Address
3860 Old Pali Road, Honolulu, HI 96817

TMK
(1) 9-0-050:040

SHPD Historic Site Number
80-14-1366

National Register of Historic Places
#86001619

Abstract
The Clarence Cooke Residence was built in 1932 and is significant for its architecture and association with Clarence Hyde Cooke, a prominent businessman who became president of Bank of Hawaii in 1909 and was elected to the Territorial legislature in 1913. Designed by Hardie Phillip, who designed several other outstanding Hawaiian-style buildings in Honolulu such as the C. Brewer Building and former residence of Governor Carter, the house is a twenty-four room mansion rendered in a Hawaiian style of architecture. The two-story, white-washed brick and frame residence features an asymmetrical plan which lends the building a sense of sprawling informality. Well-planned, well-crafted, and known for paying high attention to detail, the house was built for lavish, opulent entertainment which it came to be associated with. As such, it epitomizes the finest traditions in upper-class residential design in Hawaii for its period.

This list of Hawaii’s historic properties is provided as a public service by Historic Hawaii Foundation. It is not the official list of properties designated on the Hawaii State Register of Historic Places. For official designations and determinations of eligibility, contact the State Historic Preservation Division of the Department of Land and Natural Resources of the State of Hawaii at 808-692-8015.