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Maalaea Airport Spur – Maui HI

Date added: June 25, 2017

The National Industrial Recovery Administration awarded the “United States Public Works project no. NRH-13-B, Maalaea Airport Spur, for the sum of $25,574.76.” The airport was closed permanently in 1939.

Kawaihae Road – Hawaii HI

Date added: June 25, 2017

The National Industrial Recovery Administration awarded the “Federal-aid project no. F. A. P. 11-B and United States Public Works project no. NRH-ll-C, Kawaihae Road, for the sum of $251,579” for the construction and improvement of the Kawaihae Road on the island… read more

Hawaii Belt Road – Hawaii HI

Date added: June 25, 2017

The National Industrial Recovery Administration awarded the Federal-aid project no. F. A. P. 14-A for the construction and improvement of the Hawaii Belt Road, (Kapehu and Kaaluu Bridges) for the sum of $75,880.61. The road runs along the coast of,… read more

Kunia Road Construction and Improvements – Oahu HI

Date added: June 24, 2017

“[…] United States Public Works project no. NRH-16-A, known as the ‘Kunia Road’, for the sum of $388,585.26. The Kunia Road runs from Schofield Barracks to the Ewa-Waianae Road, a distance of 7.81 miles, and is a road long wanted… read more

Kamehameha Highway Construction and Improvements – Oahu HI

Date added: June 24, 2017

“United States Public Works project no. NRH-9-A, a section of Kamehameha Highway known as the ‘Puuloa-Aiea Cut-off’ for the sum of $387,099.84; United States Public Works project no. NRH-7-C (reopened) and no. NRH-7-D (reopened), a section of Kamehameha Highway, for… read more

Haleakala Road – Maui HI

Date added: June 23, 2017

“The construction of the Haleakala Road on the island of Maui, known as Federal-aid project no. 5-B, was completed at a cost of $498,508.72.”

Kaunakakai Harbor – Molokai HI

Date added: June 22, 2017

The Army Corps of Engineers, the Public Works Administration, and the National Industrial Recovery Administration funded and conducted improvement operations in the Kaunakakai Harbor on Molokai, between 1933 and 1934. The work consisted of the “dredging of a harbor basin about 1,500… read more

Port Allen Harbor – Kauai HI

Date added: June 22, 2017

The Army Corps of Engineers, the Public Works Administration, and the National Industrial Recovery Administration funded and conducted improvement operations in the Port Allen Harbor between 1934 and 1935. The work consisted of creating a 1,200 foot “rubble-mound breakwater,” and dredging the “harbor… read more

Honolulu Harbor Improvements – Honolulu HI

Date added: June 22, 2017

The Army Corps of Engineers, the Public Works Administration, and the National Industrial Recovery Administration funded and conducted improvement operations in the Honolulu Harbor between 1934 and 1935. The work consisted of the enlargement of the “entrance channel to 40 feet… read more

Kuakini Street Bridge (Nu’uanu Stream) – Honolulu HI

Date added: June 12, 2017

Living New Deal believes this bridge, which carries North Kuakini Street over the Nu’uanu Stream, was constructed with federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds—in conjunction to a nearby bridge over Waiolani Stream—in 1934.

Date Street Bridge – Honolulu HI

Date added: June 12, 2017

The bridge carrying Date Street across the Manoa-Palolo Canal (itself a W.P.A. project) was constructed by the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) in 1937. Two imprinted stamps identify the bridge as W.P.A.

Ala Moana Park Landscape Design – Honolulu HI

Date added: April 26, 2017

In 1932, the city government began grading work and site preparations on the grounds of the Ala Moana park with the help of territorial relief funds. But it was the advent of federal assistance in 1933 that expanded the scope of… read more

Territorial Hospital – Käne‘ohe HI

Date added: April 26, 2017

The PWA built several facilities for the Territorial Hospital complex. Initially, the hospital accommodated patients from the Oahu Insane Asylum, founded by King Kamehameha IV in 1866 on the Iolani Palace grounds in Honolulu.1 The Territorial Hospital expanded and later became the Hawaii State… read more