A place for prefabricated steel buildings
They are named after Quonset Point, at the Davisville Naval Construction Battalion Center in Davisville, Rhode Island, where they were first manufactured. They were developed in 1941 for use by the US Army as multi utility lightweight structures that could be set up anywhere with minimum effort. Quonset huts were developed for this purpose, being invented and patented by Cyril R. B. Harding specifically for this purpose.