A Quonset hut is a lightweight prefabricated structure of corrugated iron having a semicircular cross section.
The name comes from their site of first manufacture, QuonsetPoint, at the Davisville Naval Construction Battalion Center in Davisville (a village located within the town of North Kingstown, Rhode Island).
This structure in Buckeye, Colorado was augemented with a fireplace to serve as a farm cottage.
QuonsetPoint's protected location in the heart of Narragansett Bay, and its easy access to the Atlantic Ocean, played a strong role in its selection as the site for this new facility.
QuonsetPoint is no more, buried beneath the asphalt at the southern end of runway 16-34, the base's main runway.
Quonset's array of structural mammoths and oddities is compelling in part because of the gesture each makes toward use, a gesture whose meaning becomes estranged as these once-useful buildings slide into decay.
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