Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
From the record
“The Kaneohe Ranch Building at Castle Junction, where the Pali Highway, Kamehameha Highway, and Highway intersect on the windward side of was built in 1940 to be the headquarters of Kaneohe Ranch, which owned 12,000 acres (49 km2) of surrounding land and played a major role in the history of and Kailua. The building is significant both for its association with the Ranch and for its Hawaiian style architecture designed by Albert Ely Ives (1898-1966).”
Wikipedia article Kaneohe Ranch Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 154 National Register listings published here for Honolulu County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.87001150- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
326 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 326 fires within 5 miles of Kaneohe Ranch Building
between 1992 and 2017, burning about 700 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
326
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Kaneohe Ranch Building: 1 producer.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Kailua, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 10 heavy rain, 9 flash flood, 5 flood, 2 lightning.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Around 60,000 customers in east Oahu lost electrical power after lightning struck two major transmission lines that serve the Pukele and Koolau substations.
Flash flooding from heavy rain closed Kapaa Quarry Road and Mokapu Boulevard in windward Oahu. Also, at 0047 HST on the 10th, Kamehameha Highway was closed at the Waikane Stream.
A lightning strike brought down a power line in Kailua in windward Oahu. The line came to rest on parked vehicles, where a man with a fire extinguisher tried to put out the smoldering debris. He touched one of the vehicles and was severely shocked by the arcing line.
A National Weather Service Honolulu Damage Survey team confirmed a waterspout moved ashore as an EF0 tornado in Lanikai and tracked southwest, impacting portions of the Enchanted Lakes subdivision in Kailua on Oahu. Several roofs were damaged or destroyed, trees were downed, road signs were mangled, and power lines were snapped.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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