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You Want to Put Your Home on the Register, Now What?

Perhaps you’ve just closed on your “new” historic home or inherited your childhood dwelling and you’re considering nominating it to the Hawai‘i State Register of Historic Places.  Here are some useful tips and resources to help you on your way. How do I get started? Download Historic Hawai‘i Foundation’s “Guide for Nominating Residences to the Hawai‘i Register of Historic Places” at this link: https://historichawaii.org/resource-center-2/register-guide/  This comprehensive manual can walk you step-by-step through the process. Why List? Does your home tell a piece of the collective story of our history? Listing honors a residence by recognizing its importance to the community, State, or the Nation and by deeming it to be worthy of preservation. Everyone benefits from preserving our historic resources, which are an integral part of the familiar local landscapes of our island home. Recognizing this importance, the government offers certain tax incentives such as the Federal Rehabilitation Tax Credit. This federal program is applicable for income-producing residential homes certified as historic or listed on the Register. While owner-occupied residences are not eligible, historic properties, or a portion thereof, used as a source of rental income (for example as a Bed and Breakfast operation) would qualify. You can learn more here https://www.nps.gov/tps/tax-incentives.htm At the county level, Honolulu, Kaua‘i, Maui, and Hawai‘i, offer tax relief for owners of residences listed on the Hawai‘i Register. These programs are similar in each County and offer a property tax exemption from real property taxation for homes listed on the Register. More information is available at https://historichawaii.org/resource-center-2/tax-info/ How do I know if my home is eligible? In deciding whether a residence should be placed on the Hawai‘i Register, state law requires that the Hawai‘i Historic Places Review [...]

2018-12-21T00:58:30-10:00December 21st, 2018|Categories: Ask an Expert|

Hawaiian Diacritical Marks

By Lilinoe Andrews Specialist, University of Hawaiʻi – West Oʻahu Hawaiian diacritical marks comprise just two symbols: the glottal stop (ʻokina) and the macron (kahakō). Are they important? Worth the extra time it takes to insert them into your text? That depends, so let’s discuss. Simply speaking, the two diacritical marks are a way to show how a Hawaiian word should sound to a person unfamiliar with a particular word. More importantly, those two little marks are keeping the Hawaiian language alive. In 1826, a committee of seven missionary gentlemen thought diacriticals were important enough to wrestle mightily with them in the challenge to put the once oral language to print. They decided, after doing similar work in Tahiti, that Hawaiian should have just twelve letters. The ʻokina appeared in Andrews’ dictionary in 1865 and the kahakō in Judd, Pukui, and Stokes’ dictionary and grammar in 1945. In 1978 the ʻAhahui ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi published “Recommendations and Comments on the Hawaiian Spelling Project” and standardized the use of the ʻokina and kahakō. Not only do the ʻokina and kahakō change the sound of a word, they often end up changing its meaning. For example, these are separate words: pau=completed paʻu=soot paʻū=damp, soaked pāʻū=woman’s skirt Diacriticals are important to keeping Hawaiian (the fastest growing native language in the U.S.) alive because they help expand the lexicon and give the language the subtlety that fluent speakers know by heart. And they are helpful for those unfamiliar with the language, like little cheat marks to keep you from getting your pāʻū all paʻū. Your kumu hula would not be happy. There are a few contexts where diacriticalizing is not seen. For example, in the Niʻihau church where the [...]

2018-12-21T00:46:58-10:00December 21st, 2018|Categories: Trends & Issues|

2019 Preservation Honor Awards Call for Nominations

Do you know of an outstanding preservation project completed within the past two years? Nominate it for Historic Hawaii Foundation’s Preservation Honor Awards! Nominations are due by February 11, 2019. The 45th Annual Preservation Honor Awards Ceremony will be held in Honolulu on May 31, 2019.

2019-02-15T11:51:20-10:00December 19th, 2018|Categories: Uncategorized|

Honoka’a Garage / Honoka’a

Address 45-3586 Mamane Street, Honoka'a, Hawaii 96727 TMK (3) 4-5-016:049 SHPD Historic Site Number Not Available Abstract Approved for Criterion A (Historic Events and Patterns) and Criterion C (Architecture and Engineering).  The Honoka'a Garage is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad development patterns of Honoka'a and Hawaiian history in the area of commerce, as an important later nineteenth/early twentieth-century automotive servicing center for the local (sugar) plantation workers, ranchers, and independent farmers.   The Honoka'a Garage is a good example of vernacular commercial "plantation" style architecture - a wood commercial building constructed in Hawai'i which adapted well to a wide variety of commercial uses. This list of Hawaii’s historic properties is provided as a public service by Historic Hawaii Foundation. It is not the official list of properties designated on the Hawaii State Register of Historic Places. For official designations and determinations of eligibility, contact the State Historic Preservation Division of the Department of Land and Natural Resources of the State of Hawaii at 808-692-8015.

2018-11-29T16:25:20-10:00November 29th, 2018|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

3288 Huelani Drive / George and Janet Wimberly Residence

Address 3288 Huelani Drive, Honolulu 96822 TMK (1) 2-9-034:004 SHPD Historic Site Number 50-80-14-08207 Abstract Approved for Criterion C (Architecture and Engineering).  The George Wimberly residence is significant as a good example of a modern style house built in Honolulu following World War II.  The house includes a number of distinctive features and is typical of its period in its design, materials, workmanship and methods of construction.  It is also architecturally significant as a dwelling designed by the firm of Wimberly & Cook, which would emerge as one of the foremost architectural firms working in the hospitality and resort design field during the later twentieth century. This list of Hawaii’s historic properties is provided as a public service by Historic Hawaii Foundation. It is not the official list of properties designated on the Hawaii State Register of Historic Places. For official designations and determinations of eligibility, contact the State Historic Preservation Division of the Department of Land and Natural Resources of the State of Hawaii at 808-692-8015.

