File:GROUNDS - U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Headquarters, Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet, Intersection of Halawa and Makalapa Drives, Makalapa Administration Area, Pearl City, HABS HI,2-PEHA,1-8.tif

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GROUNDS - U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Headquarters, Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet, Intersection of Halawa and Makalapa Drives, Makalapa Administration Area, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI
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Nimitz, Chester W
Jackson-Retondo, Elaine, transmitter
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GROUNDS - U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Headquarters, Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet, Intersection of Halawa and Makalapa Drives, Makalapa Administration Area, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI
Depicted place Hawaii; Honolulu County; Pearl City
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS HI,2-PEHA,1-8
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: Facility 250 is significant as the headquarters of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, who was both the Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet and the Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas during WWII. This building, which lies outside the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark (NHL) boundary, was designated an individual NHL in 1987. ... The building is also significant since it displays two distinctive types and periods of construction. The lower three floors were of concrete construction (with the basement and first floor having 4'-thick walls), while the upper stories, added in 1943-44, were built of wood. This reflects the two periods of WWII construction; the bombproof original portion shows the defensive construction of the early war years, and the wooden addition if representative of the period when the U.S. was on the offensive and had no fear of an attack by the Japanese...
  • Survey number: HABS HI-32
  • Building/structure dates: 1942 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1943-1944 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: before 1970 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1978 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1984 Subsequent Work
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 87001295.
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/hi0022.photos.058154p
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Object location21° 23′ 49.99″ N, 157° 58′ 23.99″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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