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Hotel Honokaa Club

Address 45-3480 Mamane Street, Honokaa, Hawaii 96727 TMK (3) 4-5-006:013 SHPD Historic Site Number N/A Download Nomination Form The Hotel Honokaa Club, circa 1927, is a two story-wood frame commercial building located in the historic plantation town of Honokaʻa on the northeast side of the island of Hawaiʻi. The building is an example of the type of vernacular architectural design and method of construction that is known locally as “plantation style.” Defining features include a totan (corrugated metal) roof, single wall construction with vertical wood planks, and numerous double-hung windows. The building has three floor levels that include the main floor, a rear second story addition, and a basement area. Historically, the hotel/club functioned as a local gathering place that provided guest accommodations for travelers, temporary sales space for the display of commercial samples and wares by traveling salesmen, and a dining room and bar facility that was the site of numerous local social occasions and get-togethers from the 1920s through the 1960s and beyond. The Hotel Honokaa Club is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places on the State level under Criteria A (Events/History) and C (Architecture). 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.

2017-04-21T01:03:26-10:00January 13th, 2017|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

Kahului Railroad Administration Building

Address 101 East Kaahumanu Avenue, Kahului, Maui, 96732 TMK (2) 3-7-010:036 SHPD Historic Site Number N/A Download Nomination Form The Kahului Railroad Administration Building is a single story, reinforced concrete building with a plaster finish, rendered in a classical revival style. The T-shaped building has a shallow-pitched, corrugated metal, hipped roof with overhanging closed eaves, and it sits on a 16"-high raised foundation. The building is significant on the local level under criterion C, as a good example of a classical revival style building constructed on Maui during the 1920s. It is also significant at the local level under criterion A for its associations with the Kahului Railroad, the first licensed railway in Hawaii. The Kahului Railroad Company was also the longest railroad to operate, remaining in business until 1966 and outlasting the other six public carrier lines in the Islands with an 87-year history of continuous operation. 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.

2017-04-21T01:01:47-10:00January 13th, 2017|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

1921 Komaia Drive / Gordon & Hilda Hayes Residence

Address 1921 Komaia Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822 TMK (1) 2-9-017:017 SHPD Historic Site Number N/A Download Nomination Form The Gordon and Hilda Hayes Residence is situated on Komaia Drive in Manoa valley, a quiet residential street which runs uphill from Manoa Road. The house is a single story craftsman cottage with certain colonial details. It has a front facing composition shingled gable roof with open, overhanging eaves with exposed rafter tails and purlins. A 6 x 1 double hung sash window, adorned with shutters, is in the gable end. The two wall house features horizontal lap siding, and sits on a lava rock and post and pier foundation with a square lattice apron. The Hayes Residence is significant on the local level under criterion C, as a good example of a craftsman style cottage with colonial undertones built in Honolulu during the late 1920s and early 1930s. 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.

2017-04-21T01:01:04-10:00January 13th, 2017|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

3223 Noela Street / Charles C. Gates Residence

Address 3223 Noela Street, Honolulu, HI 96815 TMK (1) 3-1-027:002 SHPD Historic Site Number N/A Download Nomination Form The Gates Residence is significant on the state level under criterion C, as a good example of a house built in Honolulu during the late 1930s in a Hawaiian style. It is a two story house with a concrete slab and post and pier foundation and 12” wide redwood tongue and groove walls. Its low pitched, shake shingle, intersecting double pitched hipped roofs are overhanging with open eaves and exposed rafter tails. The house is characterized by a wing running to the right, which twice recedes before terminating at the automobile court. The house is also the work of a master having been designed by Mark Potter, and possesses high artistic values. 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.

2017-04-21T01:01:04-10:00January 13th, 2017|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

2343 Oahu Avenue / Sannojo & Tazu Tanabe Residence

Address 2343 Oahu Avenue, Honolulu, HI 96822 TMK (1) 2-9-005:054 SHPD Historic Site Number N/A Download Nomination Form The Tanabe residence is typical of 1950s modern style residential architecture in Hawaii as applied to tract housing. Its unadorned, clean horizontal lines, picture window, and low profile hip roof with overhanging eaves well bespeak the style. The open, flowing, interior spaces are also typical, as are the use of built-in shelving and furniture, the indirect lighting, and the extensive use of sliding doors and windows. The redwood tongue and groove walls, the wrought iron railing, and the foundation’s concrete blocks are all typical materials of the period. The strong emphasis on cross ventilation and the opening of the master bedroom onto a small lanai via sliding doors express a response to Hawaii’s climate, as does the house’s use of single wall construction and use of a carport rather than a garage. The single wall construction comes out of Hawaii’s plantation architecture tradition, while the carport is another post-World War II innovation associated with the modern movement.The Tanabe Residence is significant on the local level under criterion C, as a good example of a modern style house built in Honolulu during the 1950s. It is also significant at the local level under criterion A for its associations with the development of the College Hills Tract. 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 [...]