2018-11-29T15:31:05-10:00November 28th, 2018|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

2408 & 2414 Burbank Street / Waterhouse Walker Residence

Address 2408 & 2414 Burbank Street, Honolulu 96817 TMK (1) 1-8-006:021 SHPD Historic Site Number 50-80-14-08739 Abstract Approved for Criterion A (Historical Events and Patterns) and Criterion C (Architecture and Engineering).  The two homes located on 2408 and 2414 Burbank Street are known as the Waterhouse-Walker residences.  The Waterhouse-Walker Residences have contributed to the broad patterns of development in the history of Hawaii during a time of tremendous growth of the outlying neighborhoods of Honolulu in the late 1920s as part of the Burbank Tract Development.  Architecturally, these houses are of artistic value and are two valuable and intact remaining examples of the Craftsman style homes that existed in this area. This list of Hawaii’s historic properties is provided as a public service by Historic Hawaii Foundation. It is not the official list of properties designated on the Hawaii State Register of Historic Places. For official designations and determinations of eligibility, contact the State Historic Preservation Division of the Department of Land and Natural Resources of the State of Hawaii at 808-692-8015.

2018-12-05T10:40:01-10:00November 28th, 2018|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

2902 Komai’a Place / Claude and Myrtle Swann Residence

Address 2902 Komai'a Place, Honolulu 96822 TMK (1) 2-9-017:026 SHPD Historic Site Number 50-80-14-08745 Abstract Approved for Criterion C (Architecture and Engineering).  The Swann Residence is significant on the local level under Criterion C, as a good example of a Spanish mission revival style house built in Honolulu during the late 1920s and early 1930s.  The style began in California during the late 19th century inspired by the 18th century Spanish Missions in California and the southwest.  The style is characterized by its minimal ornamentation, clay tile roofs, stucco walls and use of round arched openings.  The architect of the Swann house was Robert Miller. This list of Hawaii’s historic properties is provided as a public service by Historic Hawaii Foundation. It is not the official list of properties designated on the Hawaii State Register of Historic Places. For official designations and determinations of eligibility, contact the State Historic Preservation Division of the Department of Land and Natural Resources of the State of Hawaii at 808-692-8015.

2018-11-29T15:28:14-10:00November 28th, 2018|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

2436 Burbank Street / Robertson Residence

Address 2436 Burbank Street, Honolulu 96817 TMK (1) 1-8-006:074 SHPD Historic Site Number 50-80-14-08742 Abstract Approved for Criterion A (Historical Events and Patterns).  The Robertson Residence is a one-story wood frame with a second-floor finished attic space with dormers, Craftsman style single-family residence.  It has contributed to the broad patterns of development in the history of Hawaii during a time of tremendous growth of the outlying neighborhoods of Honolulu in the late 1920s as it is associated with the Burbank Tract development and is one of the original homes built as part of the Burbank Tract.  This house is significant on the local level for the period of 1925 and 1926 when the lot was purchased and the residence was constructed. This list of Hawaii’s historic properties is provided as a public service by Historic Hawaii Foundation. It is not the official list of properties designated on the Hawaii State Register of Historic Places. For official designations and determinations of eligibility, contact the State Historic Preservation Division of the Department of Land and Natural Resources of the State of Hawaii at 808-692-8015.

2018-11-29T15:26:28-10:00November 28th, 2018|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

2105 Kamehameha Avenue / P.C. Jones Cottage

Address 2105 Kamehameha Avenue, Honolulu 96822 TMK (1) 2-9-001:029 SHPD Historic Site Number 50-80-14-08206 Abstract Approved for Criterion A (Historical Events and Patterns) and Criterion C (Architecture and Engineering).  The P.C. Jones cottage is significant as a very good and rare example of a late Queen Anne revival style house built in Hawaii during the early 1900s.  Its asymmetric massing, wrap around porch with a balustrade with turned balusters, its diamond and lozenge adorned windows, its steep roof with protruding dormers and a rounded roll reflect the Queen Anne revival style.  In addition, the house is also significant under Criterion A for its associations with the development of Manoa Valley, and more specifically the College Hills tract, and should be included in that multiple property nomination. This list of Hawaii’s historic properties is provided as a public service by Historic Hawaii Foundation. It is not the official list of properties designated on the Hawaii State Register of Historic Places. For official designations and determinations of eligibility, contact the State Historic Preservation Division of the Department of Land and Natural Resources of the State of Hawaii at 808-692-8015.

2018-11-29T15:24:57-10:00November 28th, 2018|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

2420 Burbank Street / Owens Residence

Address 2420 Burbank Street, Honolulu 96817 TMK (1) 1-8-006:022 SHPD Historic Site Number 50-80-14-08740 Abstract Approved for Criterion A (Historic Events and Patterns) and Criterion C (Architecture and Engineering).  The Owens residence has contributed to the broad patterns of development in the history of Hawaii during a time of tremendous growth of the outlying neighborhoods of Honolulu in the late 1920s as it is associated with the Burbank Tract Development and is one of the original homes on the Burbank Tract.  The home is also significant under Criterion C at the local level as an intact example of the craftsman style home and an example of a private dwelling designed by master architect Herbert Cohen. This list of Hawaii’s historic properties is provided as a public service by Historic Hawaii Foundation. It is not the official list of properties designated on the Hawaii State Register of Historic Places. For official designations and determinations of eligibility, contact the State Historic Preservation Division of the Department of Land and Natural Resources of the State of Hawaii at 808-692-8015.

2018-11-29T15:23:30-10:00November 28th, 2018|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |
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