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Breakfast with Historic Hawai‘i Foundation: Memories of the Past 50 Years

You’re invited to breakfast with Historic Hawai‘i Foundation Memories of the Past 50 Years In June 2024, Historic Hawai‘i Foundation will celebrate 50 years as an organization dedicated to preserving and encouraging the preservation of Hawai‘i’s historic places. In honor of this anniversary, we invite our preservation ‘ohana to reminisce on the past 50 years and to envision what the future looks like for historic preservation in Hawai‘i. Members and supporters like you have been an integral part of Historic Hawai‘i Foundation’s ability to protect the places that matter. We are grateful for your foresight, passion, and commitment to stewarding Hawai‘i’s historic places so that both present and future generations can benefit. Event Details When: Friday, April 19th, 2024 Time: 9:00-11:00AM Where: Café Julia, Fuller Hall YWCA Laniākea, 1040 Richards St Honolulu, HI 96813 Cost: Free REGISTER ONLINE Below & Share Memories or call, 808-523-2900 or email, member@historichawaii.org Top image--clockwise from top left: Keiki Coloring Contest, 2004; Modernism Symposium Reception, Oahu, 2012; Capital Historic District Story Map tour and event, Honolulu, 2019; Preservation Trades Training Workshop in the Maintenance and Repair of Historic Structures, ōke‘e Civilian Conservation Corps Camp, Kōke‘e State Park, Kaua‘i; Lāna'i City site visit, 2011; 2019 Experts Lecture Series, Life & Death of Kamehameha the Great. Nanette Napoleon presents on the Last Royal Death and burial Under the Kapu System at St. Andrew's Cathedral in Honolulu.

2024-03-18T14:23:35-10:00March 15th, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

4837 Sierra Drive / The Bowers’ House

Address 4837 Sierra Drives, Honolulu, HI 96816 TMK 330270030000 SHPD Historic Site Number N/A Abstract The Bower's House is a two-story residence built in 1931 and one of the first eleven homes in the Maunalani Heights subdivision on Oahu. The home is significant under Criterion A as part of a neighborhood that commemorates the growth of Honolulu's first automobile suburbs, being the highest elevation development accessible to autos at the time. The home is also significant under Criterion C as an example of Colonial Revival Style architecture and a house designed by Armena Louise Morse Eller (1895–1996), one of Hawaiʻi’s earliest known female architects. The builder was Dean H. Lake. Distinctive features include the three-story lava stone chimney, foundation and many rock walls on the property that divide the slope into terraces. Classic Hawaiian design elements such as the large casement windows in every room and open arch doorways between rooms promote cross-ventilation. The built-in furniture, crown molding and wall panels recall arts & craft construction.

2024-03-05T17:51:41-10:00March 5th, 2024|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

1302 Mokulua Drive / Dilks Property

Address 1302 Mokulua Drive, Kailua, HI 96734 TMK 430040740000 SHPD Historic Site Number N/A Abstract The Dilks Property, constructed in 1974, is located on a beachfront lot in Lanikai, a neighborhood within Kailua on O‘ahu. The property hosts two contributing structures, a one-story, Hawaii Regional style wood-frame main residence (Dilks House) and a small cottage (Hau Cottage) with attached garage. In addition, eight mature hau trees that grow throughout the property are contributing site features. The residence is significant under Criterion C as an excellent example of a Hawaii Regional style residence and the work of a master, architect Vladimir Ossipoff, who designed the home. It is believed the Dilks house is the final residential project that Ossipoff designed and managed from schematic design through construction and incorporates many of his early tropical design tenets. The Hau Cottage, which informed the Ossipoff design for the main residence and site, is a contributing resource as an excellent example of the small weekend beach retreats common in Lanikai when the area was first opened up for development. Design features exemplify an earlier Hawaiian vernacular sense of place incorporating a relaxed, open-air tropical lifestyle with the progression of views and spaces and the indoor/outdoor living provided by two large lanai.

