Lockwood Hall - Pearl Harbor HI

City:: Pearl Harbor, HI
Site Type:: Military and Public Safety
New Deal Agencies:: Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
Quality of Information:: Moderate
Site Survival:: Extant

Description

Lockwood Hall, a.k.a. Building 662, originally constructed as the Bachelor Officer Quarters, was constructed in 1934 with Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) funds.

“Legend holds that during World War II, the concrete lanai was painted with a map of the Pacific that submariners used to plot strategy while Marines guarded the Lockwood entrances.”

P.W.A. Federal Project No. 193

Source notes

National Archives Record Group 135-SAR: Prints: Photographs rejected for use in the Photographic Report to the President: “Survey of the Architecture of Completed Projects of the PWA, 1939”; Box 23: Federal Folder.

https://militaryhonors.sid-hill.us/names/sweep.htm

Additional photos: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=Photograph:%20hi0440

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on April 18, 2017.