its prototype.
		As the necessity arose for adapting the huts to use as dispensaries, latrines, hospitals, and other special facilities, the details were worked out and checked by actually erecting units in the field at the proving ground, to determine the practicability of the design for field use.
		The new hut was larger, 20 feet by 48 feet, and lighter, using 3 ½ tons of steel instead of 4 tons.
	www.history.navy.mil /faqs/faq75-1.htm (765 words)

	BASE: The Quonset Hut
		The Quonset Hut was used in all theaters of WWII and subsequent conflicts.
		The Quonset Hut's predecessor was the British-designed Nissen Hut, a structure whose arched roof and upright sides required a system of cables and turnbuckles for support.
		The hut's proportions were later modified to increase interior space, resulting in the standardized Quonset or "Steel Arch Rib Hut," a 20' x 48' building weighing 3.5 tons.
	quonsetpoint.artinruins.com /quonset_hut.htm (824 words)

	Quonset hut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Quonset huts in front of Laguna Peak, Point Mugu, in 1946.
		A Quonset hut is a lightweight prefabricated structure of corrugated steel having a semicircular cross section.
		The design was based on the Nissen hut developed by the British during World War I.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quonset_hut (379 words)

	QuonsetNet - Why Use Quonset (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Unique to to the Quonset hut type steel building is you can leave one or both ends completely open without losing the integrity of the structure.
		Quonset hut steel buildings are generally available in two styles, First is the original old-fashioned "arch" steel building (the semi-circle shape) and second is a newer modified Quonset hut, which has straight walls and a curved roof.
		The modified Quonset hut buildings are becoming very popular in that they have eliminated one of the problems of the original Quonset huts wasted space, since the walls on the newer versions are completely straight.
	www.quonset.net /sections.php?section=why (470 words)

	No. 1278: Quonset Huts
		The Quonset hut skeleton was a row of semi-circular steel ribs covered with corrugated sheet metal.
		Around 170,000 Quonset huts were produced during the war -- enough to house the combined populations of Portland and Seattle.
		In 1948 the Sacramento Peak observatory was housed in Quonset huts.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1278.htm (546 words)

	Math Is Fun Forum / total square footage of a quonset hut
		A quonset hut would be half of a right solid cylinder.
		Also, it would probably make more sense if the hut's cross-section was a segment rather than a semi-circle, because then the height and width could both take the given values.
		The photos of a Quonset hut reveal that they are about a third of a circle, not a semi-circle.
	www.mathsisfun.com /forum/viewtopic.php?pid=12950 (617 words)

	From Battlefield to Bungalow: The Adaptable Architecture of the Quonset
		Based roughly on the British Nissen hut, the popular temporary shelter used in World War I, the Quonset capitalized on pre-fabrication--all of its parts were manufactured prior to shipping--and the development of a lightweight, residential steel.
		Although Stan-Steel, the company that manufactured the Quonset, had been promoting the hut's "flexibility for the industries of tomorrow" as early as 1943, it was only after the war that Quonsets became widely seen as a housing option.
		Chiei says that the Quonset seemed to embody the resourceful character of Alaska, a place where "what we get, we tend to hang on to." Although housing kits did replace the Quonset as the preferred prefab structure, it was a gradual transition.
	www.neh.gov /news/humanities/2005-11/quonset.html (1113 words)

	What are Quonset Huts?
		A quonset hut offers a sturdy, portable, easy to assemble, prefabricated steel building that looks like an aluminum can cut in half lengthwise and set on the ground.
		The original size of military quonset huts was 48 ft. (15 m) long and 20 ft. (6 m) wide with most of the floor space useable.
		Civilians continue to buy the straightforward huts from private manufacturers to install on their farm, orchard, estate, or small business as a storage facility, showroom, garage, temporary family housing, boathouse, or barn.
	www.wisegeek.com /what-are-quonset-huts.htm (352 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / The Instant Building
		The Quonset hut bore a close resemblance to the Nissen hut, which the British had developed for World War I and still used in the early part of World War II.
		The Quonset hut came with a one-inch tonguein-groove plywood floor supported on a raised metal framework, wood-fiber insulation between the outer shell and an inner lining of Masonite (pressed wood), and provisions for doors, windows, and chimneys.
		Most of the huts were painted with an olive drab camouflage finish, and from 1943 until the fall of 1944, the 20 came with four-foot overhangs at each end that protected its bulkheads from driving rain and sunlight.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/it/1998/3/1998_3_68.shtml (1649 words)

	Quonset Hut Buildings and Arch Steel Building Quonset Huts - AmericanDuroSpan.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Named after Quonset Point Military Base (where they were introduced), a Quonset hut is defined as any self-supporting structure, usually in an "arch" or curved shape.
		Unique to Quonset huts type steel buildings is that you can leave one or both ends completely open without losing the integrity of the structure.
		Buildings may look similar but the variables are a big factor in the quality and complexity of assembling Quonset huts.
	www.americandurospan.com /whyQuonset.shtml (479 words)

