Metal garage A world to learn
The Seabee Museum and Memorial Park in Davisville, Rhode Island, houses a Quonset huts display to honor both the original Quonset huts factory in Davisville, Rhode Island and the historical connection between the Seabees and Quonset huts. The genius of Quonset huts rests with their durability and mobility in the battlefield. The military needed a structure that could be easily and quickly assembled and disassembled for transport to different battlefield locations, sometimes on a daily basis. Quonset huts made ideal mobile and lightweight housing and storage structures and gradually evolved to accommodate uses as bakeries, showers, latrines, dental offices, and isolation wards. Their initial design presented problems with these expanded uses and was subsequently modified from its original sixteen feet by thirty six feet size with wall curve beginning immediately at its floor to a structure with sidewalls and multiple interior designs.