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Naval facility where the huts were constructed during World War II. Using the semicylindrical British Nissen hut as a model, Quonset hut creators modified the Nissen design with wooden lining, insulation, and tongue and grove wooden flooring. A commemorative Quonset huts display located at the Seabee Museum and Memorial Park in Davisville, Rhode Island honors both the original Quonset huts factory in Davisville and the historic connection between Quonset huts and the Seabees. The genius of Quonset huts rests with their durability and mobility in the battlefield. The military needed something that could be quickly and easily assembled and taken apart for transport to the next location, sometimes every day.