War Shelters, Short-Lived Yet Living on

Archival photo of the Dymaxion Deployment Unit prototype assembled in Washington in 1941. Courtesy of the Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller
Archival photo of the Dymaxion Deployment Unit prototype assembled in Washington in 1941. Courtesy of the Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

“Camp Evans, a decommissioned Army base in Wall Township, N.J., is frozen in midcentury, its brick administration buildings and boarded-up Quonset huts on hold from World War II. Fred Carl, 59, a former high school science teacher and the unofficial keeper of the site, leads a visitor to other throwbacks from that era: a collection of corrugated metal houses with porthole windows and conical roofs. They look like alien habitations dropped from the sky.

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