2017-04-21T01:01:04-10:00January 13th, 2017|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

406 Dune Circle / George & Phyllis Hogan Residence

Address 406 Dune Circle, Kailua, HI 96734 TMK (1) 4-3-017:032 SHPD Historic Site Number N/A Download Nomination Form The George and Phyllis Hogan Residence is situated in a quiet residential neighborhood in Kailua on Dune Circle, a serene loop off Kaleheo Avenue with approximately thirty one houses lining its two sides. It is a single-story, modern style house with Japanese overtones. It has an intersecting, shake shingle, hip-gablet roof with open, overhanging eaves and exposed rafter tails. At the roofs’ corners are ringed, rain chains. The gablets are treated in a Japanese manner with vertical slats surmounting horizontal siding, and the ridge beams with decorative, extended ends are also reminiscent of Japanese architecture. The George and Phyllis Hogan Residence is significant on the local level under criterion C as a good example of a modern style house with Japanese overtones designed during the 1950s in Hawaii. It is also architecturally significant as a work of a master, Honolulu architect George Hogan. 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.

2017-04-21T01:01:05-10:00January 12th, 2017|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

3024 Diamond Head Road / Agner R. & Ruth M. Nylen Residence

Address 3024 Diamond Head Road, Honolulu, HI 96815 TMK (1) 3-1-034:029 SHPD Historic Site Number N/A Download Nomination Form The Nylen Residence is situated on Diamond Head Road in Diamond Head Terrace, a quiet residential neighborhood past the end of Kapiolani Park. The residence is significant on the local level under criterion C, as a good example of a house built in Honolulu in the 1930s in a streamline moderne style. Residences designed in a streamline moderne style in Hawaii are rare. It is a two-story house which features rounded front corners and a flat, built-up tar roof with overhanging eaves that follow the curvature of the house. The roof has a shallow pitch to the rear. The house sits on a poured in place concrete slab foundation, and its walls are of concrete masonry units (cmu). The house is also significant at the local level under criterion A for its associations with the development of Diamond Head Terrace as a residential 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.

2017-04-21T01:01:05-10:00January 12th, 2017|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

2240 Waikolu Way / Francis J. Smith Apartment Building

Address 2240 Waikolu Way, Honolulu, HI 96815 TMK (1) 2-6-019:005 SHPD Historic Site Number N/A Download Nomination Form The Smith Apartment Building is a modest example of the moderne style applied to an apartment building. Its smooth masonry walls, flat roof, and rounded elements well bespeak the style, as does its incised banding running around the top of the building’s second story. In addition to its style, the building is significant as a good example of a typical apartment building constructed in Waikīkī during the 1930s. 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.

2017-04-21T01:01:05-10:00January 12th, 2017|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

S. Hasegawa Store

Address 45-3587 Mamane Street, Honokaa, Hawaii 96727 TMK (3) 4-5-007:013 SHPD Historic Site Number N/A Download Nomination Form The Seishiro Hasegawa Ltd. Store Building is eligible under Criteria A and C. The S. Hasegawa Ltd. retail firm and building together are significant under Criterion A as they represent economic advancement for generations of Big Island residents. Initial area industries such as homesteading, ranching, and macadamia nuts, and Hawaiʻi’s sugar industry were complimented in Honokaʻa town where more diversified employment opportunities and goods were available. The Hasegawa Building is also significant at the local level under Criterion C as a good example of vernacular commercial “plantation” style architecture–a wood commercial building constructed in Hawaiʻi during the opening decades of the twentieth century. It is constructed on a concrete foundation, with wood frame and single vertical wood walls. The exterior of the building has horizontal bevel siding on all sides. Single and double double-hung windows extend along the façade of the second story, and around the first and second stories on the sides. The roof extends out around all sides of the building as a cornice with wooden decorative support elements evenly spaced. Commercial activities today occupy the first floor and two residential apartments the second. 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.

2017-04-21T01:03:27-10:00January 12th, 2017|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

2805 Oahu Avenue / Henry & Florence Bailey Residence

Address 2805 Oahu Avenue, Honolulu, HI 96822 TMK (1) 2-9-014:068 SHPD Historic Site Number N/A Download Nomination Form The Bailey Residence is significant on the local level under criterion C, as a good example of a bungalow style house built in Honolulu prior to the 1920s. The two story, bungalow style house conveys the spirit of the style in its workmanship, its asymmetry, use of lava rock, large shed dormers on either side of the gable roof, the use of figure four brackets and the rafter tails’ decorative carving. It is also architecturally significant as a typical dwelling designed by Emory & Webb, who were one of the foremost architectural firms working in Honolulu during the period 1910-1920. 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.

2017-04-21T01:01:05-10:00January 12th, 2017|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |
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