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  2. Quonset hut - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. Department of Energy continues to utilize Quonset huts as supporting structures (fabrication and machine shops, warehouses, etc.) at the Nevada National Security Site. The repurposed huts were common enough that Sherwin-Williams introduced a line of paint called "Quon-Kote" specifically designed to stick to the metal structures. [3]

  3. List of buildings at Ohio State University - Wikipedia

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    The State of Ohio [91] Ohio Union 1951 2007 Student Union The State of Ohio Replaced by a new building of the same name Rickly House 1856 1949 University President's Residence The Rickly Family, the former occupants of the house before it was purchased by Ohio State [92] Vivian Hall 1951 2011 Laboratory Building

  4. Nissen hut - Wikipedia

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    A Nissen hut is a prefabricated steel structure originally for military use, especially as barracks, made from a 210° portion of a cylindrical skin of corrugated iron. It was designed during the First World War by the Canadian-American-British engineer and inventor Major Peter Norman Nissen .

  5. Hut - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Elijah E. Myers - Wikipedia

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    Elijah E. Myers (December 29, 1832 – March 5, 1909) was a leading architect of government buildings in the latter half of the 19th century, and the only architect to design the capitol buildings of three U.S. states, the Michigan State Capitol, the Texas State Capitol, and the Colorado State Capitol. [1]

  7. Timeline of Detroit - Wikipedia

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    The officers were later convicted and sentenced to prison. The convictions were overturned, but the officers were retried and convicted of lesser charges. 1993 - One Detroit Center skyscraper built. [17] [36] 1994 - Nancy Kerrigan is attacked in the Cobo Arena shortly before the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, which were taking place in ...

  8. History of construction - Wikipedia

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    The most common type of building during the Iron Age the present-day United Kingdom were roundhouses. These were made from stone or wooden posts joined by wattle-and-daub panels topped with a conical thatched roof. Archeologists presume that the walls were made of timber planking using a side ax to remove excess timber. [20]

  9. History of Ohio State University - Wikipedia

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    Ohio State began accepting graduate students in the 1880s, with the university awarding its first master's and doctoral degrees in 1886 and 1890 respectively. 1891 saw the founding of Ohio State's law school, the Moritz College of Law. It would later acquire colleges of medicine, dentistry, optometry, veterinary medicine, commerce, and ...