- City:
- Honolulu, HI
- Site Type:
- Federal Facilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Treasury Department, Federal & Military Operations
- Completed:
- 1934
- Designers:
- C. W. Dickey, Herbert C. Cayton
Description
Completed in 1934, the historic United States Immigration Office facility in Honolulu was constructed with Treasury Department funds. The complex, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, [ as per the NRHP nomination form] “consists of/five buildings: administration building (most visible and important), detention building (to the right and rear of the administration building, used to detain those immigrants waiting for proper clearance to enter Hawaii), .lounging shed (an open pavilion directly to the rear of administration building), garage and waiting shed (to the right of the administration building) and the gardener’s cottage (no longer standing).”
Source notes
National Archives: Record Group 121-BS: Records of the Public Buildings Service: Completion views of federal buildings (prints) alphabetically by state and thereunder by city, to 1966; Box 20. https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/73000664 NRHP text: https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/24297462-414c-4ba0-a5c1-c5240a560ddd NRHP images: https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/e7002ee0-63f6-4234-a6fe-8f9f43e6bbcf/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Immigration_Office_(Honolulu,_Hawaii)Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on August 4, 2017.
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