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Hide Search OptionsDate added: July 2, 2017; Modified: July 13, 2017
The Public Works Administration (PWA) funded new construction or improvement work for a hospital in Kona, on the Big Island. The PWA grant amounted to $47,700, and the work was carried out in 1938. The project, listed as Docket No…. read more
Date added: July 3, 2017; Modified: July 3, 2017
A Public Works Administration grant of $97,795 funded new construction work on the Tax Office building in Honolulu. The work was underway in 1938. Listed as Docket No. TH-1035-DS, the project was part of the PWA’s non-federal projects expenditure for… read more
Date added: August 1, 2012; Modified: July 2, 2017
“Civilian Conservation Corps Camp in Koke’e State Park is located at Hawaii Route 550, in Waimea, on the island of Kauai, in the U.S. state of Hawaii. It was built in 1935 with lumber that was put into the saltwater… read more
Date added: July 1, 2017
The Public Works Administration (PWA) funded new construction or improvement work for the Makapala School, near Niulii and Kapaau, on the Big Island. The PWA grant amounted to $6,750, and the work was carried out in 1938. The project, listed… read more
Date added: July 1, 2017; Modified: July 1, 2017
The Public Works Administration (PWA) funded new construction or improvement work for the Leahi Home in Honolulu. The PWA grant amounted to $112,500, and the work was carried out in 1938. Listed as Docket No. TH-1085-F, the project was part… read more
Date added: June 29, 2017; Modified: June 29, 2017
The Public Works Administration (PWA) funded new construction or improvement work for a school in Halaula, on the Big Island. The PWA grant amounted to $13,500. The work was carried out in 1938. Listed as Docket No. TH-1068-F, the project… read more
Date added: June 29, 2017; Modified: June 29, 2017
The Public Works Administration (PWA) funded new construction or improvement work for waterworks projects in Honolulu. The PWA grant amounted to $366,750. The work was carried out in 1938. The project, listed as Docket No. TH-1063-F, was part of the… read more
Date added: June 29, 2017
The Public Works Administration (PWA) funded new construction or improvement work for the Extension of Piikoi Street in Honolulu. The PWA grant amounted to $38,700. The work was carried out in 1938. The project, listed as Docket No. TH-1050-F, was… read more
Date added: June 28, 2017; Modified: June 28, 2017
The Public Works Administration (PWA) funded additions and improvement work for the Boys’ School (also known as the Waiale’e Home for Wayward Boys or the Waiale’e Industrial School for Boys) on the North Shore of Oahu. The PWA grant amounted to $61,364…. read more
Date added: June 27, 2017; Modified: June 28, 2017
A Public Works Administration (PWA) grant of $92,224 funded new construction and improvement work on a harbor fuel oil line system for the Honolulu Harbor, under the direction of the Board of Harbor Commissioners of the Territory of Hawaii. The… read more
Date added: March 16, 2015; Modified: June 28, 2017
Between 1935 and 1941, the WPA contributed $127,000 towards work at Port Allen Airport, mostly runway expansion and improvement (“clearing, grading, and paving,” Port Allen Airport History). At its peak, in 1947, the airport served 37,000 passengers and provided a… read more
Date added: August 7, 2012; Modified: June 28, 2017
Honolulu’s Roosevelt High School was constructed in 1935 with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. P.W.A. Docket No. 2633 T. H.
Date added: June 26, 2017; Modified: June 28, 2017
The Federal Emergency Relief Administration funded the construction of the Roosevelt High School athletic facilities: “Another major operation concluded during the year consisted of the completion of a concrete stadium and the Roosevelt High School athletic field with facilities for… read more
Date added: August 3, 2012; Modified: June 27, 2017
From a Department of Land and Natural Resources calendar: “The Makiki-Manoa Pumping Station (1935), designed by architect Hart Wood and the landscape architecture firm of Thompson & Thompson, was one of a number of Honolulu Board of Water Supply improvements… read more
Date added: June 26, 2017; Modified: June 27, 2017
The Civilian Conservation Corps built a camp on Molokai for 36 enrollees. The expenditure was $23,545.48. The CCC worked in forested areas, known today as the Palaau State Park, in the vicinity of this camp: “In 1936, a nursery was… read more