	BLDGBLOG: Quonset
		The Quonset hut was a portable, easy to construct architectural unit that allowed for the rapid deployment of forward bases in war zones.
		Quonsets are a great piece of design, which we can still learn from today.
		I'm old enough to remember seeing quonset huts in use for various purposes in many parts of Los Angeles when I was a kid.
	bldgblog.blogspot.com /2005/12/quonset.html (534 words)

	Kodiak Military History, The Quonset Hut
		Most of the huts in Kodiak were steel 16 by 36 feet with four foot side walls.
		On Noch Drive there are at least eight huts in use visible from the street and on the undeveloped part of the street there are another four abandoned ones.
		Quonset Hut by John Lienhard, at the University of Houston.
	www.kadiak.org /quonset/quonset.html (707 words)

	Quonset: Metal Living for a Modern Age
		These huts born of one crisis, served for two - and were never really recognized for either.
		Lest we let the story of those they served be testimony to their role in America History.
		Quonset Hut: Metal Living For A Modern Age tells the story of this unique architectural phenomena, from its birth during WWII as a mass-production shelter to its new status as an icon of American pragmatism, ingenuity, perseverance, and individuality.
	www.quonsethuts.org (152 words)

	The Anchorage Press - artreviewvol12ed32.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Instead, the huts were reborn as cheap housing for men still stationed here and for others looking for a fresh start.
		In those days the city's southern limit was at Ninth Avenue, however, which meant that Quonset huts continued to serve Anchorage not just as homes but also as churches, schools, hospitals, restaurants, civic buildings and more.
		KN Goodrich set out to depict a Quonset hut she once lived in, only to discover that it was no longer there; instead, her painting is about a hut's absence and a part of history lost.
	www.anchoragepress.com /newarchives/artreviewvol12ed32.html (686 words)

	Preservation Online: Story of the Week Archives: Tin-Can Treasures
		Surplus huts eased the post-war housing shortage in American cities and university campuses, where veterans studied under the GI Bill.
		Because the city has five Quonsets in an area that is ripe for redevelopment, McWilliams commissioned Adam Thomas of Historitecture, a consulting firm based in nearby Estes Park, Colo., to compile the report, which was published last summer.
		In an emergency rescue effort, the Seabee Museum had to relocate two of the 17 Quonset huts from Camp Endicott's Davisville Historic District, the original home of the Seabees, which was listed on the National Register in 1977.
	www.nationaltrust.org /magazine/archives/arch_story/111403.htm (1225 words)

	Quonset Hut book page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This book was created as a gift for a friend who was renovating an old World War II era quonset hut to use as a rental guest house in Michigan.
		This book was to be used as a guest book for the house and it duplicated the façade of the renovated metal hut on the front cover.
		A custom clamshell box was made for the book with a recessed arc design on the front that echoes the shape of the quonset hut, along with the town where it is located printed in gold foil.
	www.fineblankbooks.com /quonset_hut_book_page.htm (208 words)

	Alaska Design Forum
		Originally designed during the war for use as makeshift housing and temporary prefabricated shelters for soldiers and their families around the world, the seemingly ubiquitous Quonset hut housed a rapidly expanding nation in the 1940s and '50s both at work and in play.
		Quonset Hut: Metal Living for a Modern Age is a fascinating look at a surprising architectural sensation and offers a refreshing, revealing, and untold story of a true American icon.
		Quonset: Metal Living for a Modern Age is a publication of Princeton Architectural Press in association with the Alaska Design Forum, the Anchorage Museum of History and Art and the Anchorage Museum Association.
	www.alaskadesignforum.org /programs/publications-quonset.htm (176 words)

	The Three Types of Steel Buildings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Named after Quonset Point Military Base in Rhode Island (where they were first introduced) a quonset hut is usually defined as any self-supporting structure, usually in an "arch" or curved shape.
		To assemble a quonset building, you'll first lay out on the ground each individual section of the arch (each single piece of the arch is usually no more than 8-12 feet (3-4 meters) long.
		Quonset hut steel buildings are generally available in two different styles.
	www.steelbuildings.org /Building_Descriptions.html (2087 words)

	Recent Past Preservation Network
		Between 1946 and 1959 the Quonset Auditorium was known as the "Most Happening Place in Town" to both fl and white audiences in Bowling Green and its pink neon sign marked the north end of the city for those traveling the Dixie Highway..." more
		Read the history of the Quonset in his "Engines of Ingenuity" series of essays on the web.
		Aerial view of a quonset hut, 3350-3352 20th Street, San Francisco, CA, at the corner of 20th and Shotwell Streets, in the Mission industrial area.
	www.recentpast.org /types/quonset (623 words)

	Sacramento Peak: Quonset Hut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Quonset Huts were built in 1948 and 1949, after Sacramento Peak was approved as site for a new solar observatory.
		A quonset hut is made out of corrugated metal and looks a bit like a big metal tube that someone cut in half lengthwise and then laid on the ground.
		The quonset huts are not very well insulated against the cold, so they were not much fun to live in.
	www.nso.edu /PR/quonset.html (139 words)

