Steel garage A new world
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 successfully addressed the need for lightweight and movable storage and housing and gradually evolved into structures that could be used 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. Following the war, the military was left with a surplus of Quonset huts and sold them to the public for one thousand dollars per unit. Universities purchased them for student housing, and some returning soldiers even purchased them for their own personal housing.