Address
2206 University Ave., Honolulu
TMK
290020050000
SHPD Historic Site Number
Not Yet Available
Abstract
The Kazuo and Mary Yamane residence is a two-story house originally constructed in 1911 for H. Stewart Johnson, the Honolulu city engineer at the time. After being purchased by Kazuo and Mary Yamane in 1958, it was heavily redesigned in 1960 by Honolulu architect Ernest Hara. The house sits on a lava rock and post and pier foundation. The wall of the façade is of raked concrete, horizontal lap siding and vertical tongue and groove, while the rear and side walls are of clapboard. Such elements as the shoji, demado and rankan, the use of vertical wood slat screens, paneled ceilings, and hip gablet roofs, all bestow a Japanese feeling. The Yamane Residence is significant on the local level under Criterion A for its associations with the development of the College Hills subdivision; under Criterion B for its associations with Kazuo Yamane; under Criterion C for its design.
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