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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.
Only the fire hydrants remain where the gravel streets used to be. Occasional requests by children and grandchildren to show them where mom and dad or grandma and grandpa lived when they were very young had to be limited to a short walk through the picnic grounds until a USGS aerial survey map of 1951 was located and gave evidence to this long ...
A hut is a small dwelling, which may be constructed of various local materials. Huts are a type of vernacular architecture because they are built of readily available materials such as wood, snow, ice, stone, grass, palm leaves, branches, clay, hides, fabric, or mud using techniques passed down through the generations.
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The series follows the lives of the firefighters and paramedics working at the Chicago Fire Department at the firehouse of Engine Company 51, Truck Company 81, Rescue Squad Company 3, Ambulance 61 and Battalion 25, starring Jesse Spencer as Lieutenant Matthew Casey, Taylor Kinney as Lieutenant Kelly Severide, Yuri Sardarov as firefighter Brian ...
Nissen hut houses survive in Hvalfjörður, Iceland. They were built to house naval personnel during the war. Nissen huts were used as US military forces accommodation at Mount Panther, Northern Ireland, during the Second World War. However, the adaptation of the semi-cylindrical hut to non-institutional uses was not popular.
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Chickees are also known as chickee huts, stilt houses, or platform dwellings. The chickee style of architecture— palmetto thatch over a bald cypress log frame—was adopted by Seminoles during the Second (1835–1842) and Third (1855–1858) Seminole Wars as U.S. troops pushed them deeper into the Everglades and surrounding territory.