Preserving Historic Sites on Military Bases
Marine Corps Base Hawaii Environmental Division welcomed their historic preservation partners for annual meetings and site visits to discuss the implementation status and progress on various preservation agreements with a look-ahead on planning and resource management issues.
Historic Hawaii joined partners from Marine Corps’ cultural resources office, National Trust for Historic Preservation, National Park Service and Hawaii State Historic Preservation Division on this site visit to an archaeological site in the Aviation Historic District at the Kaneohe Bay base.
Other site visits included a stop at Hangar 101 in the National Historic Landmark that included discussion of ways to demarcate and protect a bomb crater from December 7, 1941; a walk-through of a new Bachelor Enlisted Quarters building in the Administration Historic District to confirm compliance with the previous planning and design guidelines; and a check on materials longevity and appearance for a special project in the Heleloa Housing District.
In attendance from left to right in photo above: Wendy Wichman, Marine Corp Base Hawaii Cultural Resources; June Cleghorn, Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Cultural Resources Manager; Betsy Merritt, Deputy General Counsel, National Trust for Historic Preservation; Elaine Jackson-Retondo, Preservation Partnerships and History Program Manager, National Park Service; Tania Gumapac-McGuire, architectural historian, Hawai‘i State Historic Preservation Division. Photographer: Kiersten Faulkner, executive director, Historic Hawai‘i Foundation.