Address
271 Front St, Lahaina, HI 96761
TMK
(2)4-6-03:04
SHPD Historic Site Number
Not Yet Available
Abstract
The Pioneer Mill Company/Lahaina Ice Company (PMCo) Bookkeeper’s House on Front Street in Lahaina is a Plantation Vernacular dwelling. It is significant under Criterion A as part of a community development plan focusing on PMCo’s upper and middle management sites. It is also significant under Criterion C as an example of a Craftsman-inspired Plantation Vernacular style dwelling frequently built for employees of sugar and pineapple companies. It may have been built at its current site in 1925 or moved there in the same year from Lunaville Camp or Village. Situated on a shoreline parcel, the house was built under the supervision of Native Hawaiian head carpenter Thomas Kaneholani (K.) Makuaole Hussey. It is of single-wall or plank frame construction, has an exterior finish of vertical tongue and groove wood siding as well as hipped and shed roofs of corrugated metal. The house was rehabilitated from 2021-2022. The front and side exterior facades were restored, additions made to the rear (southwest) façade in the 1960s were removed, a rear lanai was rebuilt, original fenestration of the rear second floor façade was restored, along with a majority of interior finishes.
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