2024-03-05T17:45:16-10:00March 5th, 2024|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

21 Homelani Place / Homelani House

Address 21 Homelani Place, Honolulu, HI 96817 TMK 220450380000 SHPD Historic Site Number N/A Abstract The Homelani House is a two and-a-half-story wooden building with shingle finish exterior and plaster finish interior in the Colonial Revival Craftsman/Shingle style. Constructed in 1926, the home is significant under Criterion C as a wood post and pier designed by master architect Albert Ely Ives. Ives also completed a 1946 renovation on the property. Fine craftsmanship ties together many notable features including original Douglas Fir flooring, arched front entry doorway, pocket doors from dining room to outdoor lanai, original kitchen cabinets, coffered ceilings living room and dining room and fireplace with tile inlay surrounding the opening. Homelani House is significant under Criterion A as well as one of the first homes built as part of the Dowsett Tract, an early residential subdivision located in an area just outside of downtown Honolulu.

2024-03-05T17:08:18-10:00March 5th, 2024|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

Yee King Tong Cemetery

Address 352 Auwaiolimu Street, Honolulu, HI 96813 TMK 220140090000 SHPD Historic Site Number N/A Abstract Yee King Tong became an association in 1889 and offered members a burial plot on the slopes of Punchbowl in return for a membership fee, initiating the creation of the Yee King Tong Cemetery. The cemetery was one of several Chinese cemeteries established in this area in the late nineteenth century and is significant under Criterion A for its associations with the Chinese in Hawai‘i. It is significant, too, under Criterion C as a good example of a Chinese cemetery active in Hawai‘i from the late 19th through the 21st century. The Cemetery represents typical tombstone designs of the period, and the presence of many headstones written in Chinese reflects the ethnic origins of the cemetery as does the existence of a bone house. Preferred funerary practices dictated that after death, people’s remains be held in containers in a bone house until circumstances enabled them to be disinterred and sent back to China for burial in the village of one’s birth.

2024-03-05T16:53:54-10:00March 5th, 2024|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

2257 Kuai Road / Sakuichi and Chieko Matsumoto Residence

Address 2257 Kuai Rd, Koloa, HI 96756 TMK 280180310000 SHPD Historic Site Number N/A Abstract Located in a quiet, residential neighborhood in Po‘ipū, the Sakuichi and Chieko Matsumoto residence is a post and pier, single-story, single wall craftsman/bungalow style residence with an attached garage and laundry room. The walls are tongue-and-groove with an exterior girt and lattice apron with a square pattern around the foundation. Other notable features include use of local lava rock on the porch, battered columns, a roof with overhanging eaves with exposed rafter tails, a flowing living-dining room space and use of built-ins such as the hall linen closet and dressing table niche in the front bedroom. Built in 1949, the house is significant under Criterion C as a very good example of the final years of the bungalow style in Hawai‘i and on Kaua‘i. It is one of only two houses on the street to survive Hurricane Iniki in 1992.

2024-03-05T16:25:15-10:00March 5th, 2024|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

John J. Andrade, Sr. Property

Address 45-493 Lehua Street, Honokaa, Hawaii 96727 TMK (3) 4-5-0160210000 SHPD Historic Site Number N/A Abstract The John J. Andrade property is comprised of one and two-story buildings that have been renovated, expanded and altered over time prior to 1973. The complex consists of three sections: a long and rectangular two-story structure; a small, square two-story property, site of the former Andrade Hotel, and the squarish single-story ‘Ōhi‘a Lanai. The property is significant under Criterion C as a good example of wood commercial and residential buildings constructed in the Plantation style between approximately 1920-1930. The property is also significant under Criterion A as an example of a Portuguese American family engaged in small businesses to meet their own needs and contribute to the needs of the larger community. One of the oldest such operations in Honoka‘a, three generations of the Andrade family have lived on the property and operated their businesses there: a meat market, restaurant and laundry, between 1926 and 1973.

