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The first Quonset huts were manufactured in 1941 when the United States Navy needed an all-purpose, lightweight building that could be shipped anywhere and assembled without skilled labor. [2] They could be assembled in a day by a 10-person team using only hand tools.
The George Herbert Jones Laboratory is an academic building at 5747 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, on the main campus of the University of Chicago.Room 405 of the building was named a National Historic Landmark in 1967; it was the site where plutonium, the first man-made element, was isolated and measured.
The student enrollment was 18,813 in 1958-58 and was predicted to reach 24,500 by 1965 and 34,000 by 1970. The university's Building Committee was quoted by The News-Gazette, saying, "The University of Illinois has not added a foot of space for organized student activities and recreation since the Illini Union Building was constructed in 1940 ...
Page Brothers Building: Chicago: 1872 Commercial The building features Chicago's last remaining cast iron façade Haskell-Barker-Atwater Buildings: Chicago: 1875-1877 Commercial Harker Hall: Urbana: 1877 College building Oldest building in use on the campus of the University of Illinois: Manhattan Building: Chicago: 1889–1891 Commercial
Quonset hut – a type of Nissen hut of lightweight prefabricated structure of corrugated steel; Pratten hut – a prefabricated building generally used in schools for classrooms in the UK after World War 2. Scout hut – term given for the buildings used as the meeting place of members of The Scout Association world-wide.
In addition to living in caves and using rock shelters, the first buildings were simple tents, like the Inuit's tupiq, and huts. Huts were built as protection from the elements like pit-houses, and as fortifications for safety like crannog. Their shelters were built self-sufficiently by their inhabitants rather than by specialist builders, using
In the mid-1960s, most of the Hull House buildings were demolished for the construction of the University of Illinois Chicago. The original building and one additional building (which has been moved 200 yards (182.9 m)) [6] survive today. On June 23, 1965, it was designated as a U.S. National Historic Landmark. [7]
The University of Chicago's Hyde Park campus began in 1890 through the efforts of the American Baptist Education Society and oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, who later called it "the best investment I ever made." [2] The University of Chicago held its first classes there on October 1, 1892. [3]