Historic Properties in the News: Spotlight on historic Volcano House Hotel
Courtesy of National Park Service Honolulu Star-Advertiser article: Volcano house boasts unmatched beauty March 23, 2014 By Cheryl Chee Tsutsumi The Honolulu Star-Advertiser It doesn't have an ocean view, there's not a palm tree in sight and instead of swimsuits, guests are likely to be dressed in sweaters. [...]
Be a part of “Shaping Hawaii for Tomorrow” at the 2014 HCPO Planning Conference
You live in Hawai'i. You work in Hawai'i. You are planning Hawaii's future. We know you have ideas and projects to make planning in Hawai'i creative and resilient AND you can present them at the 2014 Hawaii Congress of Planning Officials (HCPO) on Maui in September. To make this year’s [...]
Preservation in the News: HILT leads “Talk Story on the Land” hikes
COURTESY JEANE MCMAHON Hikers learn to love and conserve the land March 2, 2014 By Cheryl Chee Tsutsumi The Honolulu Star-Advertiser Ted Clement's first job after graduating from college in 1991 was working as an environmental educator for the Outward Bound School in Maine. A longtime outdoor [...]
Preservation in the News: Historic pump station to be converted to senior resource center
Photo by JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO@STARADVERTISER.COM Plan for senior center on pump station site OK'd By Andrew Gomes Honolulu Star-Advertiser, 2014-03-06 March 06--A 114-year-old building in Kakaako that has stood abandoned for the past 50 years, despite being an architectural gem, may finally be put to use after [...]
Preservation in the news: Palace to replace broken glass panel
Photo courtesy of Star-Advertiser Palace taps California artist again to replicate glass panel By Rob Shikina, Honolulu Star Advertiser March 2, 2014 A California man will soon begin the painstaking process of replicating an embossed glass panel that was shattered during an act of vandalism at Iolani Palace [...]
Do you get charged up about preservation?
If you worked in this building, you might. From the Star Bulletin Archives - July, 2004: The Hawaiian Electric building was completed in 1927. HECO contracted with New York architects York & Sawyer, the same team who designed the post office, to create a similar building but lofted in a [...]