Historic Properties

413 Seaside Avenue / Cooper Apartments / Waikiki

Address 413 Seaside Avenue, Honolulu, Hawaii 96815 TMK (1) 2-6-021:056 SHPD Historic Site Number 50-80-14-08041 Abstract The Cooper Apartment Building is significant on the local level under criterion C, as a good example of a masonry apartment building constructed in Waikiki in the 1030s in a tropical modern style.  Its white masonry walls, low pitched hipped roof with overhanging eaves, large sliding windows with horizontal panes, and modest art deco-Asian decorative elements well bespeak the style, as does its stepped scalloped front wall and the courtyard fireplace's chimney and chimney cap.  The Cooper Apartments has been considered the best surviving example of a pre-war garden court apartment in Waikiki.  The building was designed by the Honolulu architectural firm of Dahl & Conrad. 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.

2018-08-02T15:13:18-10:00March 22nd, 2018|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

1950 Judd Hillside Road / Gustav A. Schuman Residence

Address 1950 Judd Hillside Road, Honolulu, HI 96822 TMK (1) 2-5-004:008 SHPD Historic Site Number N/A Download Nomination Form The Gustav A. Schuman Residence is a two story, has an H plan formed by shallow rear wings and covered, single story arcades in the front. Spanish mission revival in style, it has stuccoed walls, and a red tiled, hipped roof with open, overhanging eaves with exposed, carved rafter tails with a quatrefoil design under the eave between each rafter tail. Almost all the house’s openings are round arched. The house sits on a concrete foundation. The Gustav A. Schuman 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 1920s. 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.

2017-04-21T01:01:03-10:00January 18th, 2017|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

2902 Manoa Road / Paul F. & Eva Summers Residence

Address 2902 Manoa Road, Honolulu, HI 96822 TMK (1) 2-9-017:002 SHPD Historic Site Number N/A Download Nomination Form The Paul and Eva Summers Residence is a single story, Hawaiian style cottage with a composition shingled double pitched hipped roof with open, overhanging eaves with exposed rafter tails. The single wall house features shingle siding, and sits on a lava rock foundation with a basement and garage under the house. The Summers Residence is significant on the local level under criterion C, as a good example of an early Hawaiian style cottage built in Honolulu during the late 1920s. 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.

2017-04-21T01:01:03-10:00January 18th, 2017|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

3210 Melemele Place / Bushnell Residence

Address 3210 Melemele Place, Honolulu, HI 96822 TMK (1) 2-9-070:002 SHPD Historic Site Number N/A Download Nomination Form Part 1 Download Nomination Form Part 2 The Bushnell Residence was designed and constructed by Alfred Preis, a Honolulu based master architect and Hawaii’s First State Planning Coordinator, who was commissioned by Dr. Oswald and Elizabeth Bushnell in 1949 to create a modern style home (now classified as “mid-century”). The residence’s long low forms, flat roof with geometric eaves, minimal use of ornamentation, integration of interior and exterior spaces and expansive use of glass make the house a notable example of mid-century modern design. The harmonious integration of simple and natural materials (wood, glass, brick), the use of mitered windows, the built in shelving and light fixtures, the emphasis on function and the meticulous attention to detail found in the Bushnell Residence became constant features of Preis’ work. While the melding of indoor and outdoor environments provide evidence of his evolution away from his earlier European design. The Bushnell Residence is significant under Criterion C because it represents the exceptionally well-preserved work of a master architect and is also significant under Criterion B, for the significance of Dr. Oswald “Ozzie” Bushnell, a nationally recognized and awarded Hawaiian novelist and historian, who resided in the home for over five decades and in which he wrote all of his influential works. 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 [...]

2017-04-21T01:01:03-10:00January 18th, 2017|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

90 Koula Street / Samuel & Asako Haraguchi Residence

Address 90 Koula Street, Hilo, Hawaii 96720 TMK (3) 2-5-024:026 SHPD Historic Site Number N/A Download Nomination Form The Haraguchi house is a single-family residence designed by Vladmir Ossipoff. The exterior of the home embodies the understated aesthetic of Japanese architecture while the home's open floor plan and multitude of sliding doors and windows, as well as other features, allow for a true connection to the natural setting of the home. The home is significant as a representative example of the work of Vladmir Ossipoff, a figure renowned in the history of architecture in Hawaii. The residence in particular embodies Mr. Ossipoff's unique merging of the aesthetic of Eastern architecture and the sensitivity to the surrounding environment championed in Western mid-century modern 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.

