Historic Properties

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.

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.

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.

Address 34 Kaapuni Dr, Kailua, HI 96734 TMK 230370060000 SHPD Historic Site Number N/A Abstract The Carlos and Altha Panfiglio Residence is located on a beach front property in a residential neighborhood in Kailua. The house is significant under Criterion C as an outstanding example of prominent Honolulu architect Alfred Preis’s residential work in the early 1950s. Constructed in 1952, the home is rendered in a modern Hawaiian style typical of Preis’s work with its fine attention to detail, flowing indoor-outdoor relationships, numerous built-in pieces, and emphasis on clean, modern lines, a multiplicity of textures, and dramatic spaces. Superb design examples include the dramatically long pergola covered walkway with its distinctive tile paving, a floating ceiling transcending the living room-dining room partition wall and the natural colored fluted walls, recessed ceiling, concealed door and pergola ceiling element in the entry hall.

Address 2895 Komaia Pl, Honolulu, HI 96822 TMK 290170320000 SHPD Historic Site Number N/A Abstract The Charles E. Meyer Residence built in 1951 and designed by architect Phillip Fisk, is situated in a quiet residential neighborhood in Mānoa. The Meyer Residence is significant under Criterion C for its Modern style, including the use of indirect lighting in the living rooms of the main and lower floors, the kitchen’s rectangular and square inset ceiling lights, horizontal panes in the downstairs’ living room’s door, use of extruded mortar joints in the driveway planter’s wall, and the cantilevered upper story. The house integrates many Hawai‘i-inspired elements including the lava rock fireplace, mail box post, and foundation; the lanai running across its façade; and the extensive use of double hung and sliding windows, canec ceilings and louvered doors.

Address 2244 Round Top Dr, Honolulu, HI 96822 TMK 250060220000 SHPD Historic Site Number N/A Abstract Constructed in 1973 by architect W.B. “Chip” Detweiler as his private residence in a quiet residential neighborhood on Makiki Heights, the Detweiler Residence is an exemplary model of Tropical Modernism, emphasizing structural innovation, form and function to create a space that gracefully integrates with its setting and environment. The three-story house sits on a concrete foundation, has concrete stucco block walls and a flat roof of standing seam metal. The verticality of the white, masonry house is broken by bands of unpainted, horizontal lap siding found above the garage door, in the cantilevered third story balcony’s balustrade and the overhanging, flat roof’s fascia. The Detweiler Residence is significant under Criterion C.