This town is awash in Quonset huts. Funny thing: You can live here for decades and not even notice. Like, most of us can remember a Q-hut on Riverside Avenue as you drive into town. But in fact, it’s a row of FOUR Q-huts (technically on Jefferson). See: (Okay, maybe you don’t see. Q1 is distant, [...]
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Quonset hut!
Posted in Quonset hut, Vernacular buildings, tagged 1940s, CSU, fort collins, franks trout farm, jefferson, kit house, Quonset hut, Quonset hut house, riverside, swetsville zoo, veterans village on August 13, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Basement houses
Posted in Modest or alternative living, Vernacular buildings, tagged 1920s, basement house, fort collins, history, interest-only mortgage, northern colorado, Vine street on August 9, 2008 | 21 Comments »
To be honest, when we had basement houses, they used to make me look away. As a girl coming from a part of the country that had no basements, I thought these roof-on-a-foundation homes reminded me too much of those legless men on skateboards in Tijuana. Interesting, really interesting. But you don’t want to gawk. So I [...]
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