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    A Quonset hut /ˈkwɒnsɪt/ is a lightweight prefabricated structure of corrugated galvanized steel with a semi-circular cross-section. The design was developed...
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  • Quonset Hut Studio is the nickname given to Bradley Studios, an independent recording studio complex established in 1954 in Nashville, Tennessee by brothers...
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    the Second World War and was adapted as the similar Quonset hut in the United States. A Nissen hut is made from a sheet of metal bent into half a cylinder...
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    Naval Construction Battalions known as the Seabees. Quonset Point also gave its name to the Quonset hut, a standardized temporary structure used by the U...
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    widely known from the Quonset hut, which was first manufactured there. Quonset is an Algonquian word meaning "small, long place". Quonset Point was the location...
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    Jamesway hut – a variation of a Nissen hut Romney hut – a variation of a Nissen hut Quonset hut – a type of Nissen hut of lightweight prefabricated structure...
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  • Station Quonset Point Quonset State Airport Rhode Island Route 403, signed as Quonset Freeway Quonset Glacier, a glacier in Antarctica Quonset hut, a military...
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    The Jamesway hut is a portable and easy-to-assemble hut, designed for polar weather conditions. This version of the Quonset hut was created by James Manufacturing...
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    by 1950 which necessitated a larger meeting space. A military surplus Quonset hut was purchased from Camp Forrest by W. T. Reagan who set it up in Livingston...
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    Within the town is Quonset Point, location of the former Naval Air Station Quonset Point, known for the invention of the Quonset hut, as well as the historic...
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    business led Behr to move the company's operations to an 800 square foot Quonset hut in Pasadena, California in 1948. The business outgrew this facility as...
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  • Balgownie Migrant Workers Hostel (category Quonset huts)
    extensively used in military activities. The British Nissen Hut was copied by Americans in the Quonset hut and evolved to become quite different by the end of...
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    Rodger Young Village (category Quonset huts)
    Aerodrome, in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, the Village consisted of 750 Quonset huts, temporary buildings made of corrugated steel, which were intended to...
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    Gazebo (category Huts)
    Hopper hut Iris hut Nissen hut Quonset hut Jamesway hut Romney hut Rondavel Slab hut Twynham hut Wilderness hut Alpine club hut Mountain hut Winter room...
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    military and government. The semi-circular metal Nissen hut of World War I was revived as the Quonset hut. The years immediately after the war saw the development...
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    Zone is a re-creation of a Pacific island battlefield, and includes a Quonset Hut, a PT boat and base, Japanese tank, palm trees, and machine gun placements...
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    Nomadic structures – Yaranga, bender tent Temporary structures – Quonset hut, Nissen hut, prefabricated home Underground – Underground living, rock-cut...
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    Seabee Museum and Memorial Park (category Quonset huts)
    seven vintage Quonset huts (saved from the demolition of nearby Camp Endicott), and the original Gate Seabee statue, and the non-profit Quonset Air Museum...
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  • 1954, Bradley established Bradley Studios, later commonly known as the Quonset Hut Studio, which was the first music industry-related business in what is...
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    market but merchants quickly pooled their funds to purchase a war surplus Quonset hut to house North Market. Though the merchants bought the building, the...
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    after which they held the two men for a period of three weeks in a Quonset hut in Westpoort, a part of Amsterdam, demanding a 35 million guilders ransom...
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    undeveloped. Vacant land was used to provide temporary housing, using Quonset hut structures, to returning World War II veterans. During the 1950s the...
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    A World War II Quonset hut used to lodge members of the military...
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    Camp Endicott (category Quonset huts)
    Construction Battalion Center, Davisville) was also the birthplace of the Quonset hut. These semi-cylindrically shaped, prefabricated, portable buildings were...
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    Weteringplantsoen [nl] in Amsterdam. They were detained for three weeks in a Quonset hut, belonging to Boellaard's wood manufacturing company, at business park...
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    designated GMT-345). Hummer dealership buildings featured an oversized half Quonset Hut style roof, themed to the Hummer brand's military origins. By 2006, the...
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  • beliefs. The interview takes place on a set replicating the air-strip and Quonset hut from Twelve O'Clock High and they watch clips from these films on a projector...
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  • of his confinement happened on location; production found an existing Quonset hut in downtown Albuquerque and built a slightly smaller scale cage next...
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    Beck's death in 1956, recorded mainly at Bradley Studios Studio B (the Quonset hut studio) in Nashville, which later became Columbia's Studio B. Law's productions...
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    Col Edgar Frank Brawn of the Royal Engineers. B hut Dymaxion deployment unit Nissen hut Quonset hut Rubb hall Tin tabernacle, prefabricated churches...
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