Address
1514 Makalapa Drive, Honolulu, HI 96818
SHPD Historic Site Number
Not Yet Available
Historic Designations:
Hawai‘i Register of Historic Places
Abstract
This property, also known as facility 1514, has three distinct areas: the synagogue, the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society, and the Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Therapy clinic. The building is significant at the national level under National Register Criterion A as the first synagogue building built by the United States Navy on a military base specifically as a place of Jewish worship. It is also significant under Criterion C as the work of prominent architect, Vladimir Ossipoff. The building illustrates Ossipoff’s use of adapting the building to the site, optimizing natural light and creating a flowing indoor-outdoor relationship as seen in the open courtyard protected by a sky-lighted roof of open-ended vaults, flat roof with multiple barrel arches and rounded concrete forms.
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