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Fire Stations of Oahu

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All seven fire stations are box-shaped, two-story structures, with engine bays on the ground floor and dormitories upstairs. All have drying towers, which were required for the cloth-covered rubber hoses of the era in which they were built, but which also serve as visual landmarks and decorative
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in 1914 set the stage for another building boom, as both tourism and migration helped fuel rapid growth during the 1920s. Many nationally known architects opened offices in the islands, and their designs often reflected a California regional style heavily influenced by the work of
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on Kapahulu Avenue followed a similar model when it was built in 1927, but it was extensively remodeled in 1963 to fit an evolving Hawaiian rather than Mediterranean style, so it was excluded from the National Register application.
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In 1901, just after the devastating Chinatown fire of 1900, the city of Honolulu had three fire stations. The Central Fire Station at that time was a lava-rock building of two-and-a-half stories designed in 1896 by
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style that dominated the downtown area at that time. The Makiki Fire Station was a two-story wooden building designed by Ripley and Dickey in 1899. At the time he relocated to Honolulu in 1897,
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Penkiunas, Daina Julia (1990). American Regional Architecture in Hawaii: Honolulu, 1915–1935. Ph.D. dissertation,
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Kakaako Fire Station, Hook & Ladder Building, 620 South Street, Honolulu, Honolulu County, HI
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on 2 December 1980, even though Palama Fire Station had been added separately on 21 April 1976.
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Report of the Governor of the Territory of Hawaii to the Secretary of the Interior (1901).
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University and college buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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Government buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Hawaii
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Neil, J. Meredith (1975). "The Architecture of C.W. Dickey in Hawai‘i."
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However, the building boom faded soon afterward. Dickey relocated to
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By the 1920s, the accepted style for most public architecture in
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Report of the Governor of the Territory of Hawaii 1901, p. 86
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Old Kakaako Fire Station (1929), architect Solomon F. Kenn
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embellishments. All seven buildings were added to the
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Makiki Fire Station (1929), architect Solomon F. Kenn
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Kaimuki Fire Station (1924), architect G. R. Miller
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Index

Kakaako Fire Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Hawaii
Mediterranean Revival
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Honolulu Fire Department
Honolulu
National Register of Historic Places
Honolulu, Hawaii
Mission Revival
Mediterranean Revival
Palama Fire Station
Oliver G. Traphagen
Central Fire Station
Art Deco
National Register of Historic Places
masonry
Waikiki Fire Station

Clinton Briggs Ripley
C.W. Dickey
Richardsonian Romanesque
Oliver G. Traphagen
Duluth, Minnesota
Territory
Kakaako Pumping Station
Oakland, California
1906 San Francisco earthquake
Panama Canal

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