Address
4333-4335 Royal Circle, Honolulu, HI 96816
TMK
(1) 3-5-002: 043
SHPD Historic Site Number
Not Yet Available
Abstract
Built in 1931, the Allen W. and E. Vivian Smith Residence is significant under Criterion C as an example of a 1930s Tudor revival style house in Honolulu. The architect was John Alvin Shadinger who began designing houses in 1922. It’s estimated that he designed over two million dollars’ worth of housing over the course of his 30-year career. The house sits on a lava rock and wood post with a pier foundation that features a square lattice apron and includes a number of distinctive features. It has steep gabled roofs, a rambling floor plan, an asymmetric massing, half timbering on the accompanying cottage, beamed ceilings that support the living and dining rooms’ console, and diamond paned windows. The use of bay windows in the second story and living room are a very late appearance of these features and may be a result of an effort to playfully convey the romantic fantasy of the Tudor style. The Smith residence is to be included in the Honolulu Tudor-French Norman Cottages Thematic Group.
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