Prince Kuhio Federal Building

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The Prince Kūhiō Federal Building, formally the Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole Federal Building and United States Courthouse, is the official seat of the United States federal government and its local branches of various agencies and departments in the state of Hawaiʻi. Completed in 1977 with a total of 929,857 square feet (86,000 m²) of working space, it houses the United States District Court, United States Court of Appeals, United States Attorney, offices of the United States Senators and those elected to represent the First Congressional District of Hawaiʻi and the Second Congressional District of Hawaiʻi. The Prince Kūhiō Building is also home to the United States Secret Service, Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internal Revenue Service, Veterans Administration, among other entities. The building was named after Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole, heir to the throne of the defunct Kingdom of Hawaiʻi and Republican territorial delegate to the United States Congress.

The Prince Kūhiō Building was constructed to replace the aging Federal Court, Customs House and Post Office building fronting ʻIolani Palace and adjacent to Aliʻiōlani Hale. The building was given back to the state of Hawaiʻi and was renamed the King David Kalākaua Building in December 2003. Construction of the Prince Kūhiō Federal Building was not without controversy. Statutes provided that all buildings between the shoreline and the foot of Punchbowl Crater could not be taller than the Hawaiʻi State Capitol. The federal government, which was not legally limited by local statutes, defied the statutes and constructed the Prince Kūhiō Federal Building to become the tallest structure in the path of the capitol building's view of the shoreline.