2024-03-05T15:40:35-10:00March 5th, 2024|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

Skills Learned at Trades Training Workshop Benefit Restoration Work at Historic Pua Akala Cabin

By Alton Exzabe  After attending the two-day Trades Training Workshop, Maintenance & Repair of Historic Structures, at Kōke‘e Civilian Conservation Corps Camp, on Kaua‘i  in September 2023, I was fortunate to be a part of a team that conducted restoration work at the historic Pua Akala Cabin located at the Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) on Hawai‘i Island. The cabin is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). Built in 1883, the cabin is constructed almost entirely of native Koa wood. As an Archaeologist for the USFWS, I had no prior experience performing this type of work but was able to employ the methods taught during the Workshop and work with colleagues to repair and reinstall several damaged windows from the cabin. The windows had been previously removed from the cabin, so we conducted the repair work at the Hakalau Forest NWR Station workshop. Tasks entailed cleaning and preparing the windows by removing deteriorated putty, light sanding, and the application of linseed oil. We removed broken glass panes and replaced them with new ones, installing glazing points and new glazing putty to secure the panes. Once the windows were assembled, we reinstalled them in the cabin. We also reglazed the two front porch windows without taking them off the cabin. Additional linseed oil was applied to parts of the exterior window frames to afford protection from the weather. The wide range of techniques I learned at the Workshop proved practical for these repairs and will come in handy for similar future efforts. Alton Exzabe, a Wai‘anae native, is Zone Archaeologist on the Cultural Resources Team, Hawai‘i and Pacific at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. [...]

2024-03-01T12:59:22-10:00March 1st, 2024|Categories: Blog, Featured Homepage Top|

Halona Point/Bamboo Ridge Ojizo Stone Monument

Address Off Kalanianaole Highway, Honolulu, HI 96825 TMK (1) 3-9-012-002 SHPD Historic Site Number 50-80-15-09391 Abstract The Ojizo (guardian) Monument stands at the Bamboo Ridge overlook at Halona Point (Koko Head). It is among the significant Honolulu stone monuments carved by sculptor and engraver Sentaro Otsubo, whose primary business was carving gravestones. This is the third Ojizo at this location; vandals destroyed the first two free standing statues placed there to protect fisherman who frequent this popular and challenging ulua fishing spot. The Monument, carved and installed in 1935, is made of lava rock and uses the engraved carving method in which inscriptions are incised and material removed leaving recesses that allow light and shadows to describe the bas relief and calligraphy. The Ojizo Monument is significant under Criterion C as an excellent example of twentieth century stone carving. It is also significant under Criterion A for its contribution to the theme of the creation of permanent stone monuments around southern O‘ahu to honor Issei and Nisei Japanese American ancestors.

2024-03-05T16:56:29-10:00February 15th, 2024|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

View the recording: Heritage Documentation as a Preservation Tool Webinar

Hawai‘i Preservation in Practice Training Webinar: Heritage Documentation as a Preservation Tool Historic Hawai‘i Foundation, in partnership with the Department of the Interior’s National Park Service, will offer a free webinar on utilizing heritage documentation tools to preserve historic places. Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2024 Time: 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. HST Cost: Free Virtual Webinar via ZOOM VIEW THE RECORDING Additional Resources Click on the image at left to view the Webinar slide deck. Heritage documentation is "indispensable, for the purposes of identification, protection, interpretation, and physical preservation of movable objects, historic buildings, archaeological sites, and cultural landscapes..." ~Documenting the cultural heritage, 1998, Getty Information Institute, Council of Europe, edited by Robin Thornes and John Bold The seminar provides training to members of the public, private or government sectors who own, manage, steward or are interested in preserving historic buildings, structures, objects, sites and districts.   Heritage Documentation as a Preservation Tool Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2024 Time: 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. This seminar has been approved for certificate maintenance credits through the American Planning Association (AICP) and the American Institute of Architects (AIA). ABOUT THE COURSE The webinar will present an overview of heritage documentation and its role in protecting, preserving and sharing historic and cultural resources. Subject matter experts will present a variety of documentation tools and methods from simple to complex, and their potential uses, including Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS)/Historic American Engineering Record (HAER)/Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS); research, mapping, laser scanning and more. Illustrative case studies of local projects will provide real life [...]

2024-02-29T10:17:51-10:00February 2nd, 2024|Categories: Events, Events - Home sidebar, Featured Homepage Top|
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