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

3625 Diamond Head Road / David Barry Jr. Resort Home

Address 3625 Diamond Head Road, Honolulu, HI 96816 TMK (1) 2-9-070:002 SHPD Historic Site Number N/A Download Nomination Form The 1961 Barry Resort Home was designed by renowned architect Vladimir Ossipoff, one of the foremost architects of Hawaii, and who was known for “a style of architecture that revealed a dramatic mix of Japanese and modern elements.” The home represents one of Vladimir Ossipoff’s strongest traditional Japanese-influenced residential designs. The residence consists of two structures: the Lower Pavilion, which functions as the main living space, housing a kitchen, dining room, living room, lanai and bathroom; and the Upper Pavilion, consisting of three bedrooms, each with their own bathroom, and accessed via an open, slightly raised walkway. The “Resort Home for Mr. and Mrs. David Barry, Jr.” is significant at the state level under Criterion C as an excellent example of a Hawaii Regional style residence and the work of a master, architect Vladimir Ossipoff. 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.

2017-04-21T01:01:03-10:00January 13th, 2017|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

525 Portlock Road / Henry J. & Alyce Kaiser Estate

Address 525 Portlock Road, Honolulu, HI 96825 TMK (1) 3-9-026:047 SHPD Historic Site Number N/A The Henry J. and Alyce Kaiser Estate is a one-story, International Style residence following Mies van der Rohe's architectural vocabulary having an off-centered cross-shaped plan, a flat roof design, with large glass sliding doors along the ocean front elevation. The foundation is concrete and the walls are concrete with a stucco finish or silver travertine stone veneer. The roof is flat with a thickened edge made of steel web trusses. A large covered porte cochere protrudes from the entry hallway, serving as one of the legs of the cross-shaped plan. The interior of the house reflects the International Style in the white ceilings, white floor, and white and silver travertine-clad walls. The house is located at Portlock, an early upper-class neighborhood, popular from the 1950s onward. The house fronts the ocean, and high stone/concrete walls along Portlock Road shelter the property. Built in 1959, the Henry and Alyce Kaiser Estate is locally significant under Criterion B for its close and unique association with Henry J. Kaiser, one of the America’s top business leaders and industrialists of all time. The amended nomination enlarges the nomination boundary to include the Trophy House and Kennel Manager Quarters (1959), Water Feature (1959), and the remaining Dog Run Walls (1959), features which complement the significance of the estate as key attributes that supported its function and activities.   

2024-01-24T16:27:46-10:00January 13th, 2017|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

90 Niuki Circle / Roland Bowler Residence

Address 90 Niuki Circle, Honolulu, HI 96821 TMK (1) 3-7-002:046 SHPD Historic Site Number N/A Download Nomination Form  The Bowler Residence is a single story, single wall, modern style house with a concrete slab foundation and stained, 12” wide redwood tongue and groove walls. The walls are braced by a pair of beveled girts, with the lower one being 43” above the foundation. Its low pitched, aluminum steel alloy shingled, intersecting hipped roofs are overhanging with open eaves and exposed rafter tails. The metal shingles were designed to resemble shake shingles. The Bowler Residence is significant on the local level under criterion C, as a good example of a house built in Honolulu during the early 1950s in a modern style. The house is also significant at the local level under criterion A for its associations with the development of Niu peninsula as a residential neighborhood. It is one of only three houses fronting the ocean that remain from the neighborhood’s original development. 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.

2017-04-21T01:01:03-10:00January 13th, 2017|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

1038 Mokulua Drive / Heaton L. & Caroline Cooke Wrenn Beach House

Address 1038 Mokulua Drive, Kailua, HI 96734 TMK (1) 4-3-006:096 SHPD Historic Site Number N/A Download Nomination Form The Heaton L. and Caroline Cooke Wrenn beach house is situated on the beach at Lanikai, a residential neighborhood in Kailua. There are two houses on the property, a non-contributing two story house constructed in 1999 is on the right side of the property, and the two story historic beach cottage is on the left, when looking towards the ocean. The house is plantation modern in style with a composition shingle, hip roof with overhanging eaves and exposed rafter tails. It sits on a poured in place concrete foundation, and is of single wall construction with tongue and groove walls, with the second story projecting beyond the first. The cantilevered second story features stylized modillion-like brackets. The Heaton L. and Caroline Cooke Wrenn beach cottage is significant on the local level under criterion A for its associations with the development of Lanikai and is also significant at the local level under criterion C as a good example of a plantation modern style house designed during the 1930s in Hawaii. 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.

2017-04-21T01:01:03-10:00January 13th, 2017|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

2839 Oahu Avenue / Rudolph & Viola Benz Investment Property

Address 2839 Oahu Avenue, Honolulu, HI 96822 TMK (1) 2-9-020:050 SHPD Historic Site Number N/A Download Nomination Form The Benz rental house, sited on a flat lot in Manoa Valley, is a one story, Craftsman Bungalow style house set on a lava rock and post and pier foundation. This house is  significant on the local level under criterion C, as a good example of a bungalow style house built in Honolulu during the 1920s. The house exemplifies this style with its front facing gable roofs, side gable, overhanging eaves and exposed rafter tails. In addition the house has an asymmetrical floor plan and the exterior walls are clad with 4 inch wide wooden clapboards. 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: |
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