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Koke'e Design Guidelines

Historic Structures Report, Maui Jinsha Shrine

1950s Buildings in Waikiki and Honolulu

Historic Structures Report for 26 Museum Houses, Hickam Air Force Base

Historic Structures Report of the Bond Homestead and Old Girls School (with Bishop Museum)

Historic American Building Surveys

Cultural Resource Management Plans

Integrated Cultural Resource Management Plan for Pearl Harbor (with Helber, Hastert & Fee)





The guard house at Kolekole Pass, built in 1932 to protect the Lualualei Naval Magazine, where ammunition was stored.

Historic American Building Surveys (HABS)

The HABS program was originally established by Congress in the Historic Sites Act of 1935 as a Depression-era project for unemployed architects, historians, and photographers. Its mission is to properly record historic structures to better understand what they tell us of the past and to insure their recognition by future generations. Now HABS reports are typically done as part of a mitigation requirement. Sponsored by the National Park Service, the Library of Congress, and the American Institute of Architects, HABS is an archive of documentation that may include for each historic structure:

  • Measured drawings made at the time of documentation and showing accretions, alterations, and deletions to the original;
  • A written history that places the building in architectural and historical context; and
  • Large-format photographs, both historic and current

Mason Architects has prepared HABS reports for over 1,900 historic structures, the majority of them situated on U.S. military installations, but also including educational and industrial buildings.

   
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1995 measured drawing of the 1930 Golf Clubhouse at Fort Shafter, which records a unique example of pre-World-War-II recreational architecture at a military base in Hawaii. The building has since been demolished.

Photos: David Franzen; drawing: Katharine Slocumb

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Pearl Harbor Shipyard's 1915 pattern-making shop.

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Pearl Harbor's original power plant, built in 1913.
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A 1947 passenger shelter constructed of spare parts.


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