They declined to be interviewed. Tompkins' father, World War II veteran Dwaine Santy, bought the 740-square-foot corrugated steel hut and the concrete below it for $6,000 in 1946 for his parents ...

as cheese storage, a school, a rabbit hutch, or an airport office for its 24-foot-wide Quonset hut. It followed in the spirit of experimentation encouraged by the manufacturer of the Quonset huts ...