- City:
- Honolulu, HI
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Hospitals and Clinics
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1939
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
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 of the PWA’s non-federal projects expenditure for the Territory of Hawaii for 1938-1939. Leahi Home was renamed Leahi Hospital in 1942, and it is still in service today.
Source notes
Hawaii State Archives, GOV8-18, U.S. Departments, Emergency Relief – Works Progress Administration. Index to the Honolulu Advertiser & Star-Bulletin, 1929-1969, accessed June 25, 2017.Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on July 1, 2017.
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