Kau High and Pahala Elementary School, from southwest
Description
The Public Works Administration (PWA) funded new construction or improvement work for the school in Pahala, on the Big Island. The PWA grant amounted to $15,930, and the work was carried out in 1938. The project, listed as Docket No. TH-1070-F, was part of the PWA’s non-federal projects expenditure for the Territory of Hawaii for 1938-1939. Located in a rural plantation town, the Kau High and Pahala Elementary School consists of several classroom buildings with large lanai and corrugated metal roofs.
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Kau High and Pahala Elementary School, from east
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Kau High and Pahala Elementary School, from northeast
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Source: National Register of Historic Places; Historic Hawaii Foundation,(https://historichawaii.org/2014/01/27/kau-high-and-pahala-elementary-school/#iLightbox[gallery2080]/0).
Kau High and Pahala Elementary School
Source: National Register of Historic Places; Historic Hawaii Foundation,(https://historichawaii.org/2014/01/27/kau-high-and-pahala-elementary-school/#iLightbox[gallery2080]/0).
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Kau High and Pahala Elementary School
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Kau High and Pahala Elementary School
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Kau High and Pahala Elementary School
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Music Pavilion - Kau High and Pahala Elementary School
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Classroom Building - Kau High and Pahala Elementary School
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Duplex, 1937 - Kau High and Pahala Elementary School
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Gymnasium, 1935 - Kau High and Pahala Elementary School
Source notes
Hawaii State Archives, GOV8-18, U.S. Departments, Emergency Relief – Works Progress Administration.
Kau High and Pahala Elementary School, Historic Hawaii Foundation, accessed June 25, 2017.
Project originally submitted by Brent McKee on June 30, 2017.
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