Harry K. Stewart Sites

The Public Works Administration (PWA) funded new construction or improvement work for the Kawailoa Training School for Girls (also known as Girls’ Industrial School) in Kailua on the North Shore of Oahu. The PWA grant amounted to $27,632. The work was carried out in 1938. The project, listed as Docket No. TH-1034-F, was part of the PWA’s non-federal projects expenditures for the Territory of Hawaii for 1938-1939. The school's gymnasium was built in 1938, while the rest of the structures were built between 1927 and 1929. Today the facility serves as the Olomana Youth Center, part of the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility​ in Kailua. A...

Honokaa Public Library was constructed as a Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) project during the Great Depression. Construction is sometimes mis-attributed to the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.), as it is on a plaque on the building. The library, which was designed by Harry K. Stewart, was completed in 1936. The building used the same design as the Molokai Public Library. PWA Docket No. T. H. 1038-B

"The Molokai Public Library (1937), designed by Harry K. Stewart, was one of a number of public buildings in Hawai'I to be built thanks to the PWA. Another PWA project, the Honoka'a Library on the island of Hawai'i used the same plan." PWA Docket No. T. H. 1038-A

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 the Territory of Hawaii for 1938-1939. The building, also known as Hale Auhau, which translates as “tax house,” served as the headquarters of the Department of Taxation. Designed by Henry Stuart, architect for the Territorial Department of Public Works, the building is representative of the Mission Revival or California Mission style. Architects of that era designed numerous public buildings in...

"Graceful and handsomely proportioned, the Territorial Circuit Court Building (1938) in Lihu'e was designed by Harry K. Stewart. This PWA project beautifully integrates the Hawaiian and Spanish Mission revival styles."