State Historic Bridge Inventory and Evaluation (2024 Update)

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STATE HISTORIC BRIDGE INVENTORY AND EVALUATION 2024 UPDATE bridges throughout Hawaii. The program PA, entitled the Programmatic Agreement among the Federal Highway Administration, U.S.Army Corps of Engineers Honolulu District, the Hawaii State Historic Preservation Officer, and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation regarding Hawaii Historic Bridge No Adverse Effect Projects(Historic Bridges PA or PA), seeks to make the Section 106 compliance process more efficient for certain types of projects that affect historic bridges as identified in this SHBIE. 1.3 HISTORIC BRIDGE IDENTIFICATION AND EVALUATION METHODS Since the 1980s, several studies have been prepared to document Hawaii's historic bridges. These bridges were first identified in the following reports: Historic Bridge Inventory:Island of Oahu prepared by Bethany Thompson in June 1983; Historic Bridge Inventory and Evaluation:Island of Hawaii, prepared by Patricia Alvarez in July 1987; Historic Bridge Inventory:Island of Kauai prepared by Spencer Mason Architects in October 1989; and Historic Bridge Inventory and Evaluation:Islands of Maui and Molokai prepared by The Hawaii Heritage Center in September 1990. In 2008, the Heritage Center, School of Architecture, and UH-Manoa combined these reports into a comprehensive Historic Bridge Inventory and Evaluation for HDOT in order to form a comprehensive perspective across the islands.4 In 2013, MKE Associates LLC and Fung Associates, Inc. prepared the Hawaii State Historic Bridge Inventory and Evaluation (SHBIE)that identified and evaluated 707 bridges constructed between 1894 and 1968 on the islands of Kauai, Oahu, Maui, Molokai, and Hawaii. The 2013 SHBIE established a precedent for regular updates of the historic bridge inventory. 2008 SHIBE DRAFT REPORT The draft 2008 report first examined the multiple property listings for Historic Highway Bridges of Hawaii (1894-1941) which is based upon inventory surveys completed for each county between 1983 and 1990.5 The County surveys identified and evaluated 379 bridges constructed prior to 1941: 127 on Oahu, 119 on Hawaii Island, 51 on Kauai, and 82 on Maui. The bridges were ranked, based on numerical ratings, under one of the following categories: • Category I—those with high historical significance • Category II—those bridges that have considerable historic significance but not enough research available to warrant being placed in Category I, or • Category III—those bridges with little, or no, historical significance. 4 Patricia Alvarez, Historic Bridge Inventory and Evaluation:Island of Hawaii(Honolulu, 1987); Hawaii Heritage Center, Historic Bridge Inventory and Evaluation:Islands of Maui and Molokai(Honolulu, 1990); Bethany Thompson, Historic Bridge Inventory:Island of Oahu (Honolulu, 1983); Spencer Mason Architects, Historic Bridge Inventory:Island of Kauai(Honolulu, 1989);The Heritage Center, School of Architecture at the University of Hawaii at Manoa,State of Hawaii Historic Bridge Inventory and Evaluation, Prepared for the State of Hawaii Department of Transportation, Highways Division, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration (Honolulu, 2008). 5 Patricia Alvarez, Historic Bridge Inventory and Evaluation:Island of Hawaii(Honolulu, 1987); Hawaii Heritage Center, Historic Bridge Inventory and Evaluation:Islands of Maui and Molokai(Honolulu, 1990); Bethany Thompson, Historic Bridge Inventory:Island of Oahu (Honolulu, 1983); Spencer Mason Architects, Historic Bridge Inventory:Island of Kauai(Honolulu, 1989). 8