Address
1001 Dillingham Blvd., Honolulu, 96817
TMK
(1) 1-5-015: 008
SHPD Historic Site Number
Not Yet Available
Historic Designations:
Hawai‘i Register of Historic Places
Abstract
The grouping of six Matson Line Warehouse Quonset huts is located on Dillingham Boulevard in the lwilei/Kapalama area of Honolulu. They are significant under Criterion A as a rare surviving example of the post-war practice of adapting WWII era Quonset huts for civilian, contemporary use. Matson Navigation Company, the primary carrier of freight between Hawai’i and the Pacific Coast of the U.S. mainland, and major shaper and promoter of the development of tourism in Hawai’i, utilized the Quonset huts as warehouse structures. The property is also significant at the local level under Criterion Casa rare, extant grouping of architecturally distinctive military Quonset huts. They exhibit the notable design of a prefabricated and portable, semi-cylindrical arched building, with metal framing and sheathed in corrugated metal.
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