Address
45-3468 Māmane Street, Honoka‘a, Hawai‘i Island 96727
TMK
(3) 4-5-006: 011
SHPD Historic Site Number
Not Yet Available
Historic Designations:
Hawai‘i Register of Historic Places
Abstract
The Kojiro Yamamoto Store and Garage, built in 1919, was a retail store and garage with a second story dedicated to residential space. The store and garage are significant under Criterion A typifying structures illustrative of the hard work of immigrants to improve their economic status and as an incubator for the entrepreneurial dreams of Japanese lssei and Nisei to find employment off the plantations. It is significant under Criterion C as a good example of plantation era architecture of a commercial building constructed in Hawai’i comprised of wood, single-wall construction. It is an outstanding example of the growing impact of “automobile prosperity” in rural Hawai’i in the 1920s.
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