	University's only remaining WWII-era Quonset hut to be razed (Aug 13, 2004)
		The last of 15 Quonset huts used to create temporary classroom, laboratory and library space on campus following World War II is scheduled to be razed starting Monday, Aug. 16.
		The demolition of Q15 was planned before a large gift for renovating and expanding the Education Building was announced in May. While the hut's removal could possibly open up some space for the Education Building project, much of the site will be turned into green space.
		Quonset huts, which were trademarked, were first made in Quonset, R.I. for the U.S. military's use as barracks, MASH units and other uses during World War II.
	www.news.wisc.edu /10036.html (316 words)

	Adak Ski Hill
		This is a picture of the Adak "Ski Lodge", a quonset hut built inside a quonset hut.
		During the late 70's and the early 80's the Mt. Moffett Ski Club operated the "lodge" as a skiers' warming hut or a fairly snug haven for the non-skiers.
		In the middle of nowhere there was a quonset hut all lit up with loud music coming from it.
	www.alsap.org /Adak/Adak.htm (2135 words)

	BASE: Introduction
		BASE is a photographic archive that seeks to document the last days of two adjacent Navy facilities located on the shores of Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay: the Quonset Point Naval Air Station and the Davisville Naval Construction Battalion Center.
		Because no redevelopment plan was ever finalized, many of the original buildings, roads and landscape arrangements of Quonset and Davisville remained remarkably intact over the years.
		As the mid-20th Century military incarnation of Quonset Point makes way for 21st Century commerce and life, BASE seeks to build a present-day portrait of this place whose importance would seem to exist only in its future and its past.
	quonsetpoint.artinruins.com /index2.htm (434 words)

	The HooK: NEWS- Quonset chic: New hut district in the works? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		If you tell Gib and Liz Akin their new house looks like a Quonset hut, they won't be offended.
		In fact, a Quonset was both a joke and the inspiration for the structure going up on Kelly Avenue.
		It's not a hangar, but it was inspired by the architecture of a Quonset hut.
	www.readthehook.com /Stories/2003/12/29/newsQuonsetChicNewHutDistr.html (732 words)

	mod the sims 2 - Quonset. Ten-hut your lifestyle! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Cheap, sturdy, and easy to build with local materials, the Quonset Hut is a darling of temporary military installations.
		Quonset is a simple building, which can be reconfigured for all sorts of uses.
		As drab as the army itself, Quonset features the most bland and unoriginal furnishings available, because luxury is for sissies!
	www.modthesims2.com /showthread.php?t=159828 (423 words)

	Amazon.com: Quonset Hut: Metal Living For The Modern Age: Books: Chris Chiel,Julie Decker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The quonset hut, that sliced tube of corrugated metal, was the answer.
		But in the midst of its almost tragic tale of extinction, the quonset hut has emerged as an unexpected icon of Americana and an oasis of architectural imagination.
		Quonset Hut tells the story of this unique architectural phenomena, from its birth during WWII as a mass-production shelter to its new status as an icon of American pragmatism, ingenuity, perseverance, and individuality.
	www.amazon.com /Quonset-Hut-Metal-Living-Modern/dp/1568985193 (1215 words)

	Nissen hut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Nissen hut is a prefabricated shelter that consists of a sheet of corrugated steel bent into half a cylinder and planted in the ground with its axis horizontal.
		The Quonset hut, based on the Nissen hut, was developed by the US Navy in World War 2.
		Because the Nissen hut has no weak right-angle bends between walls, roof and ground, its circular shape is good at withstanding earthquakes (see earthquake construction).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nissen_hut (217 words)

	www.planputnam.org
		The Quonset hut, which takes up almost all of the property, has been likened to a
		Historic Preservation, the Quonset hut is not eligible for inclusion on the state or
		Quonset huts were a common feature in the post-World War II era, said Allen
	www.planputnam.org /carmel/articles/jn_03_05_01_quonset.htm (675 words)

	Quonset: Metal Living for a Modern Age
		The Quonset hut is the portable building that has dominated this century.
		It may even be said that the Quonset hut is making a comeback, albeit with a facelift.
		As leading designers today are focusing on new, low-tech, prefabricated and portable structures, it seems not so preposterous to suggest that, if invented today, the Quonset hut would be a featured subject of many an architectural lecture series.
	www.quonsethuts.org /book/chapters.htm (363 words)

	RGJ.com - ‘Quonset Hut’ marks home of historical figure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		When rushing by the town of Truckee on I-80 it’s hard to miss the military-style metal Quonset hut by the highway.
		Turns out the Quonset hut and roofed-over areas are not memorials, but do mark important places in the history of Truckee and the area.
		On the site of the hut once stood the large and imposing white clapboard home of Charles Fayette McGlashan, a man of many talents.
	www.rgj.com /news/stories/lifestyle/969839013.php (